The cast, mostly unknown actors from Canada, perform smart caricatures of the show's stock characters (the aspiring actress, the virginal small-town girl, the idealistic non-white liberal, the brash frat boy, the sensitive gay guy), whose preoccupations are talking about themselves or each other.
"Consolation" reads like a novel whose preoccupations have been nurtured and earned.
Robbins is an intellectual sentimentalist — an actor and director whose political preoccupations are always sympathetic but do not necessarily add up to art.
The best example of a Brazilian brand whose preoccupations with the environment are intricately connected with design is Osklen, a brand that, since 1999, has been producing pieces with its self-titled "e-fabrics tag," created to inform the buyer about the eco-friendly origin of the products.
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Would anyone watch a film about a "traditionally built" (as she puts it) shamus whose main preoccupation is contemplating her cases under an acacia tree?
Mr. Wilson plays her brother, Aurelio, a slacker whose biggest preoccupation is whether to travel around the world from west to east, or in the opposite direction.
But brands that want to actually promote to consumers within the show face a paradox: consumer culture has ceased to exist in the fictional world of the show, whose characters' preoccupation is survival.
That is a similar line of thinking presented over many years by Benedict, whose main preoccupation is growing secularism, and it is likely to be a central part of the discussions this weekend.
His allies say he was used as "a fuse" by his superiors, whose sole preoccupation was to protect the banking giant's interests.
Their preoccupations are mundane, yet vitally important.
