In the work of other writers, such as Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, and Marcel Proust, each following his own distinctive path, a different kind of realism emerged, focused on a preoccupation with the analysis of individual action, motivation, and desire as well as a fascination with form.
These centre on a preoccupation with markets, competition and choice and with meeting performance targets.
All active responsibility is based on a preoccupation that could be expressed as follows: what will happen to the child if I do not take care of him or her?
How much do you have to know when you see a country blowing up on television?" A preoccupation of her fiction is the moral point where the bystander becomes complicit.
"When we discussed bootleg fentanyls in [past years], we warned that a narrow focus on one drug and a preoccupation with supply control and enforcement without substantial improvements in addiction treatment access (demand reduction) and safety measures (harm reduction) would result in even more toxic opioids that are easier to traffic entering the market," Virani told VICE.
But, by the same token, if we can flip the narrative, and shine the spotlight on stories of achievement, we can shift from what Hansen called "a preoccupation on loss" to the "inspiration of possibilities".
On the other: stones, short supplies, feuds, the violence of revenge, rampant illness, an acceptance of death and an on-going preoccupation with surviving one more night - or perhaps one more week - together.
At one point on the program, Gaffney, reflecting a preoccupation with Muslims, asserted that Obama's use of his clemency power to commute the sentences of nonviolent federal prisoners freed "people who have been converted in prison to, not just to Islam, but to jihad".
The country is on his mind constantly, a preoccupation common to most expatriate South Africans.
The Obama research team began digging into his Hyde Park associations, including William Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground who had become a preoccupation on conservative blogs, and Mr. Wright.
The Italian films I've seen are very different, but each in its way dwells satirically on the Berlusconi culture: a preoccupation with get-rich-quick, celebrity, TV, gameshows, women getting jobs as sexed-up promo girls in shopping malls.
