Sentence examples for hint of preoccupation from inspiring English sources

But there was a touch of melancholy, a hint of preoccupation, about his mood.

There is no hint of any preoccupation with big risk-taking or the patience to build institutional skills for the medium term.

There is no hint of the principal preoccupations of the summer of 1974 in New York, which were the rise in the price of gasoline and the collapse of Wall Street.

A pair of studio tracks recorded by the quartet (recording as the Nathan Davis Quartet) give a hint of Young's own musical preoccupations, offering the same instrumentation as Young's forthcoming quartet on "Unity," from late 1965 (and his great last Blue Note effort, "Mother Ship," from 1969), and Young steals the show.

That surely is a result of preoccupation with structure.

Good god — this requires months, even years of preoccupation.

"This possibility is obviously a cause of preoccupation for Israel.

Amount of preoccupation was correlated with the duration of preoccupation (0.47) and disruption to life (0.45); duration of preoccupation with disruption to life (0.42); amount of distress with intensity of distress (0.57).

The items for delusions are: amount of preoccupation, duration of preoccupation, conviction, amount of distress, intensity of distress and disruption of life.

Look for signs of preoccupation with food.

Japan is also hoping to sell coastguard seaplanes, perhaps a hint of future co-operation on defence.Behind all this is a shared preoccupation with China.