Sentence examples for such preoccupation from inspiring English sources

He said the term commonly applied to such preoccupation is "inattention blindness," meaning a person can be looking at an object but fail to register it or process what it is.

Such preoccupation with the vengeful dead was illuminated by the publication in 1993 of a remarkable mid-5th-century law from Selinus in western Sicily, which mentions the Eumenides and gives Zeus the obviously related but hitherto unattested cult title Zeus Eumenes.

Such preoccupation with individual performances seems to smack against the image of Japan as a group society, and that topsy-turviness is not lost on Andrew Gordon, a professor of Japanese history at Harvard and author of a book on Matsuzaka.

Many such preoccupations turn up in postwar American writing.

Another win should do it for them here but such preoccupations represent the consequences of a disappointing season.

Such preoccupations were prompted by Wednesday's chamber concert, held at LSO St Luke's and conducted by Adams.

Such preoccupations come to the fore in the essay "Wheels Up," in which Crosley watches a woman in a wheelchair commit multiple acts of incivility.

Such preoccupations were sufficient for fashionable minds in a nation concerned with foreign affairs and public scandals but were not wholly satisfactory later, when the individual citizen withdrew into himself to search for fulfillment through jogging or cuisine minceur.

Such preoccupations have led to Egoyan being pigeon-holed by some critics as a rarefied, cerebral film-maker, more interested in the theory of vision than narrative or character.

Later in the book, Olds records her partner's exasperated reaction to such preoccupations: " 'You're sixty something years old,' he exclaims, 'and still / writing about the first time you got laid!' " I mentioned that comment to Olds when we met on a recent weekday afternoon.

As to Havel's "idealism" – if that is what one must call serious ecological concern, an abjuring of narrow nationalism and materialism, and an eye on what the market's "hidden hand" is actually up to or capable of – he left us with some reason, in these dangerous early years of the new millennium, to think that the "realist" critique of such preoccupations was itself anachronistic.