Sentence examples for preoccupations lie from inspiring English sources
With the Communist Party's ten-yearly leadership transition looming in the autumn, its leaders' preoccupations lie at home.
But that was a blind: Obama's real preoccupations lay elsewhere.
Although they deeply informed his thoughts to an extent still under-appreciated, his main preoccupation lay elsewhere.
But beneath its fantasy elements lie the novelists enduring preoccupations with history, memory, love and war, with the same controlled, artfully simple style that makes Ishiguro's storytelling so distinctive, and utterly beguiling.
Beneath the stylish prose and the incisive, fluent engagement with subjects of worldly intellectual talk lie subterranean debts that obliquely reveal other preoccupations.
He has written his account of those years, with a beautiful balance between ordinary childish preoccupations and the sense of wrongness of having to lie about one's name for reasons that were clearly terrible but were not explained.
Once again, lie, lie, lie. .
The indelible connection between grief and joy — an ongoing preoccupation of Springsteen's — lies behind every one of the songs, including those written before the attacks.
His lifelong preoccupation with maps also lies somewhere in here, caught between the tangible location, and the idea of what lies beyond it.
As a 15-year-old, he remembers reading Charles Ross's seminal biography of the late monarch and developing a preoccupation with Richard III, whose body had lain undiscovered for centuries.
