Sentence examples for singular preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Postapocalyptic times, and their singular preoccupation with survival, look easy compared with this journey to the end game.
Nevertheless, a singular preoccupation with game is widely considered U.C.B.'s main contribution to the pedagogy of improv.
Her work has changed over the years — a singular preoccupation with formal experimentation giving way to include an interest in storytelling.
"The weight of the past has sometimes been more present than the present itself," the author Enrique Krauze once wrote of Mexicans' singular preoccupation with history's legacy, the crucible of conquest and colonialism, reform and revolution that forged their modern outlook.
Theirs is a singular preoccupation with Israel.
A search for the Theory of Everything has been as much a feature of biological research as it has been a singular preoccupation of theoretical physicists.
Similarly, Kierkegaard saw himself as a "singular universal" whose personal preoccupation with himself was transfigured by divine Governance into universal significance.
Consequently, the current preoccupation with autonomy as a singular marker of 'respect for persons' and its pre-eminence among the four bioethical principles is unwarranted and calls for revision [ 50, 85, 120].
Werner Herzog is a singular film director, drawn to bizarre characters and situations in strange surroundings, with a preoccupation with outsiders who refuse to conform to a limited social structure.
In an influential series of writings, Boolos in particular has shown how the traditional 'class-reduction' of essentially non-singular sentences to singular form can and should be avoided; and Tom McKay has coined the term 'singularism' to denote this exclusive preoccupation with singular reference and distributive predication which is a hallmark of the standard first-order predicate calculus.
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