Meanings of central preoccupation in English

A central preoccupation of the book is the destruction of innocence.

Dancing with his habitual agility amid the gargoyles, he has religion as a central preoccupation.

This is a deeply political question and it is a central preoccupation of politicians and policy-makers.

Thus Joaquín Monegro, like every other main character in his work, appears preoccupied by the same central preoccupation of Unamuno.

Conversion became a central preoccupation, a violent, tortured drama where the 'sinner' and his spiritual director 'wrestled' for his soul.

The central preoccupation of Hahn's later writing years was zoos and monkeys and wildlife preservation, and particularly primate intelligence and animal communication.

Oates takes bleak relish in keeping the reader guessing, while deftly interrogating the novel's central preoccupation: the voluntary shrinking of the human mind.

But the celebration of wonder and of love in the face of fear and terror, the beauty in simple things, become his central preoccupation.

And the possibility of British withdrawal -"Brexit" -has become a central preoccupation of Irish diplomacy, some say one of its greatest challenges yet.