Sentence examples for natural preoccupations from inspiring English sources

To eyes for whom the circus as a subject of serious art was self-evident, but for whom the idea of kinetic, encompassing performance attached to any artistic enterprise was new, Calder's natural preoccupations seemed thrilling, even radical.

Given our natural preoccupations with wine coolers, sunburns, and hot dogs, it's easy to forget that the holiday exists not only to provide us a farewell bender to summer, but to honor the labor movement.

JASON ROBINSON "Tiresian Symmetry" (Cuneiform) Duality is a natural preoccupation for jazz musicians.

Because the effect of lithography is much more painterly than either woodcut or intaglio printing, it is natural that the strong preoccupation with pure colour in contemporary art has created a revival of interest in this medium.

Scenes of astral magic and natural disaster (an understandable preoccupation of Japanese cinema) lend a degree of spectacle that would put many live-action blockbusters to shame, while a hallucinogenic diversion into chalk pastel wonderment will transport even the most sceptical viewer to another realm.

The Renaissance preoccupation with the natural world had constituted a certain "realistic" bias.

But his background gave him a natural feel for his teachers' preoccupation with the ways, means, and manipulative ends of spectacle in consumer culture.

This time, he promised a "green 'Ring,' " and the "Rheingold," which made its bow this season, emphasized Wagner's preoccupation with the natural world of forests, mountains and rivers, inhabited by mythic gods and goddesses -- not inappropriate, given the passionate environmentalism of the Puget Sound audience.

Plant trophies from distant lands decorated the gardens of Europe's powerful and wealthy in a period of enthusiasm for natural history, especially botany (a preoccupation sometimes referred to as "botanophilia") that is never likely to recur.

In her newest, previously uncollected poems, Voigt returns to favored preoccupations, adding to her natural meditations a deepened exploration of musical themes introduced in earlier poems.

This same narrator evinces a preoccupation with death — only natural, on an album called "Widow City".