Sentence examples for strong preoccupation from inspiring English sources

By the time Oe was twenty-six, suicide became a strong preoccupation.

This, he writes, is due to a heritage of Germanic, Nordic and British superstitions and a strong preoccupation with history.

"There is a very strong preoccupation in the company today to understand where the industry is going and get there first," he said.

Because the effect of lithography is much more painterly than either woodcut or intaglio printing, it is natural that the strong preoccupation with pure colour in contemporary art has created a revival of interest in this medium.

He dismissed the techniques of Impressionism with its strong preoccupation with the effect of light, and used new colours, such as Aniline Yellow, and photographs, as an aid.

It rather might reflect strong preoccupation with the child.

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Klos et al. (2012) found self-weighing was related to a strong investment in appearance, preoccupation with body shape, and higher weight among women.

This preoccupation is all stronger because Cameron initially promised to hold his referendum in 2017, a difficult time for the French government because of presidential and parliamentary elections that year.

Rutherford was Baptist with a strong faith and expressed a "deep preoccupation with propriety and morality" in her textbooks, criticizing "authors who openly portrayed sexuality or themselves lived in ways Rutherford found immoral".

It is a constant preoccupation with something that is stronger than myself and stronger than many of us".