Sentence examples for its preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Much of Michelle Huneven's second novel (her first was "Round Rock") meets these criteria; offbeat and vigorously written, it is engrossing in part because it wears its preoccupation with the paranormal so lightly.

"Faithless" runs two and a half brooding hours; it is vintage Bergman in its preoccupation with the interior life of its characters and the harrowing consequences of their often inscrutable actions.

Its preoccupation with internal problems helped spare it the worst of America's subprime-mortgage fiasco.

Given the unusual light-filled setting of Happy Days and its preoccupation with the element of fire, it was the brightness of the colours of the Ernst painting, especially its fiery reds, that struck me.

Now that "The Conversation" has become available on DVD in a special edition from Paramount, it is not only looking better than ever; it is also just as topical because of its preoccupation with technology and privacy.

It's high time the education system ended its preoccupation with social class and started treating all pupils the same, as young people with the kinds of ambition that Miliband so rightly invokes, regardless of where they come from.

But while Shinn's play has a passionate sincerity and demolishes the myth that we live in a cosy new world of sexual tolerance, it can't help feeling a bit cloistered in its preoccupation with the politics of persecution.

With its preoccupation with older characters undergoing drastic life changes, it isn't a million miles away from Amazon's brilliant Transparent, and while it lacks that show's acuity, Fonda and Tomlin make a massively engaging central pair.

He rejected its preoccupation with "small-minded rules".

Mexico's conservative Catholic Church also expressed its preoccupation.

But with its preoccupation with liberty, the museum has also given American Jewish history a spin.