Not the least of the nation's preoccupations in the present situation concerns the demonisation of the particular communities. |
Paolozzi shares many of the Surrealists' preoccupations, in particular an interest in the power of dolls and mannequins. |
Immune to the seductions of fashion, Brookner's preoccupations have nonetheless begun to parallel contemporary anxieties. |
Few sportsmen have ever been so consumed by preoccupations with image, publicity and puerile self-justification. |
Howard has a bent for rebellion and grand causal schemes and shares that and other preoccupations with his grandparents. |
Alongside the need for patriotic resistance, the preoccupations of contemporary politics are calculated to reanimate Tory instincts. |