I would look down on them for being preoccupied by something quite so trivial as writing about children and meaning in their marriage".
It is not the first time this has happened, but the sheer scale of the shortfall $38 billion over the next two years makes the failure worse.Meanwhile, Governor Gray Davis is preoccupied by something else.
Moreover, their physiological state can change rapidly, such that one day they are fine and the next day they are preoccupied by something else.
Stevens is much preoccupied by "greatness", which, for him, means something very like restraint.
Now 55 – something he seems preoccupied by – and grey, he no longer rampages around the stage, but his wordplay hurtles across countless subjects.
As far back as I remember, this was something that I was extremely preoccupied by.
"Being willing to say, 'All of these things are bad, but we can work on making something better.' To be preoccupied by the ethical ramifications of your actions, and to strip away most of the limits on how, ethically, you can behave".
Your ears are overwhelmed and preoccupied by the roar of the engine, but this, too, is something you must be as attuned to as the differing cries of a baby.
Ive was worn out, and preoccupied by the launch, and, Brunner said, by the thought of "doing something like this without Steve".
It is like a toupee made by a wigmaker, and he would have done something about it had he not been a person without vanity, happily preoccupied by intellectual things.
A controversial fertility company called OvaScience is preoccupied by an enduring mystery in human biology why eggs fail and the palpable hope that we can do something about it.
