Sentence examples for preoccupation is not from inspiring English sources

Coates's preoccupation is not with saving the soul of America.

Mr. Sehgal's preoccupation is not the invention and aesthetics of the actual movement.

From the beginning, Rodriguez's preoccupation was not with team, it was with self.

He was a social critic and parodist, and I'm not sure his interest in the manners of an earlier generation — the subtext of so much of his work as to be a preoccupation — wasn't partly to do with armoring himself against any kind of embarrassment.

Its dense texture, thicket of literary references, medical terms, mordant jokes, eccentric images and myriad preoccupations are not there simply to drive you crazy (though they might) or show you how smart Mr. Kaufman is, or make you feel clever for catching its allusions.

Which wouldn't be a problem -- it's what the novel is about, partly -- if only the preoccupations weren't so prosaic.

To the degree that she will consent to define herself — and escaping definition is one of her central preoccupations — it is not only as a writer who doesn't traffic in big ideas but as one with a profound antipathy toward intellectualizing.

But a preoccupation with diagnosis is not confined to those within the system.

Riba is plaintive, intelligent and unpredictable enough to demand our full attention, and his preoccupation with literature is not a gimmick or distraction; it is the whole story.

The Italian-American preoccupation with food is not only a long-standing cultural tradition but also a prescient sign of the group's endurance.

Excitement is at a minimum in Mr. Leonhardt's playing, but then our preoccupation with excitement is not one of music's admirable traits.