And for me, many of those occasions centre less on the cinematography (which - while conceding to Kermode's more authoritative view - is masterful): the real excitement owes a lot to the soundtrack created by the late Jack Nitzsche.
For many Australians absorbing the shock of the siege, questions may centre less on Mr Monis's jihadism and more on how he was out on bail for his various charges, as well as how he had access to weapons.The prime minister, Tony Abbott, says it will take time to find out exactly what happened at Martin Place, and why.
From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guinevere, Percival, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Iseult.
Though developed countries remain the biggest spenders, recent attention has centred on less traditional sources of capital.
The changing parameters of economic debate and the beginning of American decline demanded that conservatives embrace a politics "centred more, not less, on cultural issues" – the family, education, crime and morality.
In August 1983 a bomb wrecked La Maison France, West Berlin's French cultural centre less than a kilometre from one of Carlos's safe houses on the communist eastern side.
Even in Spain, it seems, commemoration of Cervantes's death in April 1616 is being overshadowed by the Shakespeare festivities centred on (more or less) the same day.
Western Liaoning, centred on Jinzhou, is less advanced than the Shenyang-Anshan area or Dalian, but it has valuable mineral resources and some industries.
