As the music quickened, Csiki, with unhinged movements that recalled those in "Crisis Variations," danced a solo marked by preoccupation.
6 It is characterised by preoccupation with the deceased, avoidance, disbelief, numbness, detachment, and excessive irritability and anger and is associated with long term somatic and psychiatric (co morbidity 7 and suicide ideation, even after adjustment for depression.
Now even the contemplation of such habitats has been eclipsed by preoccupations with endangerment and conservation.
From there, the scene-to-scene action alternates with the twentieth- (or twenty-first) century present, propelled by preoccupations with the nature of scientific rationality, sex (very little, however, about love), and whether the human species has a clue about much of anything.
Seeing Trevor Nunn's 2011 Chichester revival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I was struck less by the ingenious wordplay than by the preoccupation with death and the idea that "we must be born with an intuition of mortality".
Attention to Palestinian statehood aspirations seemed to be overshadowed at the General Assembly gathering this year — not just by a preoccupation with the Syria conflict, but by the focus on the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, who created a diplomatic stir with a series of interviews and meetings that ended with an extraordinary phone conversation with President Obama.
Doerr's brooding tales move gracefully back and forth between distant times and places — South Africa, Germany, Lithuania, China, the United States — and are linked by a preoccupation with the way memories are eroded by the depredations of time.
In turn, Strasberg's Actors Studio and the "Method" acting approach influenced many actors, including Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, though by then the Chekhov tradition may have been distorted by a preoccupation with realism.
The historian Alexander Vasiliev doubts the "romantic" story of the origin of Euphemius' revolt, and believes that the ambitious general simply used an opportune moment, when the central Byzantine government was weakened by the recent Revolt of Thomas the Slav, and by its preoccupation with the contemporary Muslim conquest of Crete, to seize power for himself.
In 1967 he ruffled the Soviet authorities by asserting in a Pravda article that Soviet ballet was deadened by its preoccupation with princes and princesses and its unwillingness to tackle contemporary themes.
The vintage vibe was underlined by a preoccupation with space.
