Sentence examples for private preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Mr. Letterman allows even his private preoccupations to bleed into his on-camera performances.

But whatever his private preoccupations, Faulks is always mindful of the reader.

I'd be interested to hear about anyone else's private preoccupations of this kind; these feelings don't get reported on, but, put together and acted upon, they may make up politics and alter events.

In "The Marvelous Wonderettes," at the Westside Theater, the title characters have an act to perform (with songs like "Stupid Cupid" and "Mr. Sandman"), but they have private preoccupations too: Betty Jean and Cindy Lou are best frenemies, vying over a boy.

Long a passionate environmentalist (he now lives on Maui, where he tends a garden of rare and endangered palm trees), he has written good poems drawing on his beliefs, particularly where the subjects resonate with his private preoccupations with loss and regret.

Arriving as a Vietnamese refugee to San Francisco a quarter of a century ago, I grew up thinking that incense smoke, gongs and Confucian dramas were the private preoccupations of an Asian immigrant.

The most likely answers include private preoccupation with affluence and the excrescent excesses of campaign finance.

Half the pleasure of having a dog, I could see, was storytelling about the dog: she was a screen on which we could all project a private preoccupation.

The best book club discussions include a moment when the author confesses he or she has been found out in some private preoccupation.

But still, it does retain a specific message for women: that, after longer than a century of political ­movements fighting for the right to visibility in public life, the locus of ­participation has shifted to the private preoccupation with individual ­presentation.

Influenced by avant-garde artists like Carolee Schneemann — and long before the exhibitionist likes of "Big Brother" and Lena Dunham Ms. Robertsonon turned her private self and preoccupations into a performance, one shaped by quotidian rituals and obsessions, her cats and crushes, and the food she bought, grew, cooked and consumed, sometimes to her unhappiness.