Sentence examples for persistent preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Health anxiety is the persistent preoccupation with having a serious illness.
Not all this year's reads are so parochial, and the unsettled global stage proves a persistent preoccupation.
Back arched and pelvis pushed, his torso slumped into an almost jazzy syncopation, emphasizing Balanchine's persistent preoccupation with American dance and music idioms.
In a photo by David Alekhuogie, the bright-yellow cover of the Roy Ayers album "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" glows in the midst of the cold steel of a science lab, like a private but persistent preoccupation.
Sample symptoms include lack of social or emotional reciprocity, stereotyped and repetitive use of language or idiosyncratic language, and persistent preoccupation with unusual objects.
Of course, the flag waving is less likely an endorsement of Hamas than a symbol of the Far Left's persistent preoccupation with Israel's reluctant occupation of lands it captured in its defensive struggle for existential survival during 1967's Six Day War.
These kinds of allergies play upon two of our most persistent preoccupations -- health and food.
"Who if not I, then, is Amphitryon?" As that line suggests, Banville is back to one of the persistent preoccupations of his recent fiction: the elusive and unstable nature of identity.
Moreover, the study reveals that a fire beacon system was already in place by the Early Iron period, and its continuation during the Urartian period betrays a preoccupation with persistent conflict in this ancient landscape of warfare.
This could manifest itself in the preoccupation with persistent delusional themes, seen in many patients with schizophrenia.
"Obviously across his work there's a lot of interest and engagement with things that are forgot or repressed or buried," explains Simpson, obliquely referring to persistent interpretations of Kelley's preoccupation with tainted childhood and the allure of the monstrous with the artist's own abuse at the hand of his father.
