| This non-stop preoccupation with health matters is terribly boring, I'm afraid. |
| Jian's preoccupation with Mr. Yang's ravings, though, is not without self-interest. |
| He compares the preoccupation with the extremes of the Jacobeans to the extremes of recent playwrights. |
| Alongside the need for patriotic resistance, the preoccupations of contemporary politics are calculated to reanimate Tory instincts. |
| Howard has a bent for rebellion and grand causal schemes and shares that and other preoccupations with his grandparents. |
| I chuckled to myself as my morbid preoccupations melted away, replaced by a deep joy. |
