Sentence examples for had a preoccupation from inspiring English sources

French composers of the early 20th century seem to have had a preoccupation with the sea to rival that of their German predecessors' fondness for writing songs about trees, birdsong, herz and schmerz.

His album "Jíbaro" (Marsalis Music), from 2005, dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with numbers, particularly in the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

In addition to providing a narrative of the events of the morning of 14 December - including details of Lanza's actions after he shot his way into the school building - the report reveals that, during their search of the Lanza home at 36 Yogananda Street in Newtown, investigators recovered digital evidence showing that Adam Lanza had a "preoccupation with mass shootings".

Patton had a preoccupation with bravery, wearing his rank insignia conspicuously in combat, and at one point during World War I rode atop a tank into a German-controlled village seeking to inspire courage in his men.

Authoritarians have a preoccupation with luxury, Ben-Ghiat said.

The Jahai, according to Majid and Burenhult, have a "preoccupation with odor".

Kevin Parker Keighley, W Yorks David Goodhart is not a racist, but he seems to have a preoccupation with race.

It is no surprise, then, that we have a preoccupation with peeping through the keyhole into the lives of others.

The White House insists that the president does not have a preoccupation with Fox News, and that both of the president's recent Fox quips were ad-libbed.

Scientists have a preoccupation with the most energetic and violent events in the cosmos -- galaxy-rending blasts like gamma ray bursts, lesser outbursts like exploding stars, and the mother of all cataclysms, the Big Bang.

People who struggle with anorexia or bulimia generally have a preoccupation with their appearance and sometimes cannot rightly judge if their weight is appropriate.