Sentence examples for whose preoccupation from inspiring English sources

The Islamic revolution brought Iran a centralized economy hobbled by economic sanctions and ruling mullahs whose preoccupation with things divine meant not worrying about things like customer satisfaction.

Throughout the 1920s Marsh studied at the Art Students League of New York under such artists as John Sloan, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and George Luks, whose preoccupation with modern urban life also influenced him.

Ms. Hart's earlier show, "Shells," which she wrote with Nick Chase, involved the love life of a character named Michelle Hoffman, a self-absorbed woman whose preoccupation with one particular date she had bordered on obsession.

It's a perceptive assessment – at least of Cohle in 1995, a man whose preoccupation with the Lange case seems to stretch beyond mere detective work and into some deep, tortured investigation of the human condition itself.

This atmosphere is oddly suited to a writer like Harvey, whose preoccupation with play and formal reversals is the lighter, kinder side of the muteness that proceeds from horror.

That Trump, whose preoccupation with, say, Hillary Clinton seems so clearly a placeholder for some other hurt, is captivated by the tape as a metonym for something worse, something infinitely more degrading that the Russians have on him?

Next time, she'd be better off dwelling on characters whose preoccupations elicit more respect.

By Mark Singer Michael Mandiberg, an artist whose preoccupations merge digital information with visual representation, has a lot going on.

"Consolation" reads like a novel whose preoccupations have been nurtured and earned.

Parr is interested in Englishness, and eccentricity, and in people whose preoccupations create a world of their own.

Well, not so much, really — an ill-assorted cluster of characters whose preoccupations largely involve indulgences of the body, in particular, sex and drink.