Sentence examples for preoccupation we have from inspiring English sources

At a tangent is the preoccupation we have with confidentiality, and although I absolutely respect and treasure it, I'd love to understand why we put a cordon of confidentiality around private life.

Secondly, the context and use of emoticons seems to typify a cultural trend that is at the very least rather annoying: a refusal of adults to act like grown-ups, and a mindless desire to endlessly, and uncritically, adopt all that is youth-related, and to never out-grow the preoccupation we have stolen from teenagers – that with being "cool".

We share Hitler's planet and some of his preoccupations; we have perhaps changed less than we think.

It is no surprise, then, that we have a preoccupation with peeping through the keyhole into the lives of others.

There is, it is true, more public world than private here (and very little on Pepys's preoccupation with women), but then we have the diaries for that.

"I have a real concern that given our preoccupation in Iraq, we've not devoted sufficient troops and funding to Afghanistan to ensure success in that mission," Mr. Skelton said.

It's a line that conveys both the loopy contrarian logic and the conflicted preoccupation with young girls that we've come to associate with the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and it appears early in "Still She Haunts Me," Katie Roiphe's first novel.

I think we've leaned away from preoccupations with greatness and this is a relief to me.

Ten years ago, this preoccupation would have seemed very odd.

The preoccupation should have been the health and welfare of North, not the absolution of others.

To Wilson's readers, this preoccupation would not have seemed out of place.