Rehearsals are not easy; the musicians can be unfocussed, because they are preoccupied with worries from their real jobs and their personal lives.
I guess that I did, too, although he was often aloof and preoccupied with worries about work and this mysterious illness that the doctors called encephalitis, a swelling of the brain caused by a virus.
Depressed people are not so preoccupied with worrying about what might happen to them in the future.
U.S. officials are determined not to be preoccupied with worries about an Israeli intervention, as was the first Bush administration in 1991.
Patients' everyday lives were characterised by poverty and stigma: they were preoccupied with worries about basic needs such as food, employment and transport to collect medication, and described feelings of isolation and experiences of discrimination which added to the burden of living with HIV.
I make a conscious effort to unplug and be fully present when I'm not working, and try not to get preoccupied with work worries.
Anyone preoccupied with work or worried about the new baby sitter might just as well stay home, because Ron McLarty, the playwright, has chosen an unusual format that calls on two actors to portray several characters while also shifting between internal and external dialogue.
As Gee and I went through the Austrian pavilion, my mind was preoccupied with the worry that Daddy would be repeating yesterday's performance.
When we are stressed, we may be preoccupied with deadlines, worries about getting through our commitments, and fears about letting people down.
Are Americans preoccupied with work?
I had lost this part of myself for too long, I had been preoccupied with my own worries about being thin.
