She casts aside youthful preoccupations, as well as her virginity.
His essential integrity and political independence are not in dispute, and his peculiarities and preoccupations are well known and accounted for by voters, who keep electing him.
Another new anthology of Yiddish stories, "No Star Too Beautiful" (Norton), edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel, has selections reaching back to 1382, but the encounter between modernity and a traditional society is one of its main preoccupations as well.
Other disciplines and preoccupations are well represented too: there are 13 philosophers (specialists in ethics, theory of mind and political philosophy), several scientists (including 2013's Nobel prize winner in physics, Peter Higgs), technology theorists and a handful of writer-activists.
Caregiver Burden – A self-administered questionnaire evaluating the burden evaluated on five dimensions: daily living support, preoccupations about well-being, impact on social life, improvement for the care-receiver, improvement for the caregiver, has been filled by caregivers [ 27, 28].
Other preoccupations remain as well, amongst others, in terms of social acceptability, legislation and with regards to knowledge acquisition, notably on water resources".
Well, about the only thing the pieces in this volume, which were written as magazine assignments, share with one another is a preoccupation with danger and risk, a preoccupation shared as well, of course, by "The Perfect Storm," Mr. Junger's best-selling 1997 account of a fishing boat that disappeared off the coast of New England during a killer gale.
At the same time, he feared that parsing multiracial identity was quickly becoming a preoccupation of the well off.
This is autobiographical fiction: in the age of Knausgaard, of Ferrante, of Lerner and Offill and Cusk, in whose novels the autobiographical is not just a presence but a preoccupation, a driver – well, what on earth is keeping you?
"Seeing ourselves as separate entities, rather than as connected parts of a larger whole, reduces the search for purpose to a preoccupation with how well our self is doing compared with others.
Hence the preoccupations with logos as well as Lego's.
