The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya marks a turning point, out of the Age of Reason and towards contemporary preoccupations.

Unlike those in fables, however, Ms. Babbitt's peasants and demons have refreshingly comical quirks and contemporary preoccupations.

Television writers are particularly susceptible to filtering an era through contemporary preoccupations.

Some of the coincidence is also due to contemporary preoccupations with gender.

The big German series,Die grosse Politik der europäischen Kabinette, was begun in the 1920s and reflects the contemporary preoccupation with 'war guilt'.

In these essays, written from 1927 to 1934, are the origins of contemporary preoccupations with cultural studies.

As one of the styles of landscape painting to emerge in the nineteenth century, luminism embraced the contemporary preoccupation with nature as a manifestation of God's grand plan.

Similar changes, with attendant tensions and melancholy, are becoming contemporary preoccupations as well.

He turned from the contemporary preoccupation with the work of the heart and lungs to a more obscure project: "to unlock the secret places of man's mind."

As an anthropologist studying the contemporary American preoccupation with self-improvement, I often hear people invoke a constitutional guarantee of happiness.