Sentence examples for enduring preoccupations from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

"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".

The eventual structure always rises out of the words and narratives as they unfold, and for much of the writing I am lost and uncertain, with only a mood and enduring preoccupations to guide me.

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

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

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.

The popularity of the annual Ghost Festival (rite in which offerings are made to ancestral ghosts), as well as the persistence of other seasonal, domestic, and esoteric rites for the care and feeding of the dead, demonstrates that responsibility for beings in "purgatory" is an enduring preoccupation of Chinese society as it is in other East Asian cultures.

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.