Sentence examples for enduring preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bochner's new paintings give fresh immediacy to his enduring preoccupation with the tension between perceptual and conceptual experience.

Set to unlikely and experimental scores, ranging from popular music of the 1920s to Partch and Conlon Nancarrow, these early pieces also illustrated the choreographer's enduring preoccupation with the musicality of dance.

In a sign of an enduring preoccupation with their neighbour, many Indians considered the nuclear deal most pleasing for having "de-hyphenated" their country from it: that is, for making a distinction between the world's biggest democracy and the nuclear proliferators next door.

Based on Andy Merriman's Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques, and bearing marked similarities to previous standalone BBC dramas on, among others, Tony Hancock, Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd and Fanny Cradock, Hattie is the latest example of Auntie's enduring preoccupation with the closets of our dead light-ent favourites.

Maxwell's writings exhibit an enduring preoccupation with the role of metaphysics in the advancement of science, especially the progress of physics.

The search for life on Mars – the closest planet to Earth that may harbour life – has been an enduring preoccupation since the earliest days of space exploration.

The subject embraced many of the enduring preoccupations of a Glaswegian Jewish Marxist with an intellect honed when the Clyde was at its reddest.

The sheer heterogeneity of human experience is one of his enduring preoccupations, and he has found, once again, an impossible and perfect embodiment of just how curious our species can be.

But beneath its fantasy elements lie the novelists enduring preoccupations with history, memory, love and war, with the same controlled, artfully simple style that makes Ishiguro's storytelling so distinctive, and utterly beguiling.

"One of his [RT's] most enduring preoccupations had been a mighty gap in our understanding: namely that we have no idea how consciousness, mind, self-consciousness, the sense of the past and of the future, could have arisen out of, fitted into, and acted upon the physical world to which his body had belonged".

Riley would probably see it differently, and ask us to look for concordances of rhythm and colour and enduring formal preoccupations.