That Jamie's formal preoccupation involves both art and self is powerfully dramatised in "Hawk and Shadow", a tour-de-force of theme and technique: I watched a hawk glide low across the hill, her own dark shape in her talons like a kill.
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a key precursor to Bacon's later work, and he sustained its formal and thematic preoccupations throughout his career.
The interest of Abi Morgan's Splendour, presented by Paines Plough, lies in its formal experiment and preoccupation with hidden thoughts.
Her work has changed over the years — a singular preoccupation with formal experimentation giving way to include an interest in storytelling.
Lichtenberg's "aphoristic experiments" (see Stern, 1963, pp. 112 126) reflect "that Lichtenberg's scientific preoccupations are the formal and thematic prolegomena to his work as a literary artist".
This atmosphere is oddly suited to a writer like Harvey, whose preoccupation with play and formal reversals is the lighter, kinder side of the muteness that proceeds from horror.
In any event, Kant's critics questioned his view that all duties can be derived from a purely formal principle and argued that, in his preoccupation with rational consistency, he neglected the concrete content of moral obligation.
Literature has described features including social interaction deficits, solitary tendencies, odd speech and ideation, formal thought disorder, unusual perceptions, magical thinking, and preoccupations with bizarre fantasies and interests [ 8, 14, 15, 19– 22].
