Sentence examples for basic preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, Eric Wesley's exhibition cleverly invokes some of the basic preoccupations of this narrow, conceptualist genre.

Assume that however alien your subject's life has been compared with yours, the same basic preoccupations will have underpinned it: love, money, death and ambition.

Despite this, Kripke's understanding provides a useful lens through which to approach his conclusion – that there is actually no way of fixing meaning unless there is, between those who speak, a shared sense of common purpose that grows out of a) the basic preoccupations of what it is to be a human being and b) the various social enterprises that make up our every day commitments.

"Our basic thrust is away from self-preoccupation," he said.

He teaches both basic and esoteric courses related to his life's preoccupation, which is also the subject of his 5-volume life's work.

Cripta (1937; "Crypt"), considered to include his most important poems, dealt with basic human concerns and revealed in compact, powerful language a preoccupation with time, solitude, and the absurdity of life.

However, the basic issues concerning educational reforms are often clouded over by a preoccupation with unemployment.

The appeal of the hypothesis, and its shocking third option (which I explain in more detail below), is partly that it's a challenge to the basic foundations of our perceptions, but also, paradoxically, that it plugs into some longstanding human preoccupations.

This culture, masquerading as the old IBM's basic beliefs in excellence, customer satisfaction, and respect for the individual, led to a preoccupation with internal procedures rather than an understanding of the changing market," write Tushman and O'Reilly.

But it warns against a preoccupation with pre-job training, which often teaches the wrong skills and misses basic graces (such as time-keeping and not being cheeky to the boss) that many claimants lack.

Beyond its basic theology, which is not new, and not especially unusual, the church has a few more idiosyncratic preoccupations.