A defining characteristic of White's career was his devoted lifelong preoccupation with efficiency and honesty in government.

Despite his lifelong preoccupation with public morality, there is nothing moralizing in Coles.

One aspect of this blurred distinction between myth and history is Ramsay's lifelong preoccupation with the lives of the Saints.

Though "Kids" is his first film, he has had a lifelong preoccupation - no, obsession - with teen-agerhood.

He was the first Estonian collector to use the phonograph for this purpose and the harmonisations he made became a lifelong preoccupation.

This began a lifelong preoccupation with the country.

Strauss condemned "extreme democracy," and his lifelong preoccupation was the safety of "the few" philosophers from persecution by "the multitude."

De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Dürer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.

As a result of this trip, Linden's lifelong preoccupation with orchids was born.

Key works presented here interweave diverse elements of myth and history - lifelong preoccupations of the artist.