Sentence examples for preoccupy themselves from inspiring English sources
The film makes explicit the ways in which Poitier's movies preoccupy themselves with the exploration of his on-screen appeal.
It makes one suspect that the two peoples prefer to preoccupy themselves with this cruel ritual rather than attempt to solve the problem at its roots.
The ballparks will soon reopen and the players will talk about trying to make sense of it all and then they will go out and take batting practice, and preoccupy themselves with driving the ball into the gap.
THE age of male vanity -- the era that has resulted in L'Oréal hair color for men and magazine articles about C.E.O.'s who get oxygen facials -- seems to have wrought little for men who might have the greatest cause to preoccupy themselves with matters of appearance.
They may stick to inflexible routines, move in stereotyped and repetitive ways, or preoccupy themselves with parts of objects.
The two most important concepts that Christian mansplainers preoccupy themselves with when they have conversations with each other are "leadership" and "orthodoxy".
Our parents became adults sooner, preoccupied themselves with adult things.
Western leaders huffed and puffed and talked of sanctions, while others preoccupied themselves with the meaning of it all and whether confrontation was now back on the agenda.
Rather than preoccupying themselves with the drama that they have waded into, the Islanders say they spend most of their time thinking about getting ready for the postseason.
The young Mr. Samuelson's chief complaint against economists was that they preoccupied themselves with finer economic principles while all around them people were being thrown into bread lines.
"I'm concerned they are preoccupied themselves at a time when it's so important for parents to be tuned in in a very thoughtful, engaged way to the the kinds of things their kids are talking about," Dr. Bernstein said.
