Sentence examples for larger preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Less sophisticated critics decried Columbia's "self-centered Care Bears"; sharper observers objected to how the trigger-warning conversation disguised the larger preoccupations of the text, veiling ethical questions of force and consent in the language of personal harm.

The piano lessons and rehearsals point to another, larger preoccupation - the novel begins by asking "What is art?" The question really is what is it for these people?

There are other dimensions to Japanese women left unexplored in these novels, but their larger preoccupation is with Japan's determination to keep the foreigner at arm's length, and with the epic misunderstandings this determination can produce.

Chua's larger historical preoccupations, as she suggests, arise from her own biography.

The trigger-warning debate may, by comparison, seem esoteric; but both it and #YesAllWomen express a larger cultural preoccupation with achieving safety, and a fear of living in its absence.

But it was also part of a larger U.S. preoccupation that China's "peaceful rise" had taken a martial turn.

Those deaths have caused shock and soul-searching in a usually balmy capital where homelessness mostly used to seem like a preoccupation of larger, harsher cities like New York or Moscow.

Another big, new preoccupation?

"We've moved in the direction of things becoming interpreted at a larger scale rather than a preoccupation with the dormouse or the badger or the fox... starting to look into the ecosystem".

This strongly suggests that Herodotus' preoccupation was with something larger still.

Robinson is known for the religious convictions that fortify her work, but her theological preoccupations are part of a larger moral vision that is not incompatible with a redoubtable scepticism.