Sentence examples for showing preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Pope Francis elevated the archbishop of the state capital Morelia to cardinal in January – a move interpreted as the church showing preoccupation with violence in Mexico.

Sharing her sisters' dry humour and Charlotte's violent imagination, Emily diverges from them in making no use of the events of her own life and showing no preoccupation with a spinster's state or a governess's position.

Showing his preoccupation with man's fallen nature, Newman wrote: "Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man".

Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics.

All show a preoccupation with craftsmanship in the 18th-century manner.

Each shows a preoccupation with Byzantine models for figures and faces.

Further studies show this preoccupation to occur in far less extreme circumstances.

Both performers came together in Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 by Schnittke, whose works often show a preoccupation with blending together intensity and lightness.

Occasionally, he shows a preoccupation with details at the expense of sweep, but what he does is consistently vivid and arresting.

Throughout "Offices" Mr. Coen shows a preoccupation with language as a tool of power and obfuscation that, when looked at closely, collapses into meaninglessness.

In particular, students showed a preoccupation with geometrical features of problems and solutions in contrast to the framework-derived importance of geometrical, material and functional features of future artefacts.