Sentence examples for busy oneself from inspiring English sources

To muddle, with the same origin, has a more Mr. Magoo-like quality, defined in the O.E.D. as "to busy oneself in a confused, unmethodical and ineffective manner".

I think of you: you at least are a perpetual book, one can chat with you, one can busy oneself loving you: that doesn't pall as other pleasures do.

"If I should learn, in some quite casual way, / That you were gone, not to return again —," she muses in Sonnet V, she would not cry in a public place, like a train; no, she'd "raise my eyes and read with greater care / Where to store furs and how to treat the hair". This is classic Millay – how else can one grapple with the end of a love affair than to instinctively busy oneself with the mundane?

She also appreciates how difficult a baby's utter dependency can feel to women who have prized independence in their professional lives, and how - in a culture in thrall to busyness - what an enormous change is required to refrain from busying oneself with a long list of tasks in order to match the baby's pace.

Which can be worse, because then one must make oneself busy.

For example, a qualitative study on coping in Sri Lanka after a tsunami disaster found that many participants found that keeping busy and distracting oneself could be a successful way of dealing with stress [ 40].

This transformation took us beyond history, to an 'end of history' in which time was converted 'into a sort of infinite space', becoming an 'eternal present' where one 'just keeps oneself busy, because nothing more can happen' (Ewald, 1999: 85–6).

Living with a chronic illness can be burdensome, and having to deal with pain, treatment adherence, and low energy level may increase the difficulty of taking the initiative to keep oneself busy, ensuring that one has enough interests on a regular basis (e.g., a hobby) to keep active, and maintaining positive thinking.

Salamanca is the largest city by far since leaving Seville, and it's something of a shock to find oneself in busy streets being jostled by students and tourists, and hearing languages other than Spanish for the first time in many days.

Researchers have found that mere perception of oneself as a busy person — what we call a busy mindset — can actually increase people's self-control, via a boost in self-importance.

We found that the perception of oneself as a busy person — having what we call a busy mindset — can actually increase people's self-control via a boost in self-importance.