In Ms. Cohen's analysis, silent film developed three major preoccupations, each associated with a particular genre of silent film: the body (associated with comedy), the landscape (associated with the western) and the face (associated with melodrama).
The problem of the distribution of crystalline matter according to the laws of symmetry was to become one of his major preoccupations.
Horror films, that had sex as one of their major preoccupations, continued to be more leniently censored, due to the perception of being unserious and lightweight.
But as he left behind the farewell rituals with troops for meetings in neighboring Turkey, crises afflicting relations with two nearby countries, Iran and Syria, were already replacing Iraq as Mr. Biden's major preoccupations.
Those are among the C.I.A.'s major preoccupations, and they are what General Petraeus has lived and breathed in his last three jobs, first as commander in Iraq, then overseeing all of the Middle East and South Asia as head of Central Command, and finally as commander in Afghanistan.
Her major preoccupations remain language and the body.
Two major fires in two weeks.
Ujiri has two major goals.
Cambodia has two major museums.
