Sentence examples for preoccupation really from inspiring English sources

What purpose is served by this spreading fascination — this compulsive preoccupation, really — with transactions instead of actions and with negotiating maneuvers instead of outcomes?

"I think it's a preoccupation with life really," he said.

But instead, we see a bizarre preoccupation -- no, really, an obsession -- with cutting federal benefits.

While this biography cites some of Mr. Addams's most ghoulish preoccupations, it never really grasps them and clings more easily to the banal.

"That sounds like a really elitist preoccupation to many people, but it's absolutely not.

But beyond the novel and the books and the internet controversies and the House of Lords and television and all the rest, Greenfield's really big preoccupation is finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

Or, really, Harnwell's preoccupation.

Although the question "Why are we here?" is much trumpeted as a human preoccupation, what most of us really want to know is "Why are they here?" And if "they" are nonhuman (the presence of other people remains a complete mystery), science is pretty good at coming up with answers.

So, we should have had a recession — or, since we actually had one, a much longer and deeper recession — to "clean up" Wall Street's excesses; and if Wall Street went on to engage in much bigger excesses, well, boys will be boys, and it's really that foolish preoccupation with full employment that deserves the blame.

You don't really care what the preoccupations are, you just want to be with this voice.

Vanessa Bell adored her children but felt she couldn't really discuss her maternal preoccupations with any of her contemporaries.