Sentence examples for preoccupation was not from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

The political future of the divided island — long the central preoccupation here — was not the main issue in this year's election, which was defined by economic issues.

His new preoccupation was political, not technical.

His preoccupation with self-portraiture was not a passing fancy of youth, nor was it an old man's obsession: it spans his entire career.

But in Anglo-America, while there was some preoccupation with it, it was not formalized until the passage of the General Allotment Act, mid-1880s.

Young women's preoccupation with fashionable clothing was not unexpected since adolescence and young adulthood are developmental stages where most young people are highly sensitive to their outward appearance and the perceptions of their peers about it [ 35].