Sentence examples for A primary preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Light is also a primary preoccupation of Joseph Reboli, who has a special fondness for the warm glow of afternoon sun and the moment, as in "East End Reflections," with its rain-soaked fields mirroring passing clouds, when changeable skies yield dappled effects.

"What a pity it's not a sin!" says a woman licking an ice cream in a story by Stendhal, reminding us that the search for pleasure – and prohibited pleasure at that – is a primary preoccupation for most people a good deal of the time, even for those trying to hide from it.

In observing a multitude of biographies and funerary inscriptions, Hymes states that officials in the Northern Song era displayed a primary preoccupation with national interests, as they did not intervene in local or central government affairs for the benefit of their local prefecture or county.

In adult intensive care patients, hypoxemia is a primary preoccupation for all clinicians.

Second, Day's description of her time at Ms. in "Ghost Waltz," though the magazine isn't mentioned by name, is ambivalent at best, and ties in with the memoir's other primary preoccupation: a relentless examination of her own anti-Semitism.

The primary preoccupation of the oncology team will usually lay an emphasis on maintaining survival.

And, for me, his primary preoccupation was never more brilliantly realised than in Strangers on a Train, the murder-swap thriller from 1951.

Mr. Godard's primary preoccupation was always with cinema itself.

Its primary preoccupation is preoccupation — devotion, longing, hunger — either for man or God.

But should it have become the primary preoccupation of the World Trade Organisation?

When the primary preoccupation of average Iraqis is when and how they are likely to be killed, we can hardly feel smug as we hand out care packages.