How To Use Preoccupied In A Sentence
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Dylan seemed exhausted, self-preoccupied, and morbidly depressed.
Touched with Fire
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In Japan, he sees political parties solely occupied in securing power and preoccupied in increasing strength and influence.
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The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements.
California Cool
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Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
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Not surprisingly, the strikers were preoccupied with regaining their jobs and keeping their system of seniority.
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This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world.
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Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that...
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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In the second stage, the individual becomes preoccupied with this problem and withdraws from active social life.
Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
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But it also takes a huge toll on their businesses, which suffer when employees are preoccupied by something other than their work.
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Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks.
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Some were preoccupied with God, others were atheistic to the core.
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His mannerisms are more those of a preoccupied math professor.
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I was more preoccupied by the life-size models of the pelvis and newborn doll.
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For the first and last time in her life, Amelia was too preoccupied to interact with her peers.
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Hadley's impending nuptials preoccupied Aunt Grace with a feverish monomania.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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Liberals were seen as weak-kneed wimps, unwilling to use force internationally and preoccupied with social welfare internally; local patriotisms prevailed everywhere.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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But the reason they go back is that they've become preoccupied with their thirst.
Christianity Today
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The audience becomes preoccupied with this sort of schoolboy brawl.
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Kitty was totally preoccupied with the threatened invasion, and to tell her this would be asking for trouble.
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She preoccupied herself with shark feeding frenzies.
ADRIFT • by Andrew S. Fuller
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They are 'self-people': self-possessed, self-preoccupied, self-loving — and ultimately, self-destructive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring.
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Things happen: Doug, who has dropped out of college, where he was, somewhat surprisingly, studying forensic science and criminal justice - he seems far too laid back and self-preoccupied to be interested in exterior pursuits - gets a job in an ice factory.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reformation studies were at that time preoccupied with tracing the intellectual and political origins of the movement - the survival of Lollardy, the challenge to scholasticism, the emergence of the centralised Tudor state.
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Although he makes provision for his soul, it is only in general terms and he is not preoccupied with the matter.
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Composers and music theorists have long been preoccupied with the relationship between sound and space.
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Though he may still be a fundamentalist of art, he is no longer preoccupied by eschatology.
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I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood.
My Tropic Isle
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The ceratopsian name 'Diceratops' Lull, 1905 was preoccupied by a member of the Hymenoptera insects.
The Saga of Diceratops, Diceratus, and Nedoceratops
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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For two weeks the shuttle had been looping the globe to the obliviousness of the vast majority of the world's population, which was largely preoccupied with the fate of Iraq.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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And how can she believe men are imprisoned in this ornamentalism against which women have already revolted when women are as preoccupied by their looks as ever?
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This constant outer preoccupation and hypervigilance is codependency making in that we are overly preoccupied with the moods of another person and under aware of our own moods.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Codependency Pt 2: An Incomplete Sense of Self
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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Slater was too preoccupied to take notice of any of them, his expression grim and haunted as he rode the brake and swung the low-slung sportscar into its stall.
The Second Time
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As a society we are far too preoccupied with measuring things in terms of tangible commercial results.
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Hadley's impending nuptials preoccupied Aunt Grace with a feverish monomania.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied.
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Government business strains and other concerns preoccupied Canadians and the development of the Pacific Basin lessened somewhat the European connection, at least from a trade standpoint.
North to Canada: An American Investment Banker Looks At Canada Today
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Yet the kind of liberty which preoccupied western artists was mostly individual freedom.
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Like all her neighbours, Deeti was preoccupied with the lateness of her poppy crop: that day, she rose early and went through the motions of her daily routine, laying out a freshly washed dhoti and kameez for Hukam Singh, her husband, and preparing the rotis and achar he would eat at midday.
Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
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He was so preoccupied with the effect he wished to produce, that a practical joke, Blondet, had bet once or twice, and won the wager, that he could nonplus him at any moment by merely looking fixedly at his hair, or his boots, or the tails of his coats.
Modeste Mignon
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It was supported by property owners, and was in turn preoccupied, indeed almost obsessed, by the defence and enhancement of its own properties including tithes, parsonages, and pew rents.
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With both parents being busy and preoccupied, there were not many family dinners.
Times, Sunday Times
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This society did not have to contend with the problems of outright new nationhood that preoccupied so many other parts of the world.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain
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What's wrong with Cindy? She seems a little preoccupied.
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I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
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It will also appear preoccupied by something that voters are not interested in.
Times, Sunday Times
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got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children
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Prism, the monthly published by Evangelicals for Social Action, has called the series ‘the most pro-family, God-preoccupied, home-based program on television.’
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Arriving on a brutally cold morning in April, I found her preoccupied with getting her gallery installations ready for a crowd of collectors.
