Sentence examples for many preoccupations from inspiring English sources

This domestic arrangement – two siblings "sharing" a spouse – clearly interests Cunningham, with its potential for divided loyalties and shifting alliances; it appeared in his last novel, By Nightfall, with which this new book shares many preoccupations.

Running through the galleries, much like a family mantelpiece, is a shelf that brims with personal ephemera – photos and newspaper cuttings, letters and notebooks – that build a picture of the architect's energy and reveal his many preoccupations.

He is both of his time (sharing many preoccupations with Saul Bellow and William Golding, 73 and 74 in this series), and a cultural pioneer, asserting the need for a richer and more complex understanding of a great country.

At a time when one is left with many preoccupations and little energy, keeping a career going may become a formidable challenge.

Many such preoccupations turn up in postwar American writing.

In France, the polls show worries about globalisation are only one of many national preoccupations; meanwhile small firms and shopkeepers are among the most admired institutions.

While such motivation may seem quaint, Ms. Antoni has gained success as an artist because her work corresponds to many contemporary preoccupations, especially women's interest in -- and anxieties about -- their bodies.

Ridge says these themes reflected many of her "preoccupations" during her three-year tenure.

Gordon's bizarre and disturbing memoir, "The Shadow Man," provides a key to many of her preoccupations.

— In many ways, the preoccupations of the young writers who gather every week here over supermarket cheese and crackers are those of young people everywhere.

Many of the preoccupations of The Vanity of Human Wishes and the Rambler essays reappear in Rasselas (1759), which catalogues with profound resource the vulnerability of human philosophies of life to humiliation at the hands of life itself.