Sentence examples for Collective preoccupation from inspiring English sources

It would probably be wise for our collective preoccupation with the worth of startup founders to end, but it's unlikely to happen, because individual wealth has become an important way in which we keep score.

This collective preoccupation to go from "unimproved" to "improved" is exemplified in the ugly duckling to swan transformation reality shows that are incredibly popular in the country.

They spread information quickly, sometimes before the mass media do, and their ricocheting bursts of text and links become an instant record of Americans' collective preoccupations.

To the extent the civic turn denotes a 'retreat from multiculturalism' – a shift in focus from concerns of the collective identities of immigrants to a preoccupation of defining and strengthening the host national identity – then policy developments in Sweden, at least since the early 1990s, may well be portrayed as part of this trend (Borevi, 2010, 2014).

When we learn to read the manual of health instead of our current preoccupation with disease, our collective reach toward 100 healthy years will be realized.

I don't think Australian cinema or the Australian psyche is uniquely dark in its preoccupations or it's collective guilt.

Indeed, by the mid-eighties … [Adam] Zagajewski had challenged his compatriots preoccupation with poetry as a form of collective resistance.

One of his notable recent preoccupations was the Bajofondo Tango Club, a collective that blended the cafe music of his homeland (Argentina) with the club music of his hometown (Los Angeles).

Intense internal pressures make them behave like inefficient monopolists whose preoccupation with the division of the spoils of collective bargaining always diverts them from the expansion of the economic pie.

It's fair to say that the Korean War does not occupy a pivotal place in the collective American memory, certainly not compared with the sweep of World War II or the national preoccupation with the war in Vietnam.

Identity has been a strong preoccupation of philosophy and social science enquiry for hundreds of years, both individual identity and collective or group identity.