Sentence examples for it preoccupied from inspiring English sources

It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself.

It preoccupied Shakira, of course: just as she was getting the attention of this powerful audience, they might be newly able to plead poverty!

One can find a lot of garbled stuff in Assange's early writings: some of it no more fully formed than thought scribbles, some of it laced with bravado or anger, some of it preoccupied with information warfare rather than the modes of conventional journalism.

Among the things that fall from above in this first collection of short fiction (much of it preoccupied with loss) are a deadly bucket that crashes through a schoolroom window, rain, turning leaves and a gigantic black spot that eclipses the sun and threatens to destroy an entire town.

Then their opponents became embroiled in a leadership contest so ludicrous that it preoccupied the media and left them to get on having a proper post-election holiday.

And it preoccupied Luis Alberto Moreno, who has advised Shakira and whose bank is one of the principal vehicles for Latin American development.

DUBLIN — Even as it remains preoccupied with its struggling economy, Ireland is in the midst of a profound transformation, as rapid as it is revolutionary: it is recalibrating its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church, an institution that has permeated almost every aspect of life here for generations.

Page 12 CONFLICT OF FAITH IN IRELAND Even as it remains preoccupied with its struggling economy, Ireland is in the midst of a profound transformation, as rapid as it is revolutionary: It is recalibrating its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church, an institution that has permeated almost every aspect of life in the nation for generations.

To many, it is the mildest form of patriotism, and it long preoccupied German romantic writers like Novalis, Hölderlin and Eichendorff.

If anything, the museum's tale is too sweepingly abstract; it is so preoccupied with multiple perspectives that it does not provide a strong sense of the people who embodied them.

"Middlesex" may be an entirely different sort of book -- it's longer, more discursive and funnier, for a start -- but it's equally preoccupied with rifts.