Sentence examples for contemporary preoccupation from inspiring English sources

This isn't only a contemporary preoccupation.

Kinetic (moving) art, such as the mobile, is a major contemporary preoccupation in painting and sculpture.

He turned from the contemporary preoccupation with the work of the heart and lungs to a more obscure project: "to unlock the secret places of man's mind".

And any attempt to describe the contemporary preoccupation with tattoos would require yet another show, drawing on an ever-growing scholarly enterprise.

It's worrying that the contemporary preoccupation with "antisocial behavior" should dominate so much of legislators' thinking.

It's worrying that the contemporary preoccupation with "anti-social behaviour" should dominate so much of legislators' thinking.

Because of this history, restaurants in any era reveal contemporary preoccupations.

Television writers are particularly susceptible to filtering an era through contemporary preoccupations.

Some of the coincidence is also due to contemporary preoccupations with gender.

While such motivation may seem quaint, Ms. Antoni has gained success as an artist because her work corresponds to many contemporary preoccupations, especially women's interest in -- and anxieties about -- their bodies.

Saunders's article intrigues with its descriptions of an odd corner of bygone America — we're in P. T. Barnum territory here, complete with a half-monkey-half-fish Feejee mermaid and a memo titled "Rockefeller Leopard Skins" — but it also speaks to more contemporary preoccupations.