Sentence examples for of their preoccupation from inspiring English sources
The Surrealists' enthusiasm for the photographs of Eug? Atget (1857-1927) -- who was not himself a Surrealist -- was another expression of their preoccupation with time.
Because of their preoccupation with form and their ivory-tower aloofness, the Acmeists were regarded with suspicion by the Soviet regime.
In spite of their preoccupation with a search for contemporary forms of poetic expression, poets of the 20th century did not stand aloof from the great issues in Iran's modern history.
The patient is informed that interpersonal difficulties are common in patients with eating disorders, even though many people have limited awareness of them due to the distracting influence of their preoccupation with thoughts about eating, shape and weight.
Modern architects like Walter Gropius saw in these traditional modules of Japanese design an antecedent of their own preoccupation with industrial prefabrication.
"The fact that they went to the comptroller to do something like that was in part a function of their growing preoccupation with Iraq," said Mr. Zakheim, who left the administration in 2004.
In the long run, because of their compulsive preoccupation with linguistic precision and stylistic perfection, a colonization of sorts takes place: language penetrates all the details of that writer's life, it informs and re-shapes it, it proclaims its dominion over her – it takes over.
Reading "Buddhism in the Modern World," a collection of essays edited by David L. McMahan, I was struck by the pragmatic tone of the contributors, their preoccupation with what Mr. McMahan identified as "globalization, gender issues, and the ways in which Buddhism has confronted modernity, science, popular culture and national politics".
He opposed the narrow-mindedness of the religious leaders and their preoccupation with outward forms of worship instead of with the transcendent God.
In Britain, uniquely among democracies, a few tabloid newspapers are at the heart of both; their preoccupations so familiar that the terms "tabloid" and "rightwing tabloid" have become almost synonymous.
He regretted "the waste of time the very compositions you admire may have caused and their preoccupation of the mind which belonged to more sacred or more binding duties... the disquiet and the thoughts of vainglory they have given rise to".
