Sentence examples for Preoccupied with work from inspiring English sources

Are Americans preoccupied with work?

Or the parents find themselves preoccupied with work and debts.

By Elizabeth Minkel August 10, 2011 Are Americans preoccupied with work?

The gist: He shouldn't be pencil thin or stare too hard at shopping bills or be preoccupied with work.

Most of Ms. Storr's clients are single and too preoccupied with work to organize their personal lives, she says.

Both were preoccupied with work on their land and Mahmoud was effectively brought up by his grandfather.

The workforce is ageing and people are increasingly preoccupied with work-life balance and the ability to reconcile work and caring responsibilities.

Wrapped up in our selves and preoccupied with working out our salvation, we defeat our purpose.

When he started at Manual as a freshman, he'd been preoccupied with working as a drug runner for the Southside Sureños, a gang that he had joined three years earlier, at the age of eleven.

He became preoccupied with working out the logistics of his new destination, what would be happening during freshers' week, and ensuring he knew how to make scrambled eggs once he got there.

These were ideas simultaneously being explored in visual art, which was engaged in a similar resetting of boundaries as Pop, Minimalism and conceptual art replaced Abstract Expressionism, with which modern dance was closely aligned; for one, both were preoccupied with working on the floor, as in the paintings of Jackson Pollock and the dances of Martha Graham.