| Alongside the need for patriotic resistance, the preoccupations of contemporary politics are calculated to reanimate Tory instincts. |
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| I chuckled to myself as my morbid preoccupations melted away, replaced by a deep joy. |
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| Howard has a bent for rebellion and grand causal schemes and shares that and other preoccupations with his grandparents. |
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| Paolozzi shares many of the Surrealists' preoccupations, in particular an interest in the power of dolls and mannequins. |
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| I talked to a group of lads involved with the project, who in exchange for anonymity talked frankly about their preoccupations. |
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| The main issues discussed in the volume reflect the preoccupations of the fields of business and economic history. |
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| The same range of topics and preoccupations fueled discussion on the other side of the Atlantic. |
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| Just occasionally a show comes along that seems to capture the moment, its preoccupations and obsessions. |
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| The great triumvirate of white South African novelists share obvious preoccupations in the new South Africa. |
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| We find it much easier to identify with people who share some of our cultural baggage, values and preoccupations. |
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| For me, the comparison would seem to be most valid when it comes to the two auteurs' preoccupations with off-screen space. |
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| Broca argued that the anthropologists could debate monogenism or polygenism without extraneous preoccupations. |
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| Rather than providing a transparent depiction of daily life, diarists convey a great deal about the preoccupations of their society. |
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| There are few things more tedious than the preoccupations of people for whom the drug scene has become a way of life. |
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| As public life is emptied out and loses direction, private and personal preoccupations are projected into the public sphere. |
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| In conversation, Miller seems fully attentive to the present and its preoccupations. |
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| Man Listening To Disc and Marginalia are creepily accurate portrayals of aspects of my two main preoccupations. |
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| These themes show the preoccupations of both virus writers and those they are targeting with their malicious code, Cluley reckons. |
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| Perhaps influenced by Central American preoccupations with swine flu, the Panama Star said British MPs had succumbed to a worldwide disease. |
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| Critics say that, unsurprisingly, death and mortality have been the chief preoccupations of his recent writings. |
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| These preoccupations reflect epistemologically grounded beliefs about what constitutes acceptable knowledge. |
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| The Capsian man left, besides the lithic implement, vestiges that betray aesthetic preoccupations. |
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| Immune to the seductions of fashion, Brookner's preoccupations have nonetheless begun to parallel contemporary anxieties. |
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| Few sportsmen have ever been so consumed by preoccupations with image, publicity and puerile self-justification. |
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| Not the least of the nation's preoccupations in the present situation concerns the demonisation of the particular communities. |
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| It is, in other words, a text that reflects the preoccupations and worldview of its subject. |
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| Much more interesting is the fact that Larkin waited so confidently for his methods and preoccupations to come into focus. |
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| Creative people need to be encouraged to think far more about their audience's needs, and far less about their own preoccupations. |
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| The stories bookending the collection capture her preoccupations. |
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| Such preoccupations are bound to be bad for you, aren't they? |
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| My first response upon rereading the book, largely thanks to my current preoccupations, was to interpret the story as an allegory about writing fiction. |
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| Those two novels and their connection to the Melrose pentalogy are crucial in illuminating St Aubyn's preoccupations. |
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| At the same time, demonic possession increased dramatically, probably because demonism in general and witchcraft in particular were preoccupations of the age. |
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| As Clark also emphasises, that debate placed demonology at the centre of many contemporary preoccupations about the nature of both the world and the divine purpose. |
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| While relying upon the basic framework and preoccupations of an established genre, the road movie, Badlands twists, defamiliarises and critiques its familiar coordinates. |
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| The nudity of the characters corresponds to the thematic preoccupations of the play, he says. |
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| His preoccupations caricature Fedor's preoccupation with infinity by reducing what is for Fedor a kind of otherworldly transcendence to the pragmatism of a perpetuum mobile. |
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| The quest for the source of the Niger river and the location of the fabled central African city of Timbuctoo were among their central preoccupations. |
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| His larger thematic preoccupations are balanced by seductively beautiful prose and, particularly, a way with drawing nuanced and poignantly flawed characters. |
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| The creepy, outrageously Freudian project comes from several of his current preoccupations, including videogames, disaster flicks and her own recurring night terrors. |
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| This time, his stated preoccupations are impossible to ignore. |
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| There was a swing away from comedy to serious political drama, reflecting preoccupations and divisions following on the political crisis. |
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| The literary critic Alexander Welsh suggests that Scott exhibits similar preoccupations within his own novels. |
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| These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east. |
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| The problem of coordinate conversions and transformations has continued to be one of the most important preoccupations of worldwide geodetic specialists. |
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| As in earlier decades, the shorter plays were generally comedies, some historical and others addressing various political and social preoccupations of the author. |
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| This view of obsessions comes from findings that have found an equivalence in the content between normal preoccupations and obsessional intrusions. |
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