Sentence examples for preoccupations which from inspiring English sources
The brothers had signature preoccupations, which they discussed with excitable urgency, talking into the camera at tremendous speed.
"It takes them beyond their daily preoccupations, which is what we need to do as we center," she said.
There was always a part of the dance world that resisted these preoccupations, which regarded Cunningham as too cerebral, too weird.
Obviously, you don't need to be a practising pagan to experience this – the British passion for gardening ties into similar preoccupations, which might be why so many people find paganism amenable when it's explained to them.
At this point in the writing I found, almost without intending it, that I was writing a literary spy and quest novel, heavily influenced by both the Byzantine quality of Jerusalem and the sense that the follies and ancient longings and intrigues that have haunted Jerusalem – the preoccupations which nearly destroyed Richard the Lionheart – are as persistent as ever.
A long list of bad things about being a child ranges from the obviously unforgivable - the neglect of disabled children, damaging poverty, premature criminalisation - to preoccupations which seem rather more peculiar to the average children's commissioner, and that limited number of children likely to be affected by mosquito devices and knife-searching arches.
At our first meeting in November, Gingrich laid out for me his latest preoccupation, which, surprisingly, had nothing to do with stimulus or banking.
Various forms of freedom are Stendhal's ultimate preoccupation, which probably explains why he repeatedly explores the ambiguities of the prison image.
He teaches both basic and esoteric courses related to his life's preoccupation, which is also the subject of his 5-volume life's work.
(Knopf. $8.95). The personal story a son with hemophilia behind the preoccupation which led to the writing of "Nicholas and Alex andra". A scathing critique, as well, of American medicine and the way charities purport to help it.
Out of all this multifariousness and Pop-Surrealist wackiness, however, there does emerge a certain thematic preoccupation, which you might describe as the gap between the mundane and the transcendental.
