Sentence examples for longstanding preoccupation from inspiring English sources

So it's pretty clear that for Ms. Fey motherhood is a longstanding preoccupation.

Paul Resika's schematic treatment of maritime forms elaborates on his longstanding preoccupation with the Cape Cod environment.

Drawing on psychology, physiology and pop culture, he also explores the smile's link to table manners and humanity's longstanding preoccupation with bright white teeth.

Those who might have predicted a few decades ago that the rise of science and technology would eventually blot out Thailand's longstanding preoccupation with the supernatural can walk into one of the country's thousands of 7-Eleven convenience stores.

For Abramson, who studied history at Harvard, the interplay of politics past and present is a longstanding preoccupation, as is clear from her review of Jon Meacham's "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power".

Where Summers partly attributed the neglect of Pankhurst to her break from traditional feminist preoccupations, other historians (such as Joy Damousi and Jacqueline Dickenson) have focused on the continuities behind her apparent zigzags (such as a longstanding preoccupation with the domestic sphere and an understanding of femininity as a eugenic safeguard for British "racial" purity).

It is also an anthology of the director's longstanding preoccupations -- with voyeurism, mistaken identity, paranoia and sexual obsession.

Here Mr. Naharin's longstanding preoccupations with tribal behavior came most clearly to the fore; the five dancers may have been acolytes, or warriors, engaged in cryptic rituals.

Robertson brings his customary assured intensity to longstanding preoccupations with Scandinavia, Greek myths and his north-east coast of Scotland childhood.

It does allow Mr. De Palma to revisit some of his longstanding preoccupations: with characters who double each other; with deceit and disguise; with mirrors, corridors, wigs and staircases.

The paintings are in line with Lund's longstanding preoccupations.