Sentence examples for conceptual preoccupations from inspiring English sources
With this methodological innovation, this study makes a theoretical contribution by uncovering a clear pragmatic strategy in metaphor choice across languages, which is sensitive to culture-specific epistemic conventions and conceptual preoccupations.
Whether intentionally or not, Crouch also seems to be satirising the self-preoccupation of much conceptual art: at one point we learn that Adler and Gibb worked on an instructional piece called "ourselves from a great height".
Mr. Bochner's new paintings give fresh immediacy to his enduring preoccupation with the tension between perceptual and conceptual experience.
His new book lacks the conceptual boldness of those by Ellis and Gordon-Reed but lies close to his own preoccupations — as gleaned from the many glittering names in his acknowledgments, from Robert Caro to Mika Brzezinski, that exhibit an impressively well-tuned appreciation for the social status quo.
Their preoccupation with the historical dimension of the human phenomena, along with the Kantian emphasis on the conceptual basis of knowledge led to the suggestion that the natural sciences aimed at generalizations about abstract types and properties, but the human sciences studied concrete individuals and complexes.
Defense appears largely conceptual.
JR's preoccupations reflect a deeper set of contemporary artistic concerns: how to produce work out of human relationships, or "relational art," as the critic Nicolas Bourriaud put it — conceptual pieces that blur the distinction between artist, subject, and spectator into a social puzzle.
JR's preoccupations reflect a deeper set of contemporary artistic concerns: how to produce work out of human relationships, or "relational art," as the critic Nicolas Bourriaud put it conceptual pieces that blur the distinction between artist, subject, and spectator into a social puzzle.
Instead there are other preoccupations, other motivations.
