Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.
Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.
We all need a government that solves our real problems and is not preoccupied with itself.
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
