Sentence examples for ongoing preoccupation with from inspiring English sources

Cavaliere died in 2012 from ovarian cancer, the same type that killed her mother three years earlier, and her ongoing preoccupation with grief made it all the more poignant.

Similarly, Barnes's ongoing preoccupation with the unreliability of history is muted: we know that Shostakovich was forced to parrot the party line, but there is little doubt about his true views on the regime.

But a week before her death, Mayer wrote an essay, published posthumously online in Tablet Magazine and other outlets, which revealed an ongoing preoccupation with the community from which she had come, and the difficulties she had faced in leaving it.

Ansari has an ongoing preoccupation with "douchebag bro culture", and the jocks he says got "an unfair advantage" when he was growing up because texting and social media didn't exist to show potential girlfriends how witty and smart you could be.

And given that the U.S. 'pivot to Asia' looks less and less robust by the month (given its ongoing preoccupation with the Middle East), the PRC has achieved a new level of confidence in its own abilities and ambitions in the region.

In the present context PCi activity could reflect the ongoing preoccupation with detecting, allocating attention to, and responding to the left-ear deviants.

Since Tim Spall had agreed to be in it by then and he's not what one would call svelte... [Laughter]... it pointed me in the direction where my imagination could get going with things that are an ongoing preoccupation.

The length of my hair is an ongoing preoccupation.

The indelible connection between grief and joy — an ongoing preoccupation of Springsteen's — lies behind every one of the songs, including those written before the attacks.

What could have been an embarrassing misfire hinted at by the movie's misleading trailers is instead a smoothly distilled collaboration that balances Mr. Tatum's heat and charm — and ambitions that are as transparent as Mike's — with Mr. Soderbergh's cool, cinematic intelligence and ongoing preoccupations".

Taking advantage of the Italians' preoccupation with the ongoing Venetian Genoese war, by 1270 Michael's efforts had produced a strong navy of 80 ships, with several Latin privateers sailing under imperial colours.