Sentence examples for such preoccupations as from inspiring English sources

Still, Mughal painters treaded their own path, resisting such preoccupations as perspective and the use of chiaroscuro to create the illusion of depth.

Such preoccupations have led to Egoyan being pigeon-holed by some critics as a rarefied, cerebral film-maker, more interested in the theory of vision than narrative or character.

Many such preoccupations turn up in postwar American writing.

She casts aside youthful preoccupations, as well as her virginity.

The last time I had Thai food this exhilarating was at the Heron in the basement of a sticky-carpeted Paddington boozer, but there I'm not sure they bothered too much about such dreary preoccupations as provenance.

Such preoccupation with individual performances seems to smack against the image of Japan as a group society, and that topsy-turviness is not lost on Andrew Gordon, a professor of Japanese history at Harvard and author of a book on Matsuzaka.

The severity of core features such as preoccupations with body image, weight, eating and exercising predicts greater resistance to treatment.

Restricted behavior is limited in focus, interest, or activity, such as preoccupation with a single television program, toy or game.

But nowhere else in Europe has distrust and fear of the modern, outside world turned into such a national preoccupation as in France.

On the way, there will be scattered struggles through the autumn to win or retain control of Liberal constituency associations and thus of the selection of delegates to the party convention.Mr Chrétien meanwhile will have other preoccupations, such as chairing the G8 summit this month and running the country.

Yet for the last three centuries, he argues, many politicians have mistakenly seen "the unconscious as [full of] primitive vestiges that need to be conquered in order to make wise decisions", and have instead concentrated on "the surface level" of human preoccupations, such as "wealth, prestige, worldly accomplishments".