Sentence examples for preoccupation only from inspiring English sources

A portrait of society that was related to reality, that sought to represent real life, was the preoccupation only of traditional novelists.

The press is an essential ingredient of scandal and the media's preoccupations only ever approximate those of the public.

Thursday, January 29th The extent to which we've gone undetected on the Island is attributable in large part to The Others' preoccupation not only with themselves but with what we've theorized is the fulfillment of some cosmic mandate to enter numbers or characters into their BlackBerrys at strictly designated times, no matter what other activity they happen to be engaged in.

His work reveals an intense preoccupation not only with contemporary Paraguay but with its history, looking back to the beginning of the 19th century and the rule of Dr. Gaspar de Francia (whose life is the focus of Yo, el Supremo).

This preoccupation not only charged the act of reading and writing with unusual significance but also produced, in To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931)—perhaps her most inventive and complex novel and Between the Acts (1941), her most sombre and moving work, some of the most daring fiction produced in the 20th century.

This is the only story of mine that has religion as a central preoccupation, but it does crop up in other stories from time to time.

Ira's Jewishness is the least of his employees' preoccupations; the only employee who mentions it is an older white immigrant, and a black co-worker teases her for doing it.

Mobility is not only at the heart of my preoccupations, but will also be at the very heart of our fight against air pollution.

This same narrator evinces a preoccupation with death — only natural, on an album called "Widow City".

This regime's only preoccupation is preventing another Romania, and they keep finding dummies to give them money".

The trans pop-culture preoccupation has been only loosely connected to advances in social policy, sometimes dishearteningly so.