Sentence examples for that preoccupied her from inspiring English sources

It was another theft that preoccupied her, however, as the building blotted out her former view of the sky from work.

Robinson's personal and critical essays expand the themes that preoccupied her celebrated novels — "Housekeeping," "Gilead" and "Home" — addressing social fragmentation, the role of generosity in Christian faith, and the nature of individualism and the myth of the American West.

"The sorts of things that preoccupied her -- it was the 1930's, and there was lots of concern about the rise of Fascism and poverty -- these were emotionally engaging subjects," he said.

In this case, it seems clear the theme is one that preoccupied her in the making of the Rolex Learning Center, a university building in which there are no walls, just an undulating landscape intended to promote chance meetings between students and disciplines.

Through her novels, short stories, poems and essays, she is outspoken about racism, sexism and other subjects that preoccupy her thoughts.

But it is the threat of violence that preoccupies her most.

The British writer, who turned 80 in 2013, meditates on several subjects that have preoccupied her fiction (memory, history, social change) and some more suitable to nonfiction: books that have shaped her life, a few particulars of that life, and six objects — including the eponymous dancing fish and ammonites — that reveal something important about their owner.

Recently, instead of the diaphanous works on fabric that had preoccupied her for years, Ms. Alvarez began what she laughingly calls "my Monster Series".

Called "Stone Ihiga, Ms. Mutuu's performance, her first live work, finds its start in a question that has preoccupied her for years: How does it feel to be a woman sentenced to death by stoning?

For instance, in the book The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice (1980), completed over four years, she chronicled the torture and murder of Indianapolis teenager Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski in 1965 that had preoccupied her for 14 years.

In a short wall text, Ms. Carey lays bare the sorrow that has evidently preoccupied her for years.