Both these volumes, containing brilliant descriptions of how Christianity spread among the rootless proletariat of the cities of Asia Minor, illustrate his preoccupation with a question, Would the intellectuals of the 19th century lead the masses toward a new enlightenment?
We investigated whether dysmorphic concern with appearance (a preoccupation with minor or imagined defects in appearance) is explained by psychotic processes in a community sample.
When The Register Citizen published several teenagers' Twitter messages defending Mr. Gonzalez and the other football player, Joan Toribio, both seniors, on March 20, a minor scandal became a town preoccupation.
As Vivian Yee writes in "Sex Assault, Internet and a Connecticut Town's Divide," "when The Register Citizen published several teenagers' Twitter messages defending [Edgar] Gonzalez and the other football player, Joan Toribio, both 18-year-old seniors, on March 20, a minor scandal became a town preoccupation".
The ending, a coda in Prestissimo (very quick), 116 quarter notes per minute, is a final, sweeping reiteration of the theme that closes in a heavy E minor chord, which revisits Rachmaninoff's preoccupation with bell sounds, prominent in his Piano Concerto No. 2 and Prelude in C-sharp minor (Op. 3, No. 2).
Much of the essence of Parks' reforms is pure Christopher, reflecting the commission's preoccupation with accountability for both major and minor misconduct, and with responsiveness to citizen complaints.
Some skin difficulties are symptoms of a psychiatric disorder, such as chronic hair-pulling (trichotillomania), the belief that the body is infested with organisms (delusional parasitosis), preoccupation with and distress about an imagined or minor defect (body dysmorphic disorder), and self-inflicted damage to the skin (dermatitis artefacta).
His musical preoccupations with law and principle could seem to have a medieval cast, as in the B minor Mass, yet the compositional rigors also could lead to a giddy sense of freedom and play, as in the "Goldberg" Variations.
The DSM-5 describes hypochondriasis as the "preoccupation with fears of having a serious medical illness based on misinterpretations of benign (or minor) bodily sensations". To a hypochondriac, a headache means a brain tumor, a quickened heartbeat means a heart attack, and a mole means melanoma.
As with The Midsummer Marriage, Tippett's preoccupation with the opera meant that his compositional output was limited for several years to a few minor works, including a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis written in 1961 for the 450th anniversary of the foundation of St John's College, Cambridge.
But its central preoccupation, with social and moral vision, is shamelessly heavy-handed, and the novel is further encumbered by a jumble of lacklustre minor characters and grand themes.
