Draghi, serious and direct, is also acutely sensitive to Germany's preoccupation with fighting the specter of inflation, and has spent the last few months underscoring his inflation-fighting credentials.In a rare interview in February, he said monetary policy should "first and foremost be geared toward price stability".
The cast, mostly unknown actors from Canada, perform smart caricatures of the show's stock characters (the aspiring actress, the virginal small-town girl, the idealistic non-white liberal, the brash frat boy, the sensitive gay guy), whose preoccupations are talking about themselves or each other.
"The air of petulant self-preoccupation, the arrogantly sensitive beauty, the mannered, disdainful lyricism.
With this methodological innovation, this study makes a theoretical contribution by uncovering a clear pragmatic strategy in metaphor choice across languages, which is sensitive to culture-specific epistemic conventions and conceptual preoccupations.
Self-preoccupation creates an ego that is at once overinflated, insatiable and overly sensitive.
As Middlemarch puts it, his "soul [was] sensitive without being enthusiastic:... it was that proud narrow sensitiveness which has not mass enough to spare for transformation into sympathy, and quivers thread-like in small currents of self-preoccupation or at best of an egoistic scrupulosity" (M, p. 279).
Ronnie Cornwell, an energetic swindler with a taste for high living, gave his son a lifelong preoccupation with deception, not to mention one of those dreadful childhoods that seems to turn some sensitive children into creative adults.
Another big, new preoccupation?
Mr. Gore is keenly sensitive, though, to just such impressions, and he really does not like to talk about some of his more obscure preoccupations.
