There was Rosy, who had learned her lesson of selfishness from the world all too early, and who now, in her preoccupations for the future, had less thought of him than ever.
The bare facts of biography seem poor when compared with these preferences, these preoccupations and predilections of the very man himself.
One of Sir Charles's preoccupations at this moment was the choice of a Liberal candidate to stand for Chelsea with him, and the matter presented difficulties.
Exempt from vexatious or burdensome taxes, tolerably well off, owning at least his own office, he was above sordid preoccupations and common necessities.
In like manner, in the antique world, two preoccupations were of supreme importance.
He saw her constantly reappearing in a funny way among the sombre preoccupations with which war was overshadowing all lives.
Delacroix married, father of a family, with all the preoccupations of children to bring up, of money matters, of illnesses; do you believe his work would have been the same?
I am well aware that hard work and artistic preoccupations have a good deal to do with it.
The dinner was magnificent, but the table was deserted; out of twenty guests invited, only five presented themselves; the others were kept back either by material impediments or by the preoccupations of the day.
A short unpublished document which I composed at the time, and a speech which I delivered early in 1848, will bear witness to these preoccupations of my mind.
As the frowsy little waitress left them, they looked at the pallid, milky stuff, and then at each other, and their individual preoccupations thinned for a moment.
With such practical preoccupations no wonder she was unconscious of the change in Blair.
For a moment his face softened until his ownpreoccupations faded out of it.
As he wrote, twopreoccupations principally filled his mind.
So she set her husband to 'mind' the young ones, and, easily doffing the sordid preoccupations of every day, slipped back into the enchanted ring.
The attitude made one realize, however completely tenderer preoccupations held the foreground of one's consciousness, how often and successfully she must have sat to theatrical photographers.
The disadvantages of the habit of making life a consecutive series of absorbing preoccupations are numerous.
Meantime, I moved among my fellows as one having possession of a talisman which raised him far above the cares and preoccupations of the common herd.
But amidst his numerous preoccupations in England Sir Rutherford never loosened his grasp on the events which were transpiring in the distant field to which his official life had been devoted.
The dilatoriness of China in making a stand against Japanese pretensions in Korea may be partly explained by her serious preoccupations elsewhere.
When, amid all his brisk preoccupations with men and women, will he touch life?
There were, too, other distractions, nor were these invariably the bodiless preoccupations of the mind.
With his arrival, however, other preoccupations fell into their proper places.
In wholesome fear of mistake, one would hesitate to put church matters either before or after politics among the preoccupations of Elgin.
New preoccupations changed the direction of his thoughts.
It was only thus that he could rouse her from her preoccupations with gambling, which kept her constantly distracted, talking and smiling automatically, like a person walking in her sleep.
But other more important preoccupationstormented the Colonel.
What have I done to you," Francesco indignantly asks, "that you should seek to deprive me of my most glorious preoccupations and condemn to perpetual night the brightest portions of my soul?
I do not know, brother, what anxieties are weighing upon you or what your present preoccupations may be.
The inventor of the word "sensuous" gave to the English people an opportunity of reconsidering those headstrong moral preoccupations which had already ruined the meaning of "sensual" for the gentler uses of a poet.
Foreigners, it is said, do not laugh at the wit of these journals, and no wonder, for only a minute study of the customs and preoccupations of certain sections of English society could enable them to understand the point of view.
For the moment, courtesy and good-nature demanded that I should put my own preoccupations on one side, and give my best attention to Rupert and his literary ambitions, and I think I succeeded in gratifying him.
Notwithstanding these preoccupations of mind, I thoroughly enjoyed my evening, which Rupert and his mother were pleased and gratified to hear.
Beneath all these preoccupations lurked the dread of what he was thinking.
Mr. Carstyle was as inaccessible as the average American parent, and led a life so detached from the preoccupations of his womankind that Vibart had some difficulty in fixing his attention.
She said nothing of needing advice and did not ask me to walk home with her, concealing, as we talked, her transparent preoccupations under the guise of a sudden interest in all I had been doing since she had last seen me.
But when a man has passed the period allotted for the average of his race, ought not these preoccupations to be reckoned to him rather as appropriate and meritorious?
D 'Hubert in the midst of his worldly preoccupations perceived it at last.
These worldly preoccupations were no doubt misplaced in view of the solemnity of the moment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preoccupations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
