Behind the laughter, there are hints of profound discord in Donna's preoccupation with form and manners and in Michael's overwhelming self-centeredness.
"Over time, I began to wonder if they reflected something more profound about US pursuits and preoccupations at home and abroad". .
"Over time, I began to wonder if they reflected something more profound about US pursuits and preoccupations at home and abroad". But while the machinery may look small from the perspective of space, it's made a huge mark on the American landscape.
His preoccupation with the war remained profound.
In classical myth, in Goethe's Faust for example, and in all religious traditions, there is a clear recognition of the importance of care giving as a vital human activity.But this has been marginalised by a cultural preoccupation with independence and a profound aversion to dependence, vulnerability and need.
It allows researchers and analysts to reconstruct the election process, gain invaluable insight into the main thematic preoccupations and ideas formulated by candidates in a time of profound national crisis, and assess the election process and its results from primary sources".--Publisher description.
The students' preoccupation with safe spaces and the comfort of home seems a plausible manifestation of the profound lack of security — from violence to financial insolvency — that their generation faces.
The students' preoccupation with safe spaces and the comfort of home seems a plausible manifestation of the profound lack of security from violence to financial insolvency that their generation faces.
Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots, and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values.
National security had long been a preoccupation of Fox News, and it was clear in the interview that the 9/11 attacks had a profound effect on Mr. Ailes.
