Irony is one of the elements of tragedy, a subject with which Mamet is much occupied.
"My summer was pretty much occupied when it came to rehabbing the shoulder," he said.
But he, much occupied these days as a choreographer, is currently out of shape as a classical dancer.
Loyola was, in his last years, much occupied with Germany and India, to which he sent his famous followers Peter Canisius and Francis Xavier.
There is still lots of lightly used land – probably too much – occupied by former market sheds and temporary car parks.
And fourth, he was much occupied with accommodating the music and the action to the needs and the limitations of the singers.
In the first months of 1949, Beckett and Duthuit were much occupied with the paintings of their friend Bram van Velde, a Dutch artist living in Paris.
Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies," a film very much occupied with some of the grisly realities of recent history, nonetheless has the structure, and some of the atmosphere, of an ancient folk tale.
At this period Bentham's mind was much occupied with writing the work that was later published in French in 1811 by his admirer Étienne Dumont and entitled Théorie des peines et des récompenses.
