Science remained a preoccupation, though he later gained a master's degree in English at the University of East Anglia.
Cosmetic surgery is still mostly an elitist preoccupation, though some plucky girls take up collections on the Internet, promising their benefactors pictures of their new breasts.
Dating remains a giddy, girlish preoccupation, though Carrie and her friends are self-aware enough to recognize that at their age it is a bit ridiculous.
Some of this was, of course, my own unsophistication and tendency towards single-issue preoccupation, though I had good reason to worry – the [US] supreme court's upsetting Planned Parenthood v Casey decision came in 1992, when I was just 19.
Although the fierce ease with which capitalism husks humanity is one of his main concerns, though debris (emotional and material) is one of his chief preoccupations, and though rupture is the texture that most attracts his eye, his vision is not devoid of either tenderness or hope.
To walk the streets of Manhattan is to find evidence that pursuit of wealth is a consuming preoccupation I marvel, though, at the indignation with which the city's wealthiest greet skeptical questions about actions the past few years.
Back and forth to the kitchen they go, always with an air of preoccupation, as though some secret is hidden there, in the oven, behind the sink, out on the porch.
Green explains the success of the novel in deeply unflattering terms: "It was precisely his retreat into the pre-industrial past, his mannered simplicity, his platitudinous self-preoccupation, which (though anathema to the intelligentsia) so well mirrored their own concerns, and thus turned his six autobiographical volumes into bestsellers.