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While signaling to the reader the fact that "every body" encompasses various degrees of numerousness, while signaling, that is, the fact that there are crowds Emma will join and crowds she won't, that passage likewise indexes Austen's participation in a project of social theory that had preoccupied the moralists of the previous century.
Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union
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You seem a bit preoccupied today.
The Sun
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Home to her were the harsh, cruel streets in a city too preoccupied to care.
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Above her, the sky was studded with stars, but she was too preoccupied to notice.
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67More than fifty years after the first African nations achieved independence we should ask why historians 'eyes remain preoccupied with "progress," which has largely emphasized the history of societies through the analytical lenses of politics and economics.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
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I've been doing a lot of stuff at work which is about designing social networks and their topologies, and peterme seems similarly preoccupied.
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He was polite, but distant, as if his mind was preoccupied with more important matters.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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She wrote that friends who had been rebuffed no longer called; her brothers meanwhile were too young and too preoccupied with their own affairs.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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This may be a sign of American democracy's torpor; or of our preoccupied sleepwalk with cults of brand-name products.
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It was a diving beetle, with that amiably rotund shape that prejudices us in favour of most beetles, because they look so earnest and preoccupied.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a wonderful family man, and he was also a self-important, self-preoccupied boor.
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
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It's something that has preoccupied humans since the dawn of time, but are people more cynical today?
The Sun
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A lot of men are unhappy with - and increasingly preoccupied by - the way they look.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mortimer was one of the most powerful marcher barons of Henry III's reign and preoccupied with resisting Welsh advance.
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Finally, though, if the panorama is implicated in the panoptic fantasy of an all-seeing vision, then the logic of the Diorama (though similarly preoccupied by the enticements of illusion) must be expressed differently.
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
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However, I'm finding it difficult to sift through the criticism that West is "preoccupied" with "pansexualism".
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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Perhaps for this reason, or because they reached a public that, witnessing the final throes of "decolonization," was somewhat preoccupied with the subject, these books were read, or at least talked about, by far more people than is usual for such academic works.
A Bit of Bunting
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He has printed out his latest graph in black and white and is contentedly preoccupied with colouring in the pieces of pie by hand.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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It's something that has preoccupied humans since the dawn of time, but are people more cynical today?
The Sun
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I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
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The Jana'ata, preoccupied with larger affairs, pressed no charges and released Sandoz to the custody of the Consortium.
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When she was satisfied that he was preoccupied she pushed with all her strength, shoving Eric off her and onto the floor.
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His evidence is fully compatible with other data and a less preoccupied explanation.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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She rested comfortably in the lotus position (no trick, given her extraordinarily limber body) and seemed to be quite preoccupied.
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Despite the smooth coil of her coiffure, the elegant lines of her lavender dress, she seemed ill at ease, preoccupied.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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It is also preoccupied with the vast trading opportunities offered by China and Asia.
The Sun
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Understandably her mind was preoccupied with things other than sausage rolls, quiches and crisps.
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He made his move when local government in England was at its most complaisant – led by Tories who put party loyalty first and preoccupied by cuts in spending.
Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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Pop culture glamorizes their muscular bodies but, at the same time, is more preoccupied than ever with slimming women down to an impossible ideal.
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Her first two collections were very much preoccupied with relationships, most of which were unsatisfactory.
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Then, with the same rapid step and preoccupied face, he made the round of the whole garden, and showed his former ward all his greenhouses and hot-houses, his covered-in garden, and two apiaries which he called the marvel of our century.
The Black Monk
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In his later films Pasolini preoccupied himself with the poetic, allegoric, and mystic in search of a purity of experience that he believed civilisation and modernity had despoiled.
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Traditionally historians and critics of Caribbean art have been preoccupied with identifying and categorizing Caribbean artists according to received canonical ideas of art and art history.
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It is also preoccupied with the vast trading opportunities offered by China and Asia.
The Sun
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Subsequently, septenary figures preoccupied Pico della Mirandola (Heptaplus), Giulio Camillo, John Dee, and Joachim Frizius, who wrote an influential treatise on Rosicrucianism in 1626.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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She was preoccupied, and gazed out of the windshield lost in her own thoughts.
BETTER THAN THIS
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Why is the media so preoccupied with the love lives of politicians?
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The queen, preoccupied, sent him away, but was prevailed upon to reinvite the captain.
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She ` s so really self-preoccupied, she ` s not in a position really to emotionally parent, and maybe that ` s what everybody is picking up here.
CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2007
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But most of all, we are still nothing like as preoccupied with appearance as the French, and in this country, a good father would no more criticise how his daughter looked than give her a belting.
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She was too preoccupied with remaining insistently silent and had her mind set on the letter she was drafting to John.
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The magistrate was preoccupied with other matters and was not listening closely.
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Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.
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They are so preoccupied with puffing up their own image and self-esteem that everything else just has to go hang.
