Sentence examples for overwhelming preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Iraq - naturally and properly - has been the overwhelming preoccupation.
Queer politics and gay men's mental health became his overwhelming preoccupation, as evidenced in The Garden (1990) and Wittgenstein (1993).
Distressed by most historians' overwhelming preoccupation with the modern world, an unusual coalition of scholars is trying to stage an intellectual coup, urging their colleagues to look up from the relatively recent swirl of bloody conflicts, global financial exchanges and technological wonders and gaze further back, toward humanity's origins.
There is the blending of high and low points of cultural reference; the love of bright color and the broadly brushed renderings of people and of architecture; the expressive, even crude handling of paint and other materials, and finally, what you might call an overwhelming preoccupation with narrative.
Too much of directors' pay comes in annual bonuses paid as share options, he argues, so that their overwhelming preoccupation is to do whatever it takes to keep the share price up – which is personally enriching – rather than grow the company.
That should be the goal even if our overwhelming preoccupation is with preventing spills.
It was an overwhelming red-top preoccupation, and its events fell into the structures of narratology effortlessly.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
The odds are overwhelming that the Wisconsin girls' preoccupation with this character was something like happenstance, but misogyny has been a source of violence against women for centuries.
There are, course, overwhelming ethical reasons for cloaking this diarist in a pseudonym; to hang her youthful menstrual preoccupations around the neck of an older lady would hardly be fair.
