Sentence examples for preoccupation with death from inspiring English sources

And then there's the preoccupation with death.

"The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death.

His works have pointed to a preoccupation with death and strange tensions involving religion and Catholicism.

But the preoccupation with death, of course, is the main motif.

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

…attest to a preoccupation with death from the very dawn of human culture in the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age).

Woven through the monologue are barbed allusions to a bitterly competitive relationship with his father, known as Daddy King, as well as dark intimations of mortality in the form of dreams of dead pigeons, references to Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, and an unrelenting preoccupation with the death of a young boy during a nonviolent demonstration involving striking Memphis sanitation workers.

The popular preoccupation with celebrity deaths is virtually unavoidable.

Along with a preoccupation in literature with death and damnation, there appeared a contrasting refinement of expression and sentiment bred of nostalgia for the courtly, chivalric ideal.

For Mirror Cells, a 2016 group exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art that included the artist, McCarthy said, "I'm interested in understanding the human experience and condition, continually coming back to questions and preoccupations with time, death, and reconciling who am I, who are all these people?" In McCarthy's poetry and art, there is genuine soulful, even tender, expression.

The tales in Joyce's only short-story collection are united by a preoccupation with paralysis and death.