Sentence examples for long preoccupation with from inspiring English sources

(His long preoccupation with rocks seemed only to reinforce this rap).

But not as much discomfort as you might expect, given the industry's long preoccupation with youth.

Her long preoccupation with "A Tale of Two Cities" has left Ms. Santoriello something less than the complete Dickens scholar.

The left side holds smooth earth; the right bears the imprint of her hand, marking the start of a long preoccupation with human markings on the landscape.

This traces back to our studio's long preoccupation with embodied interaction.

The actor shares a screenplay credit on the film, and his career-long preoccupation with existential exploration, in his choice of acting roles and in his writing and directing – The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, The Pledge – is very present here.

The show is ostensibly driven by Mr. Kitaj's long-time preoccupation with the Jewish Diaspora.

The court heard he had undergone psychiatric assessments since he was 17, had convictions for possessing weapons, and had a long-standing preoccupation with murder.

Martin Walser's Ohne einander developed the author's long-standing preoccupation with sexual rivalry and the struggle of each against all, combining these themes with a wicked attack on a prominent literary critic.

It was a move that opened the door to both a lifetime of study of the 19th century and an equally long-lasting preoccupation with the problems of the left.

On the other hand, it is a deeply personal work, whose material reflects Adams's long-standing preoccupation with multiple systems of tuning, his fascination with slow-motion formal processes, his love of foggy masses of sound in which many events are unfolding at independent tempos.