Sentence examples for less preoccupied than from inspiring English sources

In the Teller pictures of Hotel Il Pellicano, people from a new generation of hotel guests seem far less preoccupied than their predecessors were with appearing soigné and chic.

According to study researcher Allen McConnell: "Pet owners had greater self-esteem, were more physically fit, tended to be less lonely, were more conscientious, were more extroverted, tended to be less fearful and tended to be less preoccupied than nonowners".

The predominative nature of this asset has been well stated by Pierce Egan, the Edward Gibbon and Sir Thomas Malory of the old London prize ring, who was less preoccupied than Broun with ultimate implications.

A modern German sociologist, Jürgen Habermas, linked the coffee houses with what he called the "rise of a public space" outside the control of the state, or, as we might say now, civil society.But if British liberals were keen on free speech, they were much less preoccupied than their French contemporaries were with its forms and flourishes.

Ms. Ghatti is more of a singer than Kilo Kish, though she too is less preoccupied with technique than feeling and mood.

He's a buoyant lyricist less preoccupied with flash than with sly wit and self-aggrandizement, modes he giddily employs through most of this mixtape.

They see news media less preoccupied with the news than with boosting their own status in the entertainment firmament that now literally owns most of them.

It's less preoccupied with emotional escalation than some of director Hirokazu Koreeda's more acclaimed works, and more moving for it.

As Yang, Grey, and Pope [ 47] revealed, Asian males were less preoccupied with body image than Western males and they discussed interesting reasons why in Western cultures more emphasis is placed on male appearance (e.g. media exposure, decline in traditional male roles).

It may not make Cuba more secluded to what it already is, but it will certainly hurt any advances by Cuban social entrepreneurs that are less preoccupied with past communist ghosts than a more inclusive and interactive society.

Moreover, the frequency of serum potassium measurements in the monotherapy group of the non-internal departments is relatively low, which may reflect the fact that physicians working in non-internal departments are less preoccupied with serum electrolyte levels than their counterparts working in internal medicine departments.