Sentence examples for As preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, certain motifs emerge -- desolate landscapes, displacement, the military, enforced silence -- as well as preoccupations with history, literature, classical music and European painting.

"The waiting, the questioning, the equivocating, the bafflement, the absurdity" — Perl counts these as preoccupations the artist and Samuel Beckett shared, and the poor souls whose fate it is to wait for Godot seem not all that different from the cast of Watteau's bewildering fêtes champêtres.

The severity of core features such as preoccupations with body image, weight, eating and exercising predicts greater resistance to treatment.

Both extremes have in common certain core autistic features, such as preoccupation with detail, obsessional interests and difficulties in understanding another person's perspective.

Introversion was defined as preoccupation with one's inner world at the expense of social interactions and extroversion as a preference for social interplay for living out inner drives (collectively termed libido).

Restricted behavior is limited in focus, interest, or activity, such as preoccupation with a single television program, toy or game.

Evidence suggests, however, that retention tends to atrophy across the span of an average medical course and into the early postgraduate years, as preoccupation with clinical medicine predominates.

She casts aside youthful preoccupations, as well as her virginity.

"Etched in their individual works are the intimate contexts that motivate their creative preoccupations, as well as the internationalism of their individual practices.

Theirs can come across as stilted and willed, less recognizable as the workings of memory than as the preoccupations of a peculiar social class.

The result is a collection that has a wonderful coherence and that reflects as much my preoccupations as it does Matthew Shenoda's and it is the better for it.