Sentence examples for human preoccupations from inspiring English sources
People call Terkel's business "oral history", but it is more like the weaving of a fabulous verbal tapestry, the threads of which are human preoccupations.
Of course, searches for our modern human preoccupations – sex, conspiracy theories, reality television – will remain static year-on-year, but rapidly changing interests provide valuable indicators of our behaviour.
The aim is "to make the power-play between the gods and the mortals more recognisable", he says – though ultimately, the opera endures because of how it tackles the two unchanging human preoccupations.
The appeal of the hypothesis, and its shocking third option (which I explain in more detail below), is partly that it's a challenge to the basic foundations of our perceptions, but also, paradoxically, that it plugs into some longstanding human preoccupations.
Yet for the last three centuries, he argues, many politicians have mistakenly seen "the unconscious as [full of] primitive vestiges that need to be conquered in order to make wise decisions", and have instead concentrated on "the surface level" of human preoccupations, such as "wealth, prestige, worldly accomplishments".
The hope for a "good death" is a universal human preoccupation.
Novelists, poets, philosophers and theologians agree: Mortality, that relentless law of universal carnage, is the sole worthy human preoccupation.
Yet similar concerns have been raised through the ages, and mostly proved overblown.Knowledge is powerThe pursuit of information has been a human preoccupation since knowledge was first recorded.
God may not exist, but even if he didn't the human preoccupation with him would merit a university chair or two.
Aspects of all of these come together in the peculiarly human preoccupation with pets, which probably would not be as intense if it weren't for the mixture of fear and recognition, selfishness and devotion in the relationship.
When Mr. Levin looked at the names that appeared on Web pages summoned by some number searches, they suggested not only a human preoccupation with the biographical (Sartre, 1905-1980) and the historical (Columbus, 1492), but also "glimpses into how people are feeling about the individuals singled out" (Bill Gates, 666).
