Sentence examples for kind of preoccupation from inspiring English sources

As ever in detailing this kind of preoccupation, Baker flirts outrageously with smugness and sentimentality.

And yet, even in 1982, when "Late Night with David Letterman" premièred, he presaged something else, an obsession with what was authentic, the kind of preoccupation that would dominate the nineties, inflecting figures like David Foster Wallace and Kurt Cobain, famous men who were desperate for rock-star fame and then flamboyantly and publicly hated the stuff once they got it.

The way things are going, with eating out here becoming the kind of preoccupation it already is in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore, they may one day call Ho Chi Minh City the Paris of the Orient because of the quality of its restaurants.

It took me a while to realize that every kind of artistic preoccupation had its own conditions and conventions.

In fact, if we had lived just over a hundred years ago, a well-cushioned body would be the ideal to which we would be encouraged to aspire, though probably fewer of us would have developed the kind of intense preoccupation with physical perfection that women experience today because back then people were not bombarded day-in-and-day-out with mass media images of the ideal.

Is this new, nostalgic preoccupation a kind of backlash, I wonder, against the unrelenting edginess and modernity of the Roxy days.

Mr. Baxter said the book grew out of a general preoccupation with "a kind of American loneliness that will not go away," and in particular with the "problem of underparented children".

In the work of other writers, such as Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, and Marcel Proust, each following his own distinctive path, a different kind of realism emerged, focused on a preoccupation with the analysis of individual action, motivation, and desire as well as a fascination with form.

Though the novel is a kind of erotic thriller, it has philosophical preoccupations, a feature emphasized by the Native American Anishinabek stories that punctuate it.

Swallows and Amazons was always treasured for its innocent charm, and maybe Golding's Lord of the Flies made this kind of story unfashionable even before our modern preoccupation with the danger that unaccompanied children can be in.

He -- he had some kind [of] desperate preoccupation of that type".