On the phone this evening, Dr. Othman sounded composed but preoccupied; it was hard to hear her in the noisy clinic.
With my wife, Maja, still out of town on business and the girls, Juliette and Louise, preoccupied, it was again a strange weekend for viewing.
Another reason for optimism is that the EU is on the verge of drawing a line under the institutional crisis which has been preoccupying it for several years.
Gone but by no means forgotten, Hal doesn't just live in Oliver's memory, he also greatly preoccupies it, crowding his son's thoughts, pushing them around, eclipsing them and, for stretches at a time, dominating this movie.
Some firms may also choose to treat the switch to the euro as an opportunity to gain a strategic edge over competitors, meaning they do more than the minimum required.Such flexibility makes the switch to the euro quite unlike the other big challenge preoccupying IT departments, the millennium bug.
The most important element of baiting is to waste as much of the scammer's time as possible – when a scammer is preoccupied, it prevents him from conning genuine victims.
Try to preoccupy yourself, it will be a great distraction from your insecurities and will give you a reprieve on your anxiety.
If we don't get worried or preoccupied when it goes down, it can come right back up!
It is a starkly empty film, preoccupied as it is with the thought that people themselves might be hollow.
None of this appeared in a previously published selection of the author's last journals, and it certainly leavens the current version, preoccupied as it is with the details of Beaton's own illnesses and deterioration.
