Sentence examples for morbid preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Brooding is a powerful emotional response, taking the form of morbid preoccupation and a sense of foreboding.

"They combine a morbid preoccupation with the public with a devastatingly low opinion of the public mentality and moral character".

Wallander's morbid preoccupation with human suffering — essentially with how civilizations come to lose their values — carries a cost, however, one with Shakespearian overtones.

Their woes are the latest "morbid preoccupation" of subprime investors, says Michael Youngblood, an analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey.Other squabbles are adding to the drama.

The eating disorders, anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED), manifest through distorted or chaotic eating and in the case of AN and BN are characterised by a morbid preoccupation with weight and shape.

I like this story because it is illuminates Assange's background as a hacker, his morbid preoccupation with coercion, his interest in technology as a "force-multiplier" for activism, his distrust of all human agency, and his brilliance and level strangeness.

Through mixing Bateman's mundane daily activities with his brutal homicides, American Psycho uncomfortably closes the gap between the psychotic cultural aspects of the US – its wealth fixation, gun obsession, overseas militarism, increasing military fetishism at home – and that of the morbid, depressive preoccupations of the serial killer.

Mr. Morris said he likes shopping at the Paris taxidermy store Deyrolle, although it's hard not to see the animal heads as totems of his preoccupation with the morbid.

The shepherd's wife has been told by the Manor lady not to let the children dwell on morbid subjects, and she rather worries about their preoccupation.

This approach led to the substance of Kierkegaard's thinking being suppressed by what became a morbid interest in Kierkegaard's personal life, such as a preoccupation with Kierkegaard's relationship to Regine Olsen and then reading "The Diary of a Seducer" or key parts of Fear and Trembling as an expression of this event.

If this morbid exchange is indicative of Shriver's illusionless candor, it also points toward another one of her abiding preoccupations: the counterfactual.