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Sentence Examples Home to her were the harsh, cruel streets in a city too preoccupied to care. Roo is busy planning the wedding on Thursday, but Harvey is preoccupied with the surf carnival. It's about a nomadic storyteller in India named Bram who's preoccupied with Dracula. Her gaze wandered to Christopher almost yearningly, whose attention was preoccupied by Matt. As a society we are far too preoccupied with measuring things in terms of tangible commercial results. Beauty is temporary, yet we live in a world that is preoccupied with looks. While he was preoccupied, I took the rocks out of my pocket, one in each hand, and bashed them on each side of his head as hard as I could. A culture that is preoccupied with the self and with self-gratification is a culture that is moving away from civilization and toward chaos. It is a film that tackles the big questions that have preoccupied all the great philosophers and thinkers down through the ages. Composers and music theorists have long been preoccupied with the relationship between sound and space. A little more leaning around the tree and I saw two white horses, grazing while their masters were still preoccupied. He's just leaning back, looking preoccupied chewing on the nail of his first finger. Here Turner had moved away from recording topography and was preoccupied with achieving specific effects of light and tone. They are so preoccupied with puffing up their own image and self-esteem that everything else just has to go hang. When she was satisfied that he was preoccupied she pushed with all her strength, shoving Eric off her and onto the floor. Much of this debate so far has been preoccupied with the hardware of the military. But, right now, I was probably just preoccupied with the colours for my kitchen. Research on Arrernte society has been preoccupied with the mythology and traditions dealing with the ancestral beings and associated ceremonies. Seth is very demanding of his boarders, insisting on advanced payment in full, and is preoccupied with maintaining a respectable house. Tolkien was more preoccupied with his invention of an artificial mythology than with character development. Show More Sentences It didn't help that Jeff was so preoccupied that he answered in monosyllables, but Denise didn't think of that. Certainly Dionne, preoccupied as he is with his game of gotcha, makes no effort to refute it. Mortimer was one of the most powerful marcher barons of Henry III's reign and preoccupied with resisting Welsh advance. He was unexcited by the subject of the novel, and was in any case preoccupied with his impending departure for America. Marcia scribbled furiously in her own notebook, apparently quite preoccupied with whatever part of her story she was writing. All this seemed extremely close to the kind of materialization of time that preoccupied Einstein. We are so preoccupied with the concept of milk as it is so fresh and so clean, with its wonderful advertising and catchy slogans. Well, it should have been yesterday, but I was preoccupied with preparing for my French oral. In Japan, he sees political parties solely occupied in securing power and preoccupied in increasing strength and influence. Scott has always been preoccupied with diffusing the distinction between high art and popular culture. Velazquez painted a face of preoccupied gravity, of someone with great concerns. Thethi was married into a feudal family and her husband, Unni Namboodiri, who was preoccupied with poojas and religious rites, ignored her. So preoccupied was she that she failed to notice a small floor lamp and ran smack into it, books scattering everywhere. The religion of the Pilgrims did not seem to be much preoccupied with questions of cosmology and cosmogony. Apparently the heiress needs a new bestie now Nicole is all preoccupied with the baby. He has printed out his latest graph in black and white and is contentedly preoccupied with colouring in the pieces of pie by hand. She was too preoccupied with remaining insistently silent and had her mind set on the letter she was drafting to John. However, the witches were not particularly preoccupied with making a clean job of things. He didn't seem to mind much and as he leaned in close to the girl I skittered out deciding he was further preoccupied. With the party leadership preoccupied with the elections the decision on his successor is pending. Show More Sentences With a film so preoccupied with tone, style and visuals the lead performances are all the more important. The conflict between the votaries of Hindutva votaries and the Left-secular intellectuals has preoccupied the media. The series expands on the collage theme that has preoccupied her for the past decade or so. I am so preoccupied with my obsessions that I am not capable of seeing one step back or one step ahead. On the whole, the evidence suggests that he was generally too preoccupied with his North American dreams and schemes to do solid onomastic work. Above her, the sky was studded with stars, but she was too preoccupied to notice. It is now preoccupied by a fight with the left for control of the party at its congress this month. I was preoccupied with this useless energy when a huge man approached with an intent look on his face. The magistrate was preoccupied with other matters and was not listening closely. Although he makes provision for his soul, it is only in general terms and he is not preoccupied with the matter. I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him. Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes. Her first two collections were very much preoccupied with relationships, most of which were unsatisfactory. She rested comfortably in the lotus position and seemed to be quite preoccupied. He plays patriarch an ailing archeologist who's preoccupied with funeral rituals. People here are preoccupied with money and resigned to the pressure to compete for their daily bread. That represents a great departure from being preoccupied with loot and spoils of war, and indeed all worldly gains. I've been doing a lot of stuff at work which is about designing social networks and their topologies, and peterme seems similarly preoccupied. Olschok seems more preoccupied by attempting to thrill the audience than he his trying at make sure sparks fly between the two leads. Arriving on a brutally cold morning in April, I found her preoccupied with getting her gallery installations ready for a crowd of collectors. Show More Sentences So preoccupied were the bears that they paid no attention to us for the whole duration of our 1,5 hour watch. Understandably her mind was preoccupied with things other than sausage rolls, quiches and crisps. Though he may still be a fundamentalist of art, he is no longer preoccupied by eschatology. She is preoccupied with the supernatural, in this particular instance ghostly presences. Despite being somewhat preoccupied with material and professional affairs you manage to attend to children, family and loved ones with devotion and care. David Cameron and his resurgent Conservatives now threaten to bring about a very different form of climate change to that which has preoccupied Liberal minds in recent years. In both instances, rival companies have been too preoccupied with eluding prosecution to consider sharing collective knowledge that might avert further accidents. Living vicariously through his teammates was better than being home, preoccupied each day with his eroding strength. He seemed to be tormentedly and wholly preoccupied with his own thoughts. When I was in Rome in the fall, I became more preoccupied than normal by the idea that machines might unforgivingly record and store all memories. Although in the first years of his reign Henry was preoccupied with Norman affairs, he was not as free to concentrate on them as he would have liked. More than ever, they are preoccupied with pragmatic matters, such as the lowest common denominator in the political math problem known as the electoral college. Despite Ellison's claims for the agelessness and timelessness of the novel's concerns, however, Invisible Man is a novel deeply preoccupied with time and history. Some were preoccupied with God, others were atheistic to the core. Over the course of the century, the city obviously evolved in various directions, and the exhibition delineates particular angles and themes that preoccupied succeeding eras. Godric had been his personal attendant since his sixteenth year and the man had been just as preoccupied about the state of Briar's appearance then as he was now. The Prime Minister is clearly alive to the danger of being seen as neglectful of his home front because he is too preoccupied with foreign affairs. Thoughts of my mother's travels preoccupied me intermittently on the train journey to Naples, the point of disembarkation for Antipodean visitors to Rome. Too preoccupied with the grave responsibility of preserving the safety of our great nation from evildoers to recall exact sequence of events over 26 months ago. As the evangelist most preoccupied with the formation of the church, Luke emphasizes the importance of the bestowal of the Holy Spirit in both his gospel and Acts. Show More Sentences The audience becomes preoccupied with this sort of schoolboy brawl. What goes beyond the cataloguing of the hidden structures, the invisible powers, seductions, and numerous offenses we have been preoccupied with for so long? By the time the panel of academics who adjudicate on such matters in the States have had their final say on the matter, the world will be preoccupied with other things. Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of caricature have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation. They still hadn't managed to redo their rooms, partially because of the lack of free time, partially because they had been too preoccupied with the fights. It is preoccupied with hypothetical origins and conjectural future ends. Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off. Scots seemed chiefly preoccupied with the folk memory of the Clearances. Meanwhile, Washington has been preoccupied with all-consuming battles over debt ceilings and sequestration. The postwar years reignited discussions about the relevance of abstraction versus representation, an issue that had preoccupied many artists before the war. These polemics, though, take on again and again an elegiac ring, as he settles accounts with the great figures who had preoccupied him throughout his life. Foxx is hopeful that young people are evolving past the point of being preoccupied with race. Rather than rethinking our fundamental assumptions about organizational effectiveness, we have stayed preoccupied with charts and plans and designs. For two weeks the shuttle had been looping the globe to the obliviousness of the vast majority of the world's population, which was largely preoccupied with the fate of Iraq. He ends up with a highly pragmatistic conception of theoretical language hardly worthy of someone preoccupied with a rigorously scientific conception of the world. Pop culture glamorizes their muscular bodies but, at the same time, is more preoccupied than ever with slimming women down to an impossible ideal. You may be a little puzzled that two of the country's biggest intelligences should be so preoccupied by such a trifling matter as the future of a second-rate footie outfit. Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions. And how can she believe men are imprisoned in this ornamentalism against which women have already revolted when women are as preoccupied by their looks as ever? Can you say something about your poems being so preoccupied with grief and loss, and the suffering brought to you by the suffering of another person? Show More Sentences Chapter five is preoccupied with Bibi Titi and other women in urban political activism. Moreau noted that ornithology in this period was preoccupied with the geographical distributions of various species of birds. House of Representatives is understandably preoccupied with figuring out how to fibrillate the nation's moribund economy. Meanwhile, we were preoccupied, mastering supralapsarianism and measuring skirts and hair. When the Vandals raided Sicily in 440, the Western Roman Empire was too preoccupied with war with Gaul to react. He was preoccupied with the question of whether fairies should be depicted in theatrical plays, since they did not exist. However, he remained preoccupied with his first wife's death and tried to overcome his remorse by writing poetry. It could have neither, with the president preoccupied by Watergate and the Congress concerned with impeachment, he said. Early ornithologists were preoccupied with matters of species identification. The British were preoccupied in rebuilding Europe after the apparent final defeat of Napoleon. Fish have been preoccupied feeding on big columns of daphnia as well as the brown beetles and green weevils which have blown onto the surface. I'm going to switch my self-preoccupation for being preoccupied with my friends. Bush is saying that he won't be preoccupied by Cold War calculations of how many MIRVed warheads can dance on the head of a treaty. It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy. Is he siding with his kissing cousin over his wife, or is he preoccupied with problems of his own? Most of the punditocracy has been preoccupied with how technology enables energy alternatives to oil, gas, or coal. That debate preoccupied politics in the 1670s and 1680s and precipitated the formation of the Whig party and the Glorious Revolution. The City of London, preoccupied with its own grievances, refused to make any loans to the king, as did foreign powers. The question of life after death has preoccupied many philosophers. For instance, there is orthorexia, in which patients become obsessively preoccupied with eating healthy foods, eventually morphing into anorexia. Show More Sentences Now, few filmmakers are as preoccupied with time as Richard Linklater. Charles was mostly preoccupied with the Bretons, whose border he shared and who insurrected on at least two occasions and were easily put down. The Prime Minister was preoccupied with nonbudgetary concerns such as the war. He was too preoccupied with kingly matters to turn the cakes. Marx longed to return to his economic studies, as he had left these studies in 1844 and had been preoccupied with other projects over the last thirteen years. Neruda was now completely preoccupied with writing Odes to Washerwomen, to Dead Millionaires and a switchbladed bit of verse called The United Fruit Company. I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday. Canadian firms, preoccupied with prospective investment opportunities because of high inflation, no longer focused on innovation and productivity improvements. No doubt most activists so preoccupied with how far we didn't go or how far he didn't go are blindly oblivious to how far we've come under the very tone set by just one man. Liz Karter, so preoccupied with the plight of addicts she can't even spell her own surname correctly, believes betting shops can ease problem gambling. He was preoccupied with morality, using history as a moral essay. One, for example, shows the remodelling of the Irnham parish church, emphasizing how he was preoccupied with his activities in preparation for his death. Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks. For the next few years, the emperor would be preoccupied with internal revolts in Anatolia, while the Bulgarians expanded their realm in the Balkans. For reasons that puzzle a reviewer with a background in French history, Germanists still seem preoccupied, either as supporters or opponents, with the Sonderweg. The issue has long preoccupied paleobotanists, with competing theories seeking to explain how angiosperms supplanted ferns and gymnosperms in many regions of the globe. A Lutheran must understand the language that scriptures are presented in, and should not be so preoccupied by error so as to prevent understanding. On Tuesday, while every other MP was preoccupied with the Iraq drossier debate, the only regime change on Cook's mind related to his fitness routine. During a stop, the head constable decided to get off and stretch his legs, an activity he became so preoccupied with that the train, and his prisoner, left without him. Examples from Classical Literature He studied her body again, that passionless, preoccupied frown on his face. The toy duck was still in the soap-dish, but I was too preoccupied to give it a thought. Helena stood preoccupied and hesitant, hardly hearing what he said, as I fancy. Long, as if the person knocking were preoccupied in mind, and forgot to leave off. Katherine was neither preoccupied nor distrait, or unamused even by the small accidents and absurdities of travel. Yet, like all men who are preoccupied with their own broadness, he was exceptionally narrow. Also in this year Whistler was very preoccupied with the art of lithography. And he began to pirouette slowly round the room with a preoccupied expression. Indeed, egotistically preoccupied with his own side of the case, he had scarcely bestowed a thought on hers. And, receiving an affirmatory nod from the preoccupied gambler, he went on. The traveler was certainly too hurried and preoccupied to think of doughnuts. Even the preoccupied girl looked on in fascination at a rapidity of unwasted movement suggesting a conjuring feat. If he were so entirely preoccupied with this creature, he would not woo me. Godfrey was too painfully preoccupied to feel a twinge of self-reproach at this undeserved praise. There was a merry party around the table at dinner, though now and then Ned noticed that Tom had an abstracted and preoccupied air. His mind was preoccupied with unraveling the mystery of Rita. A rose lay beside her, and if she now and then glanced at the flower, it was with no infraction of her usual preoccupied air. The Neapolitan was one of those most preoccupied with esthetics. After a little rambling talk, the lawyer led up to the subject which so disagreeably preoccupied his mind. Firstly, my mind was too preoccupied to be able to take in the subject clearly. Show More Sentences The villa had been repainted and decorated, and it looked fresher, and even, to their preoccupied minds, appeared more attractive than ever. I was preoccupied by the absence of the Captain during our sitting of the day before, and hoping to see him to-day. Helen was preoccupied with her saxifrage and her purple gloves. His mind had been so preoccupied that he had forgotten about the ditch. Ora and Detis were very quiet and preoccupied when they entered the nomad. Tito began to be much preoccupied with her impending duties. In the later canvas, Renoir is less preoccupied with details. Her preoccupied naturalness was in strange contrast to her father's pomposity and to William's military rigidity. Then, little by little, he became preoccupied with spiritualistic thoughts. But Eli ate sparingly, and with a preoccupied and solemn look. She was smiling and preoccupied as we stepped within the inclosure. And the gaze he turned upon his foraging horses was quite preoccupied. But here, preoccupied though he was, he could not fail to notice the picturesqueness of the place. For a long while he was preoccupied by an intense desire to assuage it. She nodded assent, listlessly, evidently preoccupied with something else. Jain monastic authors are highly preoccupied with the guardedness and modesty of nuns because the nuns' conduct makes a statement about the uprightness of the monks. Lorry, and was altogether in an absent and preoccupied state. The sonneteer clearly seems preoccupied with the physical beauty of the young man, for example, and Sonnet 20 seems on the face of it to indicate a sexual interest. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily. I've been too preoccupied with Epsom salts and ice packs to notice. Show More Sentences Nevertheless, something nebulous, preoccupied, vague, in his bearing and regard, marked him as one who probably had no very definite aim or concern about his material future. His mind seemed preoccupied, and there were strange pauses in his conversation, abrupt changes of topic, and an inconsecutiveness that was bewildering. Find more words! 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