As universitas magistrorum et scholarium, the university was a community of scholars and students gathered around books and preoccupied with study and the search for truth.
Still, I was so preoccupied with studying for my oral exams (English, not economics) that I rarely made it past the inscribed title pages of those volumes by the living and the famous which I plucked from the Galbraiths' shelves.
Our middle daughter, 16 at the time, had started going out more with her friends, and one or the other of us parents was usually preoccupied with work or study.
Are Americans preoccupied with work?
Until his 30s, Edward was too preoccupied with his studies, progressing smoothly through Princeton and Harvard graduate school, developing his critical methodologies and indulging his passion for music, especially the piano, at which he achieved an almost professional level of competence, to take much interest in the politics of his homeland.
As far as anyone could tell, I was preoccupied with my studies.
Samuel and Hadassah Zenwirte of Tiberias, an elderly couple, said they had an unmarried daughter, Inbal, who was preoccupied with the study of law.
He did not do so, however, for he had become preoccupied with new technical studies; earlier than others, he had discovered Impressionism faces and bodies devoured by the surrounding light and becoming one with the atmosphere.
While these scenes look like fanciful reconstructions (especially when seen through the lens of American cinema, which drew heavily on such canvases for inspiration), Gérôme was in fact greatly preoccupied with historical accuracy, studying archaeological excavations and antique weapons.
Candidates for office had been preoccupied with the subject.
Of late he's preoccupied with charitable work.
