Preoccupations in a sentence

Defensive driving means recognizing all forms of distraction, including the preoccupations we carry with us.

Its properties had been inverted: the self and its preoccupations were shrunken and impotent, and the exterior plane, with its prospects of imminent danger and disorder greatly enlarged.

Among Brown’s main preoccupations here is the strange, “discombobulating” effect that the Queen had on her public – the ones who actually encountered her in person and those who only knew her as a face on coins and stamps.

Russell’s 40-minute set was hugely well-received by the Forum crowd, and her music has plenty of parallels to Hozier’s own that helped make it a natural fit, even before their shared philanthropic preoccupations.

This conversation, involving artists, critics, and scholars, will reveal how Jamaican art has evolved over time, expressing both national preoccupations and aspirations.

What preoccupations did this feed into?

I'm also a writer, and inevitably you end up writing about your obsessions and preoccupations.

Prince Harry has obviously got other preoccupations at the moment.

By twenty-eight, she’d put out a volume of stories and published in The New Yorker; and when her first novel appeared (she was barely thirty), it already carried the full weight of her mature style and lasting preoccupations.

Real-world political preoccupations are incorporated into this sci-fi tinged action adventure while plot developments weigh vengeance against justice and violent revolution against peaceful reform.

So, it comes as no surprise that the area was an epicenter for one of the late 20th century’s genuinely eccentric preoccupations: unidentified flying objects.

And we should develop a permanent immunity to a fake and manipulative populism that casts upholding standards and defending decency as the preoccupations of rarified social and intellectual circles.

Either we subtly reflect the preoccupations and concerns of the world in which we are immersed – or we see all reality through the lens of faith.

She always writes contemporary novels, so the preoccupations of the day weave throughout.

Consistency, then, foolish or otherwise, is one of Blake's chief preoccupations, just as 'self-contradiction' is always one of his most contemptuous comments".

Faulkner's lifelong education by Callie Barr is central to his novels' preoccupations with the politics of sexuality and race.

In his speech to both Houses on 9 November, James expounded on two emerging preoccupations of his monarchy: the divine right of kings and the Catholic question.

Intolerant of rivalry, thirsting for power, she had a man's preoccupations".

James J.Y Liu comments that zui in poetry “does not mean quite the same thing as ‘drunk,’ ‘intoxicated,’ or ‘inebriated’, but rather means being mentally carried away from one’s normal preoccupations..

One of the poet's constant preoccupations, as part of his dichotomous character, is that of identity: he does not know who he is, or rather, fails at achieving an ideal identity.