Sentence examples for long been preoccupied from inspiring English sources

McCann has long been preoccupied with the Portugese term "saudade", the longing for something lost.

Philosophers have long been preoccupied by gesture.

He'd long been low-key, long had an air of knowing semi-spirituality, long been preoccupied with smoking weed.

During the 1991 wulf war, Mr. Hussein, who has long been preoccupied with personal security, dropped from sight.

Assange has long been preoccupied with electronic surveillance a real and growing problem but he has become increasingly vehement that Western democracies have become nascent totalitarian states.

Agricultural entrepreneurs reckon that such innovations could allow the country to grow more of its own food.The Gulf countries have long been preoccupied by the question of how to feed their people.

I had lost this part of myself for too long, I had been preoccupied with my own worries about being thin.

Labour has been preoccupied elsewhere.

Van Gogh may have been preoccupied with madness; Picasso preoccupied by sex; Rothko was probably preoccupied with depression.

Jim Shepard has always been preoccupied by history.

Such later collections as Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1994) and The Urge to Travel Long Distances (2005) are preoccupied with the pastoral landscape of Minnesota.