Thus he attacks what people at a given time and place hold in highest esteem, and people's fears of witchcraft correspondingly reveal their deep-seated cultural preoccupations.

The influence of the Net and the PC is just feeding a wider cultural preoccupation.

In its violent yoking together of disparate emotional and aesthetic references, Sontag's thesis is an uncanny presentiment of cultural preoccupations to come.

This is a boom time for serial killers; they're a growth industry both as a criminal class and as an American cultural preoccupation.

But "Out 1," even after more than three decades - and even though it is stamped with the cultural preoccupations of its time - seems to be happening in the present tense.

Cultural readers, of course, inevitably respond in terms of their own cultural preoccupations.

Spenser represented real cultural preoccupations in his texts but these representational forms became vehicles which helped enforce cultural categories and the apparent identities they confer.

In fact, youthful prodigiousness is the leading edge of a wider cultural preoccupation with early high performance in our meritocratic era.

A half-century of intense cultural preoccupation with hyphenated American identity has been giving birth to the hyphenated American museum.

In "The Lonely Crowd" and other works, Mr. Riesman provided middle-class Americans with a sharply focused view of their major cultural preoccupations.