Sentence examples for inner preoccupation from inspiring English sources

If you choose to forgive and are ready to do that, then you set yourself free from the inner preoccupation with the person.

Among the botanical and anthropological observations, one catches glimpses of Sacks's inner life: his preoccupation with dualities, his nearly Victorian sense of modesty, his fascination with the world around him.

Carrie's adoration for fashion, the core group of friends (Mouse, Maggie, and Walt) that make up her inner circle, and the predictable preoccupation with boys further bridge the Diaries to SATC.

One can learn a lot about Gillon from his Pushkin renderings: not just about his literary sensibilities, but about the preoccupations of the inner man.

Introversion was defined as preoccupation with one's inner world at the expense of social interactions and extroversion as a preference for social interplay for living out inner drives (collectively termed libido).

Her ideology is rooted in personal experience and, true to modernism's preoccupation with self-expression, emerges from inner necessity rather than an ideological program.

But the preoccupation now is internal.

When depicting his main characters' inner turmoil, Richardson moves well beyond his hortatory preoccupations.

Preoccupation with sex and truthfulness about the inner life are out of fashion.

But the memoir's essentially religious DNA, the Augustinian preoccupation with bearing written witness to remarkable inner transformations, remained dominant during the sixteen centuries from the "Confessions" to Burroughs's "Running with Scissors".

A frequently mentioned worry with the ideal of authenticity is that the focus on one's own inner feelings and attitudes may breed a self-centered preoccupation with oneself that is anti-social and destructive of altruism and compassion toward others.