His little preoccupations open up into music that sounds, if not universal, then much more welcoming than the usual snob's exercise.
His little preoccupations open up into music that sounds, if not universal, much more welcoming than the usual snob's exercise.
Now, the goal is no longer to create ignorance, because there is little to no preoccupation in public media with determining the validity of knowledge.
In such works Degas seemed to be confronting the beginnings of a new art, where documentary description counts for little and the preoccupations with structure and expression of the early 20th century are spelled out.
There is, it is true, more public world than private here (and very little on Pepys's preoccupation with women), but then we have the diaries for that.
Lazar's new novel, "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" (Little, Brown), extends his preoccupation with the private side of public lives, the interaction of history and fiction, the use of multiple source texts, and the severe glamour of crime.
It is a 'must read' that will leave you wondering about the validity of the long held obsession that reduces the law and legal studies to little more than a preoccupation with the word.
"The opportunity is that the improving weather conditions will allow us to grow more plants and a wider range of plants for people to come and enjoy". By contrast, at the RHS garden at Hyde Hall in Essex - a county that receives relatively little rain - the main preoccupation is finding ways to save water or use it sparingly.
When a poll asked French teenagers which company they would most like to work for, the top three responses were not, as in the past, French state enterprises, but Apple, Microsoft and Google.This is a world that has little time for the preoccupations that blocked French roads and dried up petrol pumps.
This book, which sympathetically treats its heroine's journey from innocent girlhood through the disillusionment of an unfortunate marriage and ends with her subsequent widowhood, records what Maupassant had observed as a child, the little dramas and daily preoccupations of ordinary people.
