Sentence examples for our shared preoccupation from inspiring English sources

My friend Catherine Menninger sent me a note the other day that began: "The days are long past when the poison of DU (depleted uranium) was our shared preoccupation.

And wasn't the return of the repressed a shared preoccupation in some of their jests?

Through Jan . 21Works by Christina Ramberg and Victoria Gitman, in these excellent separate shows, are linked by a shared preoccupation with fetishism and women.

Japan is also hoping to sell coastguard seaplanes, perhaps a hint of future co-operation on defence.Behind all this is a shared preoccupation with China.

CHARLIE HUNTER AND SCOTT AMENDOLA Deep groove is a shared preoccupation for Mr. Hunter, a soulful seven-string guitarist, and Mr. Amendola, a versatile drummer.

Davis agrees that as well as satisfying "a craving for upmarket discussion and debate", Today has "a lot of shared preoccupations, and warmth, too".

And we see it in the vocational crisis at the center of "The Marriage Plot," the novel that presents in clearest form the shared preoccupations of the Conversazioni group.

The Liverpudlian protagonists of plays by Lizzie Nunnery and Michael Wynne and David Ireland and Stacey Gregg's Belfast-born narrators call to each other across the Irish Sea with the shared preoccupations of port cities.

The top agenda items for today's White House meeting between President Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are not a surprise; Middle East peace and combating extremism are the shared preoccupations that define U.S.-Egyptian relations.

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.

Is it our shared culture?