Sentence examples for lesser preoccupation from inspiring English sources

For various reasons, football is a much lesser preoccupation in the world's giant countries than elsewhere.Though its presence in Brazil shows that America fields a decent national team, there are a number of other sports its citizens pay greater heed to; in India there is another sport so deep in the national psyche that football seems hardly to get a look in.

To use a marine theme so dominantly is a risky undertaking, fraught with the enticement of cliché: in following a long line of greats from Shakespeare to Melville to Murdoch, Fletcher also adopts the preoccupation of many lesser writers who thrill to the sea's obvious descriptive opportunities.

Even if Pericles is the lesser play, it shares the same preoccupation with time.

In univariate analysis, anxious preoccupation (and to a lesser extent syndromal anxiety) was associated with the use of denial.

The following article will examine Rosmini's work under these titles, which are of perennial relevance and broad enough to embrace more particular themes, such as art, politics, education and marriage, which form a constant preoccupation of many of his lesser works, but can only be mentioned in passing here.

In the sixteen months since he declared his candidacy, Donald Trump's Presidential campaign has elicited comparisons to those of George Wallace and Barry Goldwater, to the hallucinatory paranoia of Joseph McCarthy, to the fascist preoccupations of Charles Lindbergh, and to lesser lights of American demagoguery like Father Coughlin and the Know-Nothings of the nineteenth century.

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.

Another big, new preoccupation?

"This was a Conservative preoccupation.

Joblessness remains the main preoccupation.

But Matt Matttt was his preoccupation.