Sentence examples for chief preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Removing the disturbance became one of Mancusi-Ungaro's chief preoccupations during her time at the Menil.

The chief preoccupations of this character, often the narrator, are objects, women, and music.

One of the chief preoccupations of the presidents of this province, scarred as it was by war and starvation, was to repopulate it.

The codification of law was one of Bentham's chief preoccupations, and it was his ambition to be allowed to prepare a code of laws for his own or some foreign country.

Mr. Adair's story, of an American exchange student who falls under the spell first of the Cinémathèque Française and then of two of the cinephiles he meets there, is well suited to Mr. Bertolucci's chief preoccupations.

Although the fierce ease with which capitalism husks humanity is one of his main concerns, though debris (emotional and material) is one of his chief preoccupations, and though rupture is the texture that most attracts his eye, his vision is not devoid of either tenderness or hope.

The show's organizing theme and chief preoccupation is motherhood and child rearing.

In East Asia, Mrs. Nelson added, SARS, not war, is the chief preoccupation.

The chief preoccupation of Johanan and his students was the study and continuing development of the Law (Halakha).

In fact, maintaining the sound and structure of that room was initially the chief preoccupation of the designers.

All of the speculation, which has hit DefCom 4, actually threatens to overtake the Oscars as Hollywood's chief preoccupation.