Sentence examples for of preoccupied from inspiring English sources

I tried talking to the players but I only got a sort of preoccupied response.

"Nobody less narcissistic than Iris can well be imagined," Bayley writes, and observes that, as Alzheimer's closed in, "Iris's own lack of a sense of identity seemed to float her more gently into its world of preoccupied emptiness".

They seem to perfectly capture a fear, floating in the culture, that a generation of preoccupied parents has been raising a generation of children full of sophisticated knowledge that is useless when the power goes out or the batteries die.

F: "Even off the court she existed in the zone, which felt like a kind of preoccupied pressure behind her eyebrows, an alert drowsiness or focused dumbness that persisted no matter what she was doing".

"First of all, I'm kind of preoccupied with my financial situation," she said, "and No. 2, five or six years ago I might be able to speak really clearly about how I feel about things, but now I'm just so exhausted with having to explain myself all the time.

As a young postdoctoral researcher, this was the first time I was involved in such a large project, and from the very beginning I was impressed with the calm, but at the same time very decided manner with which Thomas moderated discussions amongst a bunch of preoccupied, too-busy-to-think scientists.

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.

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.

Mr. Putin touched on the subject of foreign policy only briefly, apparently a sign of how preoccupied he is with domestic concerns.

In the peculiar vocabulary of Washington, Democrats who wish to be thought of as preoccupied with defense issues — and no one seeking elected office wants to be thought of as anything but firm on matters of national security — are frequently described by their staffs as "muscular," or "robust," or "hard-nosed," or "forward-leaning".

In the peculiar vocabulary of Washington, Democrats who wish to be thought of as preoccupied with defense issues and no one seeking elected office wants to be thought of as anything but firm on matters of national security—are frequently described by their staffs as "muscular," or "robust," or "hard-nosed," or "forward-leaning".