Sentence examples for preoccupation at the time from inspiring English sources

Johnson's abiding preoccupation at the time was the idea of procession, the differentiation of spaces through which people pass.

Heavy farm breakfasts before work got the blame for indigestion, a major preoccupation at the time, and a lighter version became the ideal.

But Thompson's suicide wasn't pre-eminent among his (reportedly estranged) wife Marian's preoccupations at the time.

Still, if all criticism is a form of autobiography (as Oscar Wilde would have it), one might look to these pieces for clues to his preoccupations at the time.

"The last time Uniqlo tried to break into the UK it was all about the growth of the 'value retailer'," says Portas, "People were looking at the chain and thinking, 'It's not that cheap.' They didn't really fit in with people's preoccupations at the time".

Overriding preoccupations at this time include generativity and succession planning for the future.

But his preoccupations at this time spilled over into foreign policy.

The main reasons for the style's popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation with ancient Greek culture at the time, as well as a new awareness of the actual nature of Greek art brought about through widely circulated illustrations of notable ancient temples and the Elgin Marbles.

Candi Sukuh temple of Ngancar, East Java, was built in the 10th century and is dedicated to Shiva and is evidence of Tantric ritual in Hinduism and the fertility cult practiced at the time and preoccupation with the lingga.

At the time, however, this preoccupation with the trivial, with the nothing of life that is nothing, seemed to jettison everything — meter, the calculated symbol, the grave poetic tone — associated with the manners of the art.

He said family planning was already "off the radar" at the time because of the preoccupation with HIV-Aids.