From the mid-1950s thethe mid-1960s, a deep preoccupation with cars throbbed through French popular culture.
But Amy's novels reveal a deep preoccupation with the concept of deliverance from sin.
Two extremely condensed answers: a curiosity and a deep preoccupation with the variety of ways narrative can simultaneously accommodate individual and group lives.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the notion briefly prevailed that an age of excess had been terminated, and we Americans would finally be forced to relinquish our deep preoccupation with shallow things.
This had the effect not only of darkening the mood of Heaney's work in the 1970s, but also of giving him a deep preoccupation with the question of poetry's responsibilities and prerogatives in the world, since poetry is poised between a need for creative freedom within itself and a pressure to express the sense of social obligation felt by the poet as citizen.
I will not leave till I get what I came here for: shahadah [martyrdom]." Related to this is her deep preoccupation with sexual propriety and worldly corruption.
Rutherford was Baptist with a strong faith and expressed a "deep preoccupation with propriety and morality" in her textbooks, criticizing "authors who openly portrayed sexuality or themselves lived in ways Rutherford found immoral".
"If they are not quite dead, the cinema and the movies sink deeper than ever into their preoccupation with dying," he wrote, his one caveat the result of having actually enjoyed a few "humane pictures made modestly on absorbing stories with a feeling for fictional lives that can be overwhelming", including Winter's Bone, The Arbor, A Prophet and Inception.
It is more like reading a collection of poems or stories, the deep preoccupations becoming clear as you proceed.
But if her preoccupation with Ireland is deep and abiding, her approach is resolutely dispassionate.
The western preoccupation with headline GDP figures overlooks this deeper structural shift.