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The narcissist is described as turning inward for gratification rather than depending on others and as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power and prestige.
Sarah Palin Plays (Inside) Baseball, Bunts - Swampland - TIME.com
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With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.
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Sexology and psychology throughout the twentieth century has been preoccupied with heterosexuality's problem - women.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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For reasons it would be indecorous to disclose, I've been more than usually preoccupied with sex and relationships this month.
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Unless Noonan's been preoccupied promoting her book on the Space Station, and missed the lefts '"vulgarization" of Palin and her family, which is surely among the worst in political history, why isn't she whacking their knuckles instead of Palin's?
American Thinker
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It is preoccupied with hypothetical origins and conjectural future ends.
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The protection and embellishment of the warrior's head has preoccupied warriors themselves, as well as their armourers and hatters, since the earliest history of organized warfare.
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The postwar years reignited discussions about the relevance of abstraction versus representation, an issue that had preoccupied many artists before the war.
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It's about a nomadic storyteller in India named Bram who's preoccupied with Dracula.
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In the second stage, the individual becomes preoccupied with this problem and withdraws from active social life.
Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
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The conflict between the votaries of Hindutva votaries and the Left-secular intellectuals has preoccupied the media.
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Here Turner had moved away from recording topography and was preoccupied with achieving specific effects of light and tone.
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Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of caricature have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation.
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A divided Europe, which includes a timorous Germany and an Italy preoccupied with the prime minister's bunga bunga parties, will yield.
Washington's Dithering on Libya
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For about a week-and-a-half, I have had this kind of icky, fluish feeling accompanied by all over body aches, which makes it hard to get anything done, because one minute I'm all Well, I'll just start in on writing the greatest novel of our era and the next I'm all preoccupied with the fact that I EVEN ACHE BETWEEN MY TOES.
Chase Swine With Swine
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Gilbey’s goatswhey which is his prime consolation, albeit involving upon the same no uncertain amount of esophagous re — gurgitation, he being personally unpreoccupied to the extent of
Finnegans Wake
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But what he has left us with are precisely the various artful arrangements to be found there, and to become preoccupied with the ethics his work purportedly embodies is at best to get ahead of the critical task of assessing that work and at worst to engage in ungrounded speculation.
The Event of Truth
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The wretches who have been for three years pouring their leperous distilment into the ears of Great Britain had preoccupied the ground, and were determined to silence the minister, if they could.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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I have to admit, I was preoccupied with how I would feel in the ring mentally.
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Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.
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Sexology and psychology throughout the twentieth century has been preoccupied with heterosexuality's problem - women.
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He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong.
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It's about a nomadic storyteller in India named Bram who's preoccupied with Dracula.
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It is not a good thing, or necessary, to become preoccupied by our weight.
Beat Stress
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But, right now, I was probably just preoccupied with the colours for my kitchen (should I go for magnolia or rose white?).
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A culture that is preoccupied with the self and with self-gratification is a culture that is moving away from civilization and toward chaos.
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In other words, traditional governments get so preoccupied with rowing that they forget to steer.
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Maybe we are preoccupied with our problems.
Christianity Today
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Our ambassador to Afghanistan, William Crosbie, may indeed go down in the annals of diplomatic dis-entante as collateral damage for his on-the-nose criticisms of Karzai - his fall-on-sword resignation offer should be declined by Ottawa - but otherwise Canada has been only peripherally impacted by the cable chatter, although there might be cause for self-preoccupied grumping even in that.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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Where latitude does have an important influence on the resultant wine is in the annual ration of sunlight, vital for photosynthesis, but often overlooked by those preoccupied by temperature.
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Under Anne, High Churchmen became preoccupied with trying to eradicate the practice of occasional conformity.
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She was also preoccupied with looking after her ill mother.
Times, Sunday Times
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You may be a little puzzled that two of the country's biggest intelligences should be so preoccupied by such a trifling matter as the future of a second-rate footie outfit.
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He seemed preoccupied with himself and he presented his opinions forcefully.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom Banbury was preoccupied with the missing Shepherd child and did not want to devote time to the new murder.
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Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.
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The purpose of their strategy is to have Dems be so preoccupied with debunking obvious falsehood that they will have little or no time engaging in substantive debates about the real issues – and it's working.
Palin warns of 'disturbing' health care rationing
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Needing to do something, anything, he rapidly tapped the spoon against the saucer as though preoccupied with a mathematical calculation.
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But within her apparent babble she covers all the problems that have preoccupied philosophers since the Greeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the post-modern world, preoccupied with contesting every perceived centre of power, the severest casualty has been our ability to judge between right and wrong, beautiful and ugly.
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If you are preoccupied with a problem, going to sleep becomes difficult.
Know Your Own Mind
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But in reality, they're rather preoccupied at home, consumed with the scurviest concerns.
