Sentence examples for early preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Still, greatness was an early preoccupation of his.

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

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

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.

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

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).

This collection of either unpublished or once-published-but-forgotten work is valuable because it shows Jackson's early preoccupations from the early to mid 1940s, before she came to write those masterpieces, as well as the shocking short story, "The Lottery", published in 1949, which brought her minor fame.

Tracking each author's transition from short lyrics to long poems and thence to the novel, Rae deftly illustrates how the writers' early preoccupations with language and narrative structure metamorphose along with changes in form, such that strategies and techniques first adopted for poetry are then productively brought to bear on fiction.

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

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

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.