Sentence examples for greatly preoccupied from inspiring English sources

The question of eligibility to the first Presidency of the Portuguese Republic was one which greatly preoccupied the Constituent Assembly at Lisbon.

Although Mr. Watkins's documents portray Mrs. Clinton as intensely interested in the firings, she told the committee investigators that she had been greatly preoccupied with other matters.

He was most influenced by the Florentine Antonio Pollaiuolo, with his sinuous, energetic line studies of the human body in motion, and by the Venetian Andrea Mantegna, an artist greatly preoccupied with classical themes and with precise linear articulation of the human figure.

The philosopher-mathematician G. W. F. Leibniz[20] (1646–1716) was greatly preoccupied with the problem of the composition of the continuum the "labyrinth of the continuum", as he called it.

Gone but by no means forgotten, Hal doesn't just live in Oliver's memory, he also greatly preoccupies it, crowding his son's thoughts, pushing them around, eclipsing them and, for stretches at a time, dominating this movie.

This problem, in one form or another, has preoccupied Dennett greatly, though he thinks he found the answer, in principle, as a very young man.

The sexual significance of owning Erasure albums had preoccupied him greatly during our previous interview about gay marriage, and now he appears to have inferred an awful lot from one gesture a migrant made to him during a recent visit to "the Jungle" camp in Calais.

Polls show that voters trust Republicans over Democrats on this subject by a huge margin, an advantage that matters greatly when the country is preoccupied by foreign policy.

He was preoccupied with death, which he feared greatly.

Questions of right and wrong, or indeed of personality and psychology, don't appear to preoccupy him greatly.

Brik's marriage, which preoccupies him greatly, occurs entirely offstage, which makes its demise a matter of little interest to the reader; likewise Rora's adventures during the Sarajevo siege, which have the further disadvantage of seeming both untrue and unconnected to anything else in the book.