Sentence examples for characteristic preoccupations from inspiring English sources

But for all its modesty of means and narrowness of focus, it demonstrates that Mr. Mann has not shed his characteristic preoccupations.

Their characteristic preoccupations are much in evidence here: characters gratuitously named Dick or Dickie; animals in medical distress; and an almost connoisseurial regard for onanism, scatology and -- how to put it?

The director has made the material his own by winding some of his characteristic preoccupations around the spare, spiky architecture of the book, turning Dahl's tale of woodland derring-do into another melancholy, comical study of the dynamics of a loving, difficult family.

At least one radical Islamist is on record as having been a T. S. Eliot fan — Fathi Shiqaqi, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who was assassinated in 1995 — and it's not hard to see how Eliot's characteristic preoccupations could chime with those of the decline-of-the-West jihadis.

And while it is one thing for a novelist to have characteristic themes and preoccupations, it is another to plough the same furrow.

A preoccupation with religion is characteristic of Persian theatrical performances, and, during the first 10 days of the month of Muḥarram, the martyrdom of ʿAlī's descendants at the hands of the Umayyads is reenacted.

Her face wears that look so characteristic of the elderly, an expression of preoccupation with inalterable things.

Another characteristic of this scene, I suggest, is a preoccupation with becoming machine or at least, experimenting with the human/machine interface.

A characteristic feature of all anxiety disorders in children is the preoccupation with danger.

"The Mandelbaum Gate" (1965), her longest and least characteristic novel, is set in the modern Middle East, but the explicitness of its religious preoccupations ends up making faith into something smaller and less mysterious into a kind of geopolitical phenomenon than it is in her elusive miniatures.

"The Mandelbaum Gate" (1965), her longest and least characteristic novel, is set in the modern Middle East, but the explicitness of its religious preoccupations ends up making faith into something smaller and less mysterious — into a kind of geopolitical phenomenon — than it is in her elusive miniatures.