Sentence examples for personal preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Did you draw on any personal preoccupations with the themes of privacy and celebrity?

In keeping with its subject's professional and personal preoccupations, it will be "an indictment of my country, of time, of our forgetful, self-centered humanity".

Jules Feiffer has always been adept at using satire to trace the links between our public and private anxieties, our political and personal preoccupations.

Some directors are what Martin Scorsese calls smugglers: they make commercial movies and they work in established genres, but within those borders they slip in a secret cargo of personal preoccupations.

In 42 years of cartoons for The Village Voice, in films, plays and numerous books, Feiffer has used satire to trace the links between our public and private anxieties, our political and personal preoccupations.

You can feel he's playing with expectations, subverting himself to the audience but not being afraid to somehow let some of his soul through, some of his personal preoccupations, even if it's all at the service of a gag.

The future Conservative prime minister's personal preoccupation with race was often reflected in his fiction.

For Mr. Sharon, Israel's security -- as he judges it -- has been his life's work, and it remains his personal preoccupation.

His oft-trumpeted personal preoccupation with "resignation" and death itself is at once a quest for the plot that has definitively been lost, and an acute awareness that après him comes a dissonant deluge.

Similarly, Kierkegaard saw himself as a "singular universal" whose personal preoccupation with himself was transfigured by divine Governance into universal significance.

Kierkegaard's pseudonym Johannes Climacus says of Socrates that "his whole life was personal preoccupation with himself, and then Governance comes and adds world-historical significance to it".