QUALITY OF STUDY Sometimes, students of all ages become so anxious about succeeding that they become preoccupied with quantity - reading as many books or articles as they can - rather than REAL learning.
Eventually he volunteered to read to the children, a practice he said continued for almost 10 years, though he considered the books he read "dreadful," preoccupied with the "here and now" of teenage angst and divorce.
Irish critics, Enright told us, were preoccupied with the "Irishness" of what they read and discuss, but the large reading public in Ireland was different and much less worried about how a book depicted their country.
So is the man who runs a poor, drought-ridden state, where 40% of the 76m people cannot read, preoccupied with an irrelevant exercise in e-government?
When better to read a book preoccupied with deciding who one is going to be for the rest of one's life?
He's preoccupied with ordering fancy veal dinners for Schopenhauer and reading aloud to him from "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
As I was listening to the speakers — most of them brilliant, some of them probably better read than heard — I was preoccupied with questions.
For the three days he was in there, re-reading Fatal Shore, pissing in a bucket, we were preoccupied with him.
Government health clinics are understandably preoccupied with life-threatening maladies and urban optical shops typically shun simple reading glasses in favour of costly, high-margin prescription glasses.
She's preoccupied with age.
