Sentence examples for public preoccupation from inspiring English sources

And so the Edwards saga continues, a private story turned very public preoccupation.

Rather, they maintain, he failed because his actions, setting aside issues of "personal morality," created an "enormous, consuming public preoccupation".

How else to explain the public preoccupation with Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits and hairstyles and ankles, or the weight given Linda Tripp's or Monica Lewinsky's looks?

Even those who trumpet the importance of the numbers say that the campaigns' public preoccupation with them is an unhealthy distraction for Republicans that, should it drag on much longer, could damage the party's chances in a general election.

In the Arab world, public preoccupation with the bloodshed in the Palestinian territories -- in which more than 120 people have died, all but 8 of them Arabs -- has set off mass demonstrations and open calls for war.

Early in the month, Apple stock fell as much as 5percentt after a CNN-sponsored citizen-journalism site, ireport.com, published a false item from a user reporting that Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive whose health has been a public preoccupation, had been rushed to the emergency room.

The word or phrase of the year is meant to be the one that best reflects public preoccupations.

Ever since his earliest days as a writer, more than three decades ago, Jonathan Schell has had an uncanny ability to depict public preoccupations in an arresting manner.

Bell pointed to the works of Paul Cézanne as those in which formal properties were manifested most purely, and Bell also attacked the public's preoccupation with the anecdotal, narrative, and morally didactic functions of traditional realistic painting.

After all, said Peter Woolley, executive director of the Fairleigh Dickinson Public Mind poll, the public's preoccupation with the war in Iraq and with SARS will eventually shift to the arguments about the budget and the appointments.

This move, and the public's preoccupation with the war, consigned the game to a financial failure; in total Hobbs' benefit raised £657, lower than most benefits and far less than usually raised for cricketers of Hobbs' standing.