Sentence examples for we preoccupy from inspiring English sources

It isn't why we preoccupy ourselves with sports, but performance-enhancing drugs have apparently become as endemic to the game as money, all related to the score.

However much we preoccupy ourselves with the pictorial features of Silas' birds, the death and decomposition that she analogizes, and which holds each of us enrapt, is ultimately significant of the death and decomposition of the human self.

To pose the question that psychiatrists ask their patients, why are we preoccupied all at once with the how instead of the why of things?

We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

But it's not the individual instances we should preoccupy ourselves with, it's the industry that empowers these people to speak for and to us in the first place.

When we worry, we become preoccupied with an aspect of our lives, desperately trying to anticipate what might go wrong and what might happen if it does.

Right now, we feel like we're doing the best we can; looking back, we were preoccupied with the wrong thing or unnecessarily postponed the most important part.

Giblin says that FOMO arises when we become preoccupied with the feeling that we are not good enough and that we may never be.

But even if it does not break up, I think we have to acknowledge that internal political tensions will increase and the more we become preoccupied with these, the less we are credible as an influence on global events.

We often forget where we put our house keys because we were preoccupied with something else (absent-mindedness).

In this sense, the problem is not that we are too materialistic but that we are not materialistic enough, because we are preoccupied with the symbolism of money.