One of these is the strange American preoccupation with more freedom for human beings everywhere.

Now he was looking for two women, the elector thought, a strange preoccupation for a grown man.

It was she who had come into my inside out body and followed it down into madness, calling it out of its strange preoccupation.

She was conscious of his body, its perfume and warmth, and his strange preoccupation.

This was a somewhat strange preoccupation for a young artist in 17th-century Holland, where most artists specialized in secular paintings of everyday life and people.

It seemed to Herb Asher a strange preoccupation for a man so intelligent, but, in the final analysis, it was Tate's problem.

As soon as he got the floor back, he returned to his strange preoccupation:

She would not willingly have told her friend about her drive with Davinoff, given Corina's strange preoccupation.

In other parts of the show, Ms. Bourgeois's strange preoccupation with the hirsute takes on an almost anthropological aspect.

Within a page or two, though, the source of Otter-Tooth's strange preoccupation with cooking pots became somewhat clearer.