Sentence examples for preoccupation the from inspiring English sources

This suggestive indirection perfectly suits Marías's preoccupation: the erotic imagination.

"District and Circle" extends this preoccupation ("The Turnip-Snedder," "The Harrow-Pin," "Súgán").

The troupe's appearance relates to the garden's exhibition "Wild Medicine," which celebrates another Renaissance preoccupation: the healing properties of plants.

The art appears to be more decorative, but what was the preoccupation the day they were drawn?

That seems to be his mission, or at least his preoccupation: the first lines of almost all his books start with the word "I".

Writing seems to have become a major preoccupation the second half of your life – prose poetry in particular – were you also writing in the 1960s?

The preoccupation with the latter is the outcome of the implied assumption that production capabilities already exist.

In its confused treatment of that favorite Cameron preoccupation--the relationship between the natural and the technological worlds--the film, for all its richly imagined and dazzlingly depicted beauties, runs into deep and revealing trouble.

The preoccupation of the European powers with other interests helped the Ottomans ameliorate their international problems.

They're symbols of the same preoccupation with the improvised versus the certified.

He neatly fused self-development, the growing preoccupation of the Sixties, with the work ethic.