Sentence examples for preoccupied with determining from inspiring English sources

Although mainly preoccupied with determining members of Kajagoogoo's favourite colours, the recently defunct pop weekly Smash Hits wasn't averse to tackling the political issues that mattered in Thatcher's Britain either, as Mark Frith's lovingly assembled The Best of Smash Hits: The 80s confirms (Little, Brown, £14.99).

By laying stress on certain inner experiences and intuitive truths revealed only to the initiated, Pythagoreanism seems to have represented a soul-directed subjectivism alien to the mainstream of pre-Socratic Greek thought centring on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor, which was preoccupied with determining what the basic cosmic substance is.

Andrée wrote that he was preoccupied with observing himself to determine whether he was afraid.

While some of her characters strive for recognition as artists, others (often those who have tried for this and failed) are preoccupied with the artists themselves, determined to experience their creative gifts at secondhand.

Most Russians are too preoccupied with survival to decide.

He has invented a narrator who is preoccupied with the ways in which his destiny has been determined.

An example item is, "I find myself preoccupied with the future or the past".

She's preoccupied with age.

Mr. Cuomo was preoccupied with safety.

Are Americans preoccupied with work?

Their minds are preoccupied with oil.