WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — Making old things new again is a frequent preoccupation of artists in many mediums.
The stories that make up Plain Pleasures, written between 1944 and 1951, are typical in their juxtaposing of domineering and weak women, and frequent preoccupation with moments of psychological crisis.
Appearance is a frequent preoccupation of this age group because they want to feel like they belong to whatever group they identify with for a period of time.
The truth, however, is that early Prynne is quarried from all too real and resistant material: frequent preoccupations include capitalism and commodification, scientific method and research, cultural archaeology, glaciation and the problem of waste (a recent pamphlet is titled Refuse Collection).
Negative emotions/thoughts prior to NSSI was considered a prototypic symptom by 87.5% of clinicians, while frequent urge and preoccupation to engage in NSSI was relatively less so [ 42].
So, going in, I expected, and discounted for, the usual Tarantino tics: lots of gratuitous violence, with fountains of arterial blood; a three-figure body count; frequent lingering over voluptuous tortures; a governing adolescent sensibility; and a preoccupation with movie history as the only kind worth taking seriously.
A study of adolescent mass murderers found that preoccupation with violent themes, of which martial arts was a frequent example, was documented in about half of the sample of murderers [ 6].
During travels to Europe, especially Paris, Rockwell studied modern art and frequented the cafés in Montmartre, absorbing the bohemian scene and its preoccupation with one style over another, now cubism, now color.
Depression, anxiety and somatoform disorders are the most frequent mental disorders in primary care and the regularity of their occurrence is an important preoccupation in public health.
The weather descriptions, though frequent, are brief, and there is hardly any geology -- one of the deadlier preoccupations of regional literature.
Over the last several months Mr. Davidson has been making frequent trips to Los Angeles to further his landscape interests, what he describes as a "lifelong urban rat's" preoccupation with nature meeting the manufactured, which he has also pursued for many years in Central Park and in Paris.
