Example sentences for: preoccupations

How can you use “preoccupations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These drawings appear to synthesize all the preoccupations of the phases of his previous three years; they fluidly combine the diagrammatic, the near-lyrical, and the excruciating.

  • Lee's approach and preoccupations are characteristic not only of the Boss prize finalists but of contemporary conceptual art in general.

  • Yet the picture of how those things happened becomes harder to reimagine, as that past world, with its preoccupations and uncertainty, recedes and the remaining memories of it become colored by what happened and what was written about it later.

  • For Oates' pretensions--his impassioned defense of abused children; his overassiduous note-taking; his obsessions with criminality, mesmerism, and his wife's sister--parrot Dickens' own well-documented preoccupations.

  • Spiritual preoccupations turned away from the world’s few joys and woes in the present, to mystic contemplation of the ineffable hereafter.


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