Sentence examples for preoccupied with something. from inspiring English sources

Daniel also seems to give off an air of being preoccupied with something going on outside the picture.

We often forget where we put our house keys because we were preoccupied with something else (absent-mindedness).

Yet two of the princes are instead preoccupied with something that the last Labour government has been accused of overlooking: apprenticeships.

The distinguished subjects are looking away from the camera, suggesting that they are preoccupied with something other than the creation of their public image.

As with all the Maigret novels, you feel the prose skims over events, as if it's somehow preoccupied with something else.

Mr. Gupta was preoccupied with something far more important: he was busy collecting letters on his behalf from his important friends and former colleagues ahead of his sentencing before Judge Jed S. Rakoff in late October, and afterward with preparing for his appeal.

Here Husserl was preoccupied with the question of how something like the constitution of numbers ever comes about.

There are outside stressors that are causing those security issues, which could be parents struggling to pay the bills or maybe everybody being preoccupied with a sick relative or something like this.

Steiner, himself trilingual to the point, he claims, of not knowing which was his first language, German, English or French, is preoccupied with the philosophical impossibility of something he does every day.

I think Tudor was preoccupied with that moment, trying to build something, a story, a vehicle, something around that moment.

However I wonder what all of this -- including the life without parole (a potential possibility) -- says about us as a society, and as individuals who likely see ourselves as too busy to preoccupy ourselves with something that seems indubitably savage.