Sentence examples for modern preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Subplots involving modern preoccupations like AIDS cocktails and fertility treatments mix with ageless themes of destiny, lost innocence and rebirth.

Neither lover wishes for any publicity, and these modern preoccupations form realistic entanglements to a brooding story and a real "can't put it down" mystery.

A year later London's gay community was given a new voice with Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty", which won the Man Booker prize.The novels of London are now coming full circle, bringing a fuller cast into focus through two modern preoccupations: economic crisis and terrorism.

Anam, whom we spoke to recently by phone from her co-working space just off Brick Lane, a traditionally Bangladeshi street in East London, is a vivid chronicler of her native country's modern preoccupations, from Dhaka's suffocating traffic to the dockyards of Chittagong, where poor laborers dismantle ships for parts.

And, well, they should be given modern preoccupations.

Is it about power or (a particularly modern preoccupation) about dementia?

as an expression of the defining modern preoccupation with machines that blur the boundary between the human and the mechanical.

What does the experience of Rebecca Adlington on I'm A Celebrity... tell us about our modern preoccupation with women's body image?

The ones asking this question now tend to be economists, which is a switch, since their predecessors were the ones who initiated the modern preoccupation with resource scarcity.

Anorexia nervosa, meaning emotionally caused loss of appetite, was first identified by physicians in England, France and the United States in the 1870's, long before any modern preoccupation with dieting.

Swallows and Amazons was always treasured for its innocent charm, and maybe Golding's Lord of the Flies made this kind of story unfashionable even before our modern preoccupation with the danger that unaccompanied children can be in.