Sentence examples for that occupied him from inspiring English sources

It calls on some basic themes that occupied him, such as exile, Israel, the Diaspora, and more.

He thus anticipated both his later narrative paintings and the small, informal group portraits, or "conversation pieces," that occupied him in the years immediately after this auspicious debut.

In work that occupied him to the end of his life, he traveled the world, testifying, lobbying and meeting with government officials, airline executives and bereaved families.

One of the writing projects that occupied him during my visit was a personal summing up of what he had learned from life, which had been commissioned by the editor of the Saturday Review, Norman Cousins.

Stravinsky, even in this clear compositional style that occupied him in the 1920s and into the 1930s, tends to use these classical harmonies in isolation, for the chords move freely one to the other without their classical function.

Bawa's educational designs culminated in his masterly work for the new University of Ruhunu, on a coastal site near Matara, a project that occupied him for much of the 1980s.

As chief of police of St. Denis, a picturesque village in the valley of the Dordogne, Bruno Courrèges is unprepared for the sensational case that occupies him in THE DEVIL'S CAVE (Knopf, $24.95).

While other football fans spent the last weekend of October watching games, the 74-year-old retiree prepared still more formal inquiries into events that occupy him more than anyone would prefer — two high school football tragedies.

Henry V and Julius Caesar are among the new plays that christen the space, and 1599 may also be the year Shakespeare begins work on early drafts of Hamlet, a tragedy that occupies him in various forms until around 1604.

His success is to convince us of the authenticity of that meaning, and not just when he is engaged on a magnificently eventful round-the-world journey that occupies him between the ages of 26 and 30 and encompasses surfing locations both obvious and obscure, including the then-undiscovered Thai island of Ko Samui, more recently the playground of Premier League stars.

He discusses the questions that occupy him in a way that invites his readers to think about issues in their own life, rather than in Seneca's life.