Sentence examples for later preoccupation from inspiring English sources

The later preoccupation of Zwingli with ecclesiastical politics should not obscure his true contribution to faith and order.

In the earlier part of his career, Bacon lectured in the faculty of arts on Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian treatises, displaying no indication of his later preoccupation with science.

A writer-editor and a Dodger with almost exactly the same names when reversed is a contrivance utterly flunked by John Donne, and may explain his later preoccupation with shrouds and souls.

By a further irony, Sahl's later preoccupation with the Warren report, chunks of which he read out as part of his act, led to a perhaps understandable fall in his bookings.

The somber tread and grave descending fanfares that open the work point to later preoccupations.

"In prior centuries, Jews, Christians and Muslims had exploited this story for other purposes, often tangential to the later peculiar preoccupation".

Though it foreshadows the later Marvel preoccupation with subplots and digressions – a simple tale of humans versus vampires suddenly drifts into a quest by the latter to raise a "Blood God" called La Magra – Blade is a much darker and violent (though by no means shorter) action thriller when compared to the more shinier, mainstream likes of Thor, Captain America and Iron Man.

Preoccupations later to flower in Strangers on a Train, Carol or the Ripley novels are fascinatingly present here, but the consistent joy lies in the quality of her prose.

If his great book has a defining theme it is ennui - which, after the publication of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, would become such a preoccupation of later French writers, from Flaubert to Stendhal.

A billion or two extra on the surplus this year could easily be offset in a later year.Mr Brown's preoccupation with stability also constrains his efforts at redistribution: he has in effect forbidden himself from spending more on the poor unless he has the wherewithal to finance it.

Alexander's early interest in ethics—exemplified in his first monograph (1889)—survived in his later work as a preoccupation with the nature of value, albeit with a focus on the aesthetic value of beauty.