Sentence examples for mounting preoccupation from inspiring English sources
For Rhoda existence appears nearly unbearable, which fuels both her home invasion — she tells John she works for a cleaning service — and her mounting preoccupation with the strange planet.
"We're in, but not in all the way," says Yasemin Kural, who works in public relations.Related items Turkey's government: Courtroom dramaApr 3rd 2008 Turkey: The secularists fight backApr 3rd 2008 Minorities in Germany: The integration dilemmaJul 19th 2007 Germany and its Muslims: Soft on sufferingMar 29th 2007How Germany deals with its minorities is a mounting preoccupation for its leaders.
Rage was deliberately churned up with supplementary drawings reportedly created by some radical Muslim leaders and presented along with the original group of 12. One, crudely offensive even to this infidel's eyes, replaced the political cartoonist's gibes with the preoccupations of a pornographer, showing a dog mounting the Prophet.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a British artist who paints portraits of imaginary people, leaving it to the viewer to supply the biographical back stories – and whose first solo museum exhibition, "Any Number of Preoccupations," was a hit when it was mounted at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2010 – is one of four finalists for the 2013 Turner Prize.
