Sentence examples for recently preoccupied from inspiring English sources

Refreshingly, Taylor and Bowker eschew an anachronistic condemnation of Orwell's attitude toward Jews, a topic that has recently preoccupied Orwell revisionists.

Still, the idea of ad bugs raises a thorny issue that has recently preoccupied Madison Avenue, marketers and the media as the sluggish economy dampens demand for commercial time: How much is too much when it comes to peddling products as consumers grow increasingly tired of -- and are more easily able to avoid -- conventional TV spots?

Mr. Gibbs has recently been preoccupied with decorating his latest house in Morocco and his new cottage in Clifton Hampton, in anticipation of his retirement.

But since moving to the Senate in 2011, he has made little impact on the national scene.In this section The billion-dollar fraud Own goals Follow the leader Correction: Cuba ReprintsMr Neves has recently been preoccupied with internal wrangling.

I have recently been preoccupied with the meaning of life and expressed my fear that maybe all my life was spent building what amounts to a sandcastle.

Gary Blasi, a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law, said the promise to fund new housing and services for the 26,000 homeless people in L.A. was a positive step for a city government that has recently been preoccupied with empowering the police to crack down on encampments.

Recently, he was preoccupied with the addition of a hot dog to the lunch menu, an idea he got from Nora Ephron.

Ms. Mashutina had seemed somber and preoccupied recently, Ms. Antonova said, and on Dec. 21 she set down this entry in her blog: "It seems to me that I have very little time left".

Mr. Simmons, who is against accounting for stock options as an employee cost, told a reporter at The Globe and Mail of Toronto that chief executives had recently grown too preoccupied with director independence.

Chang told The Times that police exaggerate the gang's activities in the U.S. and that United Bamboo members here have been preoccupied recently with trying to ensure the safety of Chen, who was arrested in Taiwan along with 300 other gang members in a Nov. 13 government crackdown.

But until recently Chevy has seemed preoccupied with the SS performance versions.