Sentence examples for preoccupation what from inspiring English sources

Werner Herzog's great subject, or rather his dominant preoccupation — what paranoia was to Alfred Hitchcock or violence to Sam Peckinpah — is mania.

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.

Her preoccupations — what's wrong with other people, what's wrong (and right) with New York — are the same, but since those days AIDS has destroyed much of her cohort, and much of what she valued about the city.

That preoccupation is what I try to find out.

But his preoccupation with what you might call the mystery of the feminine remains the same.

"There's been an intense preoccupation with what it means to be British from the 17th century onwards".

Like them, he is interested in light, to which he adds a preoccupation with what he calls "the intersection of nature, science, and human perception".

She was self-aware and self-mocking — game enough to see the funny side of Colleen's preoccupation with what she looks like".

The idea started with a preoccupation with what Barnes calls "data shadows", part of the digital footprint we all leave behind.

She and Mr. Fischl share a preoccupation with what they call otherness, which they define as a subtle combination of alienation and recognition.

Like the other Archaic poets mentioned, Solon wrote for symposia, and his more frivolous poetry should not be lost sight of in preoccupation with what he wrote in self-justification.