9 August LIZ FRASER "In my later teens I became intensely preoccupied with the work of Liz Fraser and the Cocteau Twins.
Her letter was that of a person so intensely preoccupied and so passionately aggrieved that she simply could not be bothered to explain what she was talking about.
Indeed, in "Six Children" Mr Ford, a lecturer at University College London, seems intensely preoccupied not only with the grandfather of American verse, but also with the Mau Mau insurrection and the Münster Anabaptists.
In and Out the Houses also highlights a part of Taylor's writing that might feel antique in detail, but remains absolutely current in its emotional truth: the isolated villagers are intensely preoccupied with what others think of them.
The Herald Tribune, whose coverage of the trial itself was admirably impartial, did not at the time indulge in any such side excursions, but in the days immediately following the trial it became intensely preoccupied with statements criticizing the Judge.
He may be, as many people suspect, fundamentally shrewd and calculating in his professional life, but, whether he is working or not, his manner is that of an eager youth, intensely preoccupied with those offhand, intimate forms of human communication that have been of such value to him in lulling his models into a mood of relaxed spontaneity.
Shah also told Graves that he was "intensely preoccupied at the moment with the carrying forward of ecstatic and intuitive knowledge".
In his youth, he was intensely preoccupied with trains and unable to develop peer relationships.
The near-simultaneous appearance of all these movies is to some degree a coincidence, but it throws into relief the curious fact that early 21st-century culture, in Europe and America, on screen and in books, is intensely, perhaps morbidly preoccupied with the great political trauma of the mid-20th century.
But worn less intensely, it had panache, and also function, not a quality I'm generally preoccupied with but one that now seemed pressing.
Although Mr. Watkins's documents portray Mrs. Clinton as intensely interested in the firings, she told the committee investigators that she had been greatly preoccupied with other matters.
