He let himself become preoccupied with other activities or let his mind drift to other things.
Thus, 425 was less decisive than Thucydides sometimes suggests, perhaps because he was preoccupied with the activities of the Athenian Cleon.
In most classroom contexts, teachers are preoccupied with academic activities in pursuit of the schools' successes; often in the form of their students gaining as many A's as possible.
Internal security advice shared among the intelligence agencies was often as preoccupied with the activities of journalists as with more conventional threats such as foreign intelligence, hackers or criminals.
Poincaré credited his sudden mathematical insight to "unconscious work," an ability to mull over the mathematics while he was preoccupied with unrelated activities, like talking to a friend on the bus.
Writer gives the reasons why she is preoccupied with mental activities: 1) The thoughtlessness of evil as demonstrated by the Nazi Adolf Eichmann at his trial in Jerusalem; 2) What are we doing when we do nothing but think?
Writer gives the reasons why she is preoccupied with mental activities: 1) The thoughtlessness of evil as demonstrated by the Nazi Adolf… REFLECTIONS about memories of the poet Wystan Auden, who died Sept. 28, 1973.
It has been difficult for the cluster to engage with dedicated and qualified staff members from the cluster programs: Sometimes programs do not have such staff and at other times they are preoccupied with survival activities.
The owners shy from taking risks in pursuit of growth; perhaps they are preoccupied with other financial activities such as investing in real estate or the stock market, paying their children's college expenses, or providing for impending retirement.
I told him there they were all preoccupied with health and activities like yoga.
Doodle, absent-minded scrawl or scribble, usually executed in some unexpected place, such as the margin of a book or manuscript or a blotting pad when the doodler is preoccupied with some other activity, such as attending a meeting or lecture.
