Sentence examples for earliest preoccupation from inspiring English sources

According to Sir James Frazer, myths and rituals together provided evidence for man's earliest preoccupation, namely, fertility.

Still, greatness was an early preoccupation of his.

After an early preoccupation with sculpture, she met Larionov and shifted her focus to painting.

This fear might explain the earlier preoccupation with familiar strangeness and the old made new.

Killing him was an early preoccupation of mine, and it has endured off and on even after his death.

The first is John Piper, whose allegiance to materiality, landscape and ancient churches grew out of an early preoccupation with abstraction.

After World War II, Berlin's interest shifted from his early preoccupation with Analytic philosophy to the fields of political science, political theory, and intellectual history.

From his earlier preoccupation with the power of instinct in human behavior, Mr. Vandekeybus has moved on to the more familiar territory of the subconscious.

An earlier preoccupation with the sheer quantitative problems of providing schooling for all children has been replaced in developed nations with a growing concern for persistent inequities in the quality of schooling provided various segments of the population.

Hollyoaks' early preoccupation with teenage party-going and who's-snogging-who storylines established a firm following (before the recent arrival of grittier themes, such as last week's look at male rape).

Although Wetering himself was to follow in his commercial footsteps, he also developed an early preoccupation with philosophy wrought by Rotterdam's wartime destruction and the deaths of Jewish friends.