Sentence examples for preoccupation by from inspiring English sources
The exhibition disrupts this preoccupation by situating the art works unevenly among each other, with one installation flowing directly into another.
The urgency of this preoccupation by Modernism may be one reason that so many of its adherents fell prey to the temptations of extreme certainties like Fascism (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) or Communism Picasso, Dos Passoss).
Scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for his biopic of Harvey Milk, tries to humanise Hoover's unquenchable professional preoccupation by summoning up his reputed double life as a closet case and cross-dresser; the gaudy after-death rumour that was so joyously taken up by the liberal Left, for whom Hoover was such a bête noire.
We can learn about a country's preoccupations by reading its popular fiction.
The readers were transfixed not by the latest political scandal or account of parking violations (a Cairene preoccupation), but by a straight-talking tale of sex, lies and Islamism in the 'Mother of the World' - al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building.
Although the field originally focused on the varying degrees of victim blameworthiness, by the 1970s this preoccupation became overshadowed by studies intended to prevent victimization, to improve the way complainants are handled by the police and courts, and to speed recovery.
"Is America wallowing in its own obsessions or are our preoccupations shared by the world?
Abstract Expressionism, movies, McCarthyism, Marlon Brando, existentialism, "On the Road": preoccupations shared by many culturally inquiring Americans, queer and not.
One of Hatto's preoccupations, shared by Barry, was the tyranny of the classical-music critical establishment: "I have always played what I thought was right (for me?) and have taken some censure in my life for so doing.
How much of that preoccupation was influenced by Alaskan hours of daylight and darkness?
As the music quickened, Csiki, with unhinged movements that recalled those in "Crisis Variations," danced a solo marked by preoccupation.
