Sentence examples for ongoing preoccupations from inspiring English sources

One of Pierre's ongoing preoccupations is drawing cartoons, an ideal background for the creator of the foulmouthed but subtle-minded Vernon, whose vision of the adult world that surrounds him is savagely satiric: "This is how I'm being grown up, this is my fucken struggle for learnings and glory.

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".

The volume is most useful as a sort of index of Mr. Updike's evolution as a writer -- as he assimilates the influences of such disparate writers as Hemingway, Nabokov and Thurber, and gradually achieves a voice and fictional geography of his own -- and as a kind of shadow autobiography, tracing the outlines of his life and his ongoing preoccupations.

At issue is how children in a natural social setting (here, a daycare center) track the activities of others for felicitous moments to present objects, and design and position their actions by reference to the ongoing preoccupations, commitments, and distractions of others.

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.

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.

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.

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.