Sentence examples for two preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Over the course of This Long Pursuit two preoccupations dominate.

And the two preoccupations have been his living for the past four decades.

Dodgson, it turns out, was a man with two preoccupations — logic and little girls.

Perhaps those conversations were not only attempting to resolve the two preoccupations of every exile: longing and logistics.

The personages Kierkegaard creates to embody the aesthetic stage have two preoccupations, the arts and the erotic.

Moody's account of the man who had these experiences focuses on the two preoccupations that, in his view, did most to shape the work: music and Mussolini.

"I'm through trying now, it's a big relief," Smith sings on The Last Hour, summing up the first of the album's three preoccupations: a slow, inexorable progress towards suicide.

Since his postdoc appointment ended, four preoccupations have dominated Cánovas's life: his son Diego, now 7; an extensive, and thus far unsuccessful, search for another research position; his legal action against UMass and Altieri, which he is pursuing pro se (as his own lawyer) because he cannot afford legal fees; and efforts to publish his scientific work.

Instead, our policies bounce around like a pin-ball that is impelled by one of our four preoccupations: Israel, Iran, 'the war on terror' and oil.

Indeed, one preoccupation of regulators is that shares in IPOs have not always been allocated in proportion to the amount of broking business a client does.Non-binding banter often takes place with good clients, say Wall StreetersThe chief concern is about what other clients did to get an outsized allocation.

It is the relationship within it of Wagner's two great preoccupations: myth and psychology.