Melik Kaylan: The Al Gore Smear: Gossip as an Instrument of Power
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It is now preoccupied by a fight with the left for control of the party at its congress this month.
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The social tensions particular to zoo life can distract males from reproducing - a male guenon in a dysfunctional family group, for example, can become so preoccupied with aggressive behavior that he ignores the females.
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A little more leaning around the tree and I saw two white horses, grazing while their masters were still preoccupied.
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Unmeasured has nongranular california home loans of a chekhov printmaking that cloudlessness dreyfus are preoccupied for standby web megillah and strasbourg, but web chanting are not.
Rational Review
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Preoccupied with German culture, Eliot was eager to explore the delights of the Saxon capital, and wrote rapturously in her letters and diaries of the art treasures that she saw there.
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Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, the wiseguy dandy, a Catholic uneasily preoccupied by eternal damnation, but employed as a novice enforcer by his Uncle, a capo from the old country.
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Well yes, Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations, naturally, but she had been happy.
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They still hadn't managed to redo their rooms, partially because of the lack of free time, partially because they had been too preoccupied with the fights.
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I was preoccupied with this useless energy when a huge man approached with an intent look on his face.
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At dinner the night before our interview, the poet from east Belfast seems distant and preoccupied.
Times, Sunday Times
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His eyes were restless, his expression preoccupied, his manner haughty.
The Hallam Succession
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This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The elderly man explained apologetically that he had lost track of his wife and was preoccupied searching for her.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has printed out his latest graph in black and white and is contentedly preoccupied with colouring in the pieces of pie by hand.
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Thethi was married into a feudal family and her husband, Unni Namboodiri, who was preoccupied with poojas and religious rites, ignored her.
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This society did not have to contend with the problems of outright new nationhood that preoccupied so many other parts of the world.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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So preoccupied were the bears that they paid no attention to us for the whole duration of our 1,5 hour watch.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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Godric had been his personal attendant since his sixteenth year and the man had been just as preoccupied about the state of Briar's appearance then as he was now.
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With the party leadership preoccupied with the elections the decision on his successor is pending.
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Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off.
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Governments and parents have become increasingly preoccupied in recent decades with measurable academic attainment, forcing schools and teachers to follow suit.
MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
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However, the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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I was too preoccupied to hear the bell.
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Apparently the heiress needs a new bestie now Nicole is all preoccupied with the baby.
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The series expands on the collage theme that has preoccupied her for the past decade or so.
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Tolkien was more preoccupied with his invention of an artificial mythology than with character development.
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I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
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Despite being somewhat preoccupied with material and professional affairs you manage to attend to children, family and loved ones with devotion and care.
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Preoccupied with stories like these, I’ve become Vanity Fair’s in-house designee for cold-call wack jobs.
A Claim to Camelot
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It was his symbol of our increasingly individualistic, atomistic, self-preoccupied culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am so preoccupied with my obsessions that I am not capable of seeing one step back or one step ahead.
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The emperors, busy in Germany or preoccupied with the popes, made wide grants of regalian rights over local coinage, tolls, customs dues, police powers, and justice (diplomas of Henry I, Lothair II, and Conrad II); there were also considerable delegations of local episcopal powers.
2. The Development of Italian Towns
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Scott has always been preoccupied with diffusing the distinction between high art and popular culture.
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The Prime Minister is clearly alive to the danger of being seen as neglectful of his home front because he is too preoccupied with foreign affairs.
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Much of this debate so far has been preoccupied with the hardware of the military.
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Also, being self-preoccupied, we might be so desperate, that we will do anything that the teacher says to do.
Avoiding Mixing Ego with Dharma Practice
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the army preoccupied the hills
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Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self, the repressed human essence.
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It didn't help that Jeff was so preoccupied that he answered in monosyllables, but Denise didn't think of that.
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A lot of men are unhappy with - and increasingly preoccupied by - the way they look.
Times, Sunday Times
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What goes beyond the cataloguing of the hidden structures, the invisible powers, seductions, and numerous offenses we have been preoccupied with for so long?
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The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind.
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Certainly Dionne, preoccupied as he is with his game of gotcha, makes no effort to refute it.
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The protection and embellishment of the warrior's head has preoccupied warriors themselves, as well as their armourers and hatters, since the earliest history of organized warfare.
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a preoccupied frown
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While he was preoccupied, I took the rocks out of my pocket, one in each hand, and bashed them on each side of his head as hard as I could.
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He was unexcited by the subject of the novel, and was in any case preoccupied with his impending departure for America.
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Preoccupied with khadi, naturopathy, education as a tool for social change and the philosophy of sarvodaya way of life, he carefully nurtures the ashram with grand aspirations and concrete plans.
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He didn't seem to mind much and as he leaned in close to the girl I skittered out deciding he was further preoccupied.
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The most creative artists were by no means always preoccupied by social criticism.