Sentence examples for preoccupation with surface from inspiring English sources

The emphasis on richness of material, excessive decoration, and preoccupation with surface set in motion a process of decline that was not arrested till the 20th century.

Although set in the future, Owen's play is a satire on our preoccupation with surfaces.

This was entirely emblematic of Abbott's worldview, and the fact that he was more widely mocked for this than any of his other policies spoke to our preoccupation with the surface.

As Linda Dalrymple Henderson writes in "Duchamp in Context" (Princeton, 1999), he was drawn in not only because those naughty X-rays could "penetrate clothing and flesh" but also because they promised something more: "Here was a new kind of light that allowed a painter to go beyond the preoccupation of earlier artists with surface appearances" -- or the retinal in Duchamp's derogatory term.

On the surface a child's preoccupation with personal photos seems quite benign, or even beneficial.

Love of ball games, especially baseball, has been a constant in DeLillo's life, signalling to his peers the "street-level" nature of his interests and surfacing in his books as a preoccupation with crowds, common moods, mass hysteria.

As in "About the Author," whose narrator also becomes a sensation, the novel's surface disdain for the glitz of the limelight overlies a fetishistic preoccupation with all the goodies.

The preoccupation with squalor.

Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics.

11 preoccupation with bioterrorism's lurking residue.

Their preoccupation with mortality is raw.