The Guardian (or The Observer on Sundays) Bikram-practicing middle-class liberals preoccupied with ending all wars and rolling their own cigarettes.
She was probably the first writer in English to see that India's Westernizing middle class, so preoccupied with marriage, lent itself well to Jane Austenish comedies of manners.
Mr. Kerry painted the president as a latter-day Herbert Hoover, insensitive to the struggles of the middle class and preoccupied instead with making the already rich even better off.
Unlike the travel-as-personal-destiny ethos of Lonely Planet (which has its own blog, thorntree.lonelyplanet.com), tripadvisor is the province of mostly middle-class tourists preoccupied with middle-of-theroad concerns: how to avoid pickpockets, or where to stay in Paris with small children.
In smaller countries, Kapuscinski writes, "there is no equivalent of this class," which is preoccupied with "the scale of large numbers".Britain, a mostly peaceable, moderately rich, medium-sized, rainy country, doesn't generally require such thinking from its politicians.
He also questioned whether some members of the "Washington political class" are too preoccupied with questions about when the stories were published and who will benefit from them, rather than focusing on the substance of the reporting itself.
If one question preoccupied the thinking classes of the 1830s more than another it was time.
Lindheim noted that the hippoisie, part of the baby-boomer generation, was different from previous social classes in that its members weren't preoccupied with dialectical pursuits.
Ms. Alborova was an unruly 15-year-old, preoccupied with her friends and her classes, and she took it in — a small piece of information — and kept walking.
Kenneth B. Williams, an attendance officer in Community School District 17 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, was told that one middle school student had not been going to classes because a death in the family had preoccupied his mother.
