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These truths go a long way toward explaining the preoccupations of a culture whose interest in imagery is defining.
This fear might explain the earlier preoccupation with familiar strangeness and the old made new.
How else to explain the public preoccupation with Hillary Rodham Clinton's pantsuits and hairstyles and ankles, or the weight given Linda Tripp's or Monica Lewinsky's looks?
Relatedly, this line of thought may help explain the historical preoccupation with whether responsibility for an action requires the ability to have done otherwise.
Held in place by a gossamer grid of columns and wires, and crowned with a central mast, the structure has more in common with the world of sails and rigging in the nearby harbour than the weighty domain of buildings on land – a feeling that might be explained by the preoccupation of its designer, Renzo Piano.
"While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries". This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals.
In the lonely weeks of early pregnancy before we told people – when I didn't look pregnant and found my sickness and preoccupation hard to explain – the natural world is where I could let it out.
In her book Femininity and Domination, Sandra Bartky uses Marx's theory of alienation to explain the objectification that results from women's preoccupation with their appearance.
If the troubles in Iraq have fueled a rising preoccupation with foreign affairs, recent economic improvement could explain the relative decline in concerns on that front.
