But whatever coalition is ultimately patched together, one thing is already clear: Israelis' preoccupations have shifted and, perhaps in an unconscious echo of Barack Obama's declared priorities for America, they want their leaders to focus on "nation-building at home".
The first Perrin novel refers disparagingly to him – and one Sunshine Desserts manager repeatedly says "Super!" With Tinniswood, Nobbs began working on sitcoms: some worked, others didn't, but it was experience, as was a first novel, The Itinerant Lodger (1965), with a central character and storyline that anticipated Reginald Perrin's preoccupation with shifting identity.
This story of pest control is surprisingly gripping, but its strength lies in Rose-Innes's preoccupation with the "shifting, restless … discontented city" of Cape Town, "convulsing in a frenzy of urban ants-in-the-pants".
As Mr. Obama is doing, she brought along a delegation of chief executives from leading American companies, a sign that U.S. priorities, like that of many African countries, had shifted from a preoccupation with humanitarian and development aid to trade and investment.
Has advertisers' preoccupation with half-naked women shifted to half-naked men?
Through researchers such as Baltes, 7 views on the aging mind have shifted from a preoccupation with cognitive decline to a perspective including potentials for growth.
After World War II, Berlin's interest shifted from his early preoccupation with Analytic philosophy to the fields of political science, political theory, and intellectual history.
In it, he was able to demonstrate his sensitivity to the shifting preoccupations and kaleidoscopic variety of Spanish popular culture.
Scammell wants to put the complex intelligence of Arthur Koestler ("Darkness at Noon") back on display and to explain his shifting preoccupations.
You could call them the autobiography of a mind, but they made no claim to composing the narrative of a life, only of the shifting preoccupations of their protagonist in an ongoing conversation with the Greek and Roman writers on his library shelves — and, of course, with himself.
