Sentence examples for Similar preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Would it fix my brain?" Offill's first novel, "Last Things" (1999), which also told a story of marital abandonment and turmoil, dealt with similar preoccupations.

Obviously, you don't need to be a practising pagan to experience this – the British passion for gardening ties into similar preoccupations, which might be why so many people find paganism amenable when it's explained to them.

Fawwāz Ḥaddād, a Syrian, echoed similar preoccupations in Junūd Allāh ("God's Soldiers"): the religious characters defend, in their own way, a faith threatened by its enemies, pitting a son against his father, whom he sees as misguided.

Mrs. Allonby (René Augesen) indicates a similar preoccupation with her eyes.

Philip Johnson and Winka Dubbeldam, the architects of these new gems, are generations apart in age but bring to their projects a similar preoccupation with faceted geometric shapes.

But while Dollhouse and Orphan Black share a premise and a similar preoccupation with the battle between science and religion, that's where the comparisons should end.

Knorr's reverse puddles share a similar preoccupation with Angeleno car culture as Ed Ruscha's gasoline station paintings of the 1960s, but are less interested in symbolism than the banality of endlessly repeated human activities.

In the treatment of resistance forces in Section 7 of Book 2 Newton shows a similar preoccupation for identifying circumstances in which the net force is exact when composed from forces acting on the parts of the body.

Rodgers, like Martínez, sought to draw on Guardiola's success and implement a similar system in England, but his preoccupation with playing "perfect football" backfired as Rodgers was unwilling to mix things up when it mattered most.

Building 8 is exactly the same as building 14, and its young inhabitants must perhaps have the same preoccupation: to someday acquire a similar cell in one of these purpose-built units around town.

This means that certain preoccupations of plant disease modellers are similar to those of modellers of diseases in human, livestock and wild animal populations.