Sentence examples for exclusive preoccupation from inspiring English sources

The poverty is part of the whole combination of elements that this film deals with but it's not an exclusive preoccupation or riff of mine, especially.

Heavy taxes drove many cultivators off the land; and the government's exclusive preoccupation with Europe resulted in local revolts in eastern Anatolia and among the Arab tribes of Syria and Iraq.

It seems quaint now to recall that the Schlesingers, pere et fils, were so recently struggling to liberate historical narrative from its once exclusive preoccupation with party politics, war and diplomacy.

The creation of new, authentic forms, the striking of the "noble note", as he put it, of true architecture, "that can modify the consciousness of the user and the passerby" was by this time his exclusive preoccupation.

The whole "new-era" and "blue-chip" madness derived from this exclusive preoccupation with the earnings trend.

In an influential series of writings, Boolos in particular has shown how the traditional 'class-reduction' of essentially non-singular sentences to singular form can and should be avoided; and Tom McKay has coined the term 'singularism' to denote this exclusive preoccupation with singular reference and distributive predication which is a hallmark of the standard first-order predicate calculus.

Burke, however, could not think in terms of an academic historiography, still less one that would be the exclusive intellectual preoccupation of its exponents: neither of these existed in his time.

The show also seeks to correct the misconception that Renaissance portraits were the exclusive invention and preoccupation of artists in the south of Europe, especially Italy.

Even so, they provide a starting place if we want to free ourselves from an exclusive, almost instinctive, preoccupation with a film's plot and move on to a more general appreciation of its visual totality.

This is not a preoccupation exclusive to the Life Sciences.

In a new chapter of her autobiography, My Story, and an exclusive interview with Guardian Australia, the former Labor prime minister contends that the media and Australia's preoccupation with leadership destabilisation contribute to politicians' difficulties in arguing for increasingly necessary policy changes.