Sentence examples for Primary preoccupations from inspiring English sources

The conference drew me back to literature's first principles and primary preoccupations.

With seeming immunity from prosecution, supporting organised crime seems to have become one of the primary preoccupations of North Korea's beleaguered embassies.

Because interstate warfare or foreign conquests were primary preoccupations of Mesopotamian rulers, it is understandable that in most periods a certain class of artworks was dedicated simply to the glorification of their military prowess.

The primary preoccupations of an unlikely political wife.

In fact, one of the primary preoccupations when using the BT is the stress field that develops near the loading points.

When he was done writing that review Brooks went back to one of his primary preoccupations, which is pushing for Medicare cuts.

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.

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