Sentence examples for preoccupations from from inspiring English sources

George Orwell, writing in 1940 about Henry Miller, has very different preoccupations from Kate Millett writing about Miller in 1970.

On "You Have to Go to College," one of his first songs, Toledo runs through a series of classic high-school preoccupations, from losing touch with friends to what it means to grow up and become a "decent human being".

In fact the show itself is meant to be an experience, a kind of odyssey that follows the artist through various phases and preoccupations from the 1970's until last year.

Lower in carbs but equally crammed with visual overload, the adjacent gallery is literally papered with drawings that reference his other preoccupations, from cats to the detritus of consumerism.

This collection of either unpublished or once-published-but-forgotten work is valuable because it shows Jackson's early preoccupations from the early to mid 1940s, before she came to write those masterpieces, as well as the shocking short story, "The Lottery", published in 1949, which brought her minor fame.

Anam, whom we spoke to recently by phone from her co-working space just off Brick Lane, a traditionally Bangladeshi street in East London, is a vivid chronicler of her native country's modern preoccupations, from Dhaka's suffocating traffic to the dockyards of Chittagong, where poor laborers dismantle ships for parts.

He inherited this preoccupation from late 19th-century decadent writers, and from Freud.

Fighting and winning the Second World War was the great national preoccupation from December 1941 to August 1945, the heart of my grade school years.

Alexander Ebert's preoccupation from a young age with founding a community, a "posse", or a group of his own, has found a harmonious home.

Brandt's nudes, his major preoccupation from the 1950's onward, consist of female bodies photographed to look like the modern sculptures of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth that he admired.

Gardening adheres to its ideal preoccupations, and from time to time it also yields to necessity.