Sentence examples for shared a preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Besides their personal relationship, which lasted from 1960 until Hesse's death in 1970, the two artists shared a preoccupation with the grid.

Many of the kids peered inside the writing hut — they weren't allowed in — and seemed to discover there further evidence that Dahl was a strangely sympathetic adult who shared a preoccupation with candy, a clinical fascination with the body, and a love of ingenious, self-devised schemes.

Their voices are distinct, yet they share a preoccupation with autumnal reflection and coming to terms with maturity.

She and Mr. Fischl share a preoccupation with what they call otherness, which they define as a subtle combination of alienation and recognition.

Mr. Koons's choices are stylistically and historically diverse but tend to share a preoccupation with the body and sexuality, which is also a major theme in Mr. Joannou's collection and Mr. Koons's take on it, in a selection of more than 100 works by 50 artists.

They both share a preoccupation with the threat of Islamist groups, peddle similar rhetoric about élitist politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels selling out the common people, and promised to hold referenda on membership of the E.U. in their respective countries if they were elected.

That Holman's two books should have such vigor and complexity is particularly striking since their central characters share a visceral preoccupation with death.

Knorr's reverse puddles share a similar preoccupation with Angeleno car culture as Ed Ruscha's gasoline station paintings of the 1960s, but are less interested in symbolism than the banality of endlessly repeated human activities.

CHARLIE HUNTER AND SCOTT AMENDOLA Deep groove is a shared preoccupation for Mr. Hunter, a soulful seven-string guitarist, and Mr. Amendola, a versatile drummer.

"Piano and Orchestra" (1975), with Joseph Kubera as a distinguished soloist, shared with "Structures" a preoccupation with essential qualities of sound and space.

And wasn't the return of the repressed a shared preoccupation in some of their jests?