Sentence examples for preoccupation in a from inspiring English sources

Would we condemn a similarly frivolous preoccupation in a male leader?

Meiselas jokes about this zombified preoccupation in a photograph taken in Liberty Plaza Park.

The urge to be as different as possible from an annoying parent was the theme of Hagen's previous novel, "The Laments," and it's a surprising preoccupation in a writer who is apparently so traditional, so respectful of his creative forebears.

Hotels were originally conceived as a way to shelter and control strangers — a growing preoccupation in a country whose citizens were becoming among the most mobile people in the world.

Anxious preoccupation in a young woman coping with BC may stem from not knowing if she will still be able to have a child.

As the 20th century dawned, "[p]hilosophers, physicists, poets, and pulp writers all struggled" with ideas about time, an inevitable preoccupation in an age freshly obsessed with thoughts of the future.

The Tate show reveals her preoccupations in a way that is direct, intimate and readable.

Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.

Ever since his earliest days as a writer, more than three decades ago, Jonathan Schell has had an uncanny ability to depict public preoccupations in an arresting manner.

While some of these movies, like "Beaufort," deal with the political and military issues that are a constant preoccupation in Israeli life, others promise a glimpse at other aspects of that country's complex history and present-day reality.

He emphasizes the mustiness of men buried in libraries, scouring ancient texts in their arcane preoccupation, yet, in a shrewd dramatic turn, he doesn't ridicule the amount of blood that gets spilled in such pursuits.