The Church Book reveals much about the typical preoccupations of a Baptist community, especially its striving for fellowship and for moral and theological purity.
Sure, there are the typical preoccupations -- finding a summer job, being where the action is, who is dating who -- and of course, what to wear at the beach.
The extortion, which prosecutors said was an effort to get Mr. Seagal to pay as much as $3 million from his film work, was a foray into Hollywood by Mr. Ciccone's crew that gave a dash of drama to what was otherwise a grim case of typical mob preoccupations, like collecting debts and handpicking waterfront union officials who would answer to underworld bosses.
(Both these goals, Weeks says, are typical eccentric preoccupations).
His poem in praise of Sir Walter Raleigh, De Guiana, Carmen Epicum ("An Epic Poem about Guiana," 1596), is typical of his preoccupation with the virtues of the warrior-hero, the character that dominates most of his plays.
Deledda's first international success, Elias Portolu, is typical of her preoccupation with the notion of transgression, and with fatally flawed characters torn between hope and despair, right and wrong, sin and redemption.
These penumbral views of stylized bathing beauties are typical of David Levinthal's preoccupation with the mythologies embedded in contemporary figurines.
"Étoile Polaire," to music by Philip Glass, is typical of Mr. Feld's most recent preoccupation with geometric line and form and repetition.
Belonging to a well-known genre of Arabic literature and derived mainly from Arabic sources, it is permeated by a preoccupation with divine justice, which was typical of the Muʿtazilite school of Islamic theology.
This is such a far cry from the concerns of other "Intervention" addicts — the money-and-appearance preoccupations of Caylee on next week's episode are more typical — that even (or especially) a hardened "Intervention" viewer will find it difficult to look away.
As if to reinforce this sense of callous preoccupation, consider just a few of the many typical comments on a recent Huffington Post article that reprinted the Associated Press story about the hikers' mothers returning home from their visit to Iran without their children: "I hear North Korea is beautiful in the spring.
