Sentence examples for mutual preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Here he excels, detailing the panicky mutual preoccupation and the mix of glamour and squalor, exalted passion and petty resentment, that characterize many affairs.

Additional victories were won in the 1894 midterm election, but in 1896 the Populists allowed themselves to be swept into the Democratic cause by their mutual preoccupation with the Free Silver Movement.

Both movies, and others made around the same time that criticize white progressives, such as Dear White People (a 2014 movie that became a show three years later), stem from a mutual preoccupation that bubbled up organically from vastly different filmmakers, making each project seem all the more representative of its moment.

We look at the play through the lenses provided by a series of outsider interpretations that mirror our mutual occupations and preoccupations – philosophy and psychoanalysis – and that shed some light on the question of Shakespeare and Englishness: those of Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville and Heiner Müller.

It's not that there aren't shared preoccupations: mutual incomprehension between children and adults (that often spikes into psychological or physical violence); characters who crave aesthetic fulfillment in a world that can be drab and cruel; and young people who struggle to build meaningful lives in terrible circumstances, and who are set in opposition to blind, stupid, harmful institutions.

That began to change in the 1980's, when investing in general and mutual funds in particular became a popular preoccupation.

In the last few months, mutual fund fees have become something of a preoccupation in Washington.

Another big, new preoccupation?

But Matt Matttt was his preoccupation.

I was mining a preoccupation.

"This was a Conservative preoccupation.