| 单词 | preoccupied |
| 例句 | He seems preoccupied with watching Pollux, to the point where it’s getting a little worrisome, when he finally puzzles it out and begins to speak with agitation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Since the night of the siege, Fiver had spent much time alone and even in the Honeycomb, or at morning and evening silflay, was often silent and preoccupied. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were talking in those preoccupied voices that grownups use when something has gone wrong. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; “A long time ago” came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “But my parents are preoccupied and that is why they do not wish anything sneaky to go on.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucker was now preoccupied with lining up a pepper shaker cavalry across from a hostile regiment of saltshaker footmen. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She’s preoccupied and I don’t have to tell her about Frightful yet. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys were preoccupied with avoiding punishment at home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Bailey wanders down curving paths, his mind preoccupied with bottles full of mysteries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But she was now preoccupied with her cabinet. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I could scarcely move through a room, I was so preoccupied with not walking or bending or crouching like them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most survivors are “preoccupied with shame, self-loathing, and a sense of failure.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Of late the badger had become preoccupied with an idea that was rapidly turning into an obsession. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Or take the challenge that preoccupied Galileo through a large part of his working life: that of establishing longitude at sea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One memory in particular has preoccupied me all morning - or rather, a fragment of a memory, a moment that has for some reason remained with me vividly through the years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Finally my father’s perpetually perplexed preoccupied expression makes sense. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Reggie was, as if co-opted by a text while driving, preoccupied by revelation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I couldn’t honestly say what happened in Biology; my mind was too preoccupied with thoughts of tomorrow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She was so preoccupied with that thought, she didn’t notice the ledge until it was too late. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The question of “likeness” had preoccupied scientists and philosophers for centuries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He spoke before his preoccupied brain could stop his mouth. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Today in his apathy John stared at them, not seeing; he began to dust them with the exaggerated care of the profoundly preoccupied. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Lawrence had invented a superb instrument for smashing atoms, but while he was preoccupied with making the tool better, the quintessential small-science lab had stolen the prize from under his nose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was preoccupied with examining her next move on the board. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not yet, anyway. He’s been a little preoccupied with the whole ‘genetic damage’ thing.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Isn’t it awful of me to be so preoccupied with myself? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Lyra’s Scholar, Dr. Malone, was red-eyed from lack of sleep, and her colleague, who’d just returned from Geneva, was impatient to hear more, and skeptical, and preoccupied. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the morning Bigwig had seemed unlike himself—silent and preoccupied, with little attention for what was going on around him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were silent again, each of them preoccupied and troubled. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They were legally condemned children hidden away in adult prisons, largely unknown and forgotten, preoccupied with surviving in dangerous, terrifying environments with little family support or outside help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nature is preoccupied with balance, so it did not surprise me that nearly right away I felt the urge to urinate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Out on the patio, the visiting relatives have left, and only the compound folks remain, talking in low, preoccupied voices. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When Arturo and I sat together at the kitchen table that night, I was quiet and preoccupied, staring into my cup of tea, the only sound the knocking of the radiator. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But the sun was setting, and her hands were tired, and she ate and slept, preoccupied, while the mulefa discussed her endlessly in their quiet, musical whispers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were too worried and preoccupied to take much pleasure at my presence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When her baby was born, a girl, the two midwives in attendance were so preoccupied with what was going on between her legs they never even noticed her smooth balloon of a stomach. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And I suppose I have to admit that I’m a lot like all those people who were so preoccupied with my appearance. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Most of all she couldn’t bear having her head so preoccupied and nothing useful to do with her hands. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m so preoccupied that I’m almost at the table before I look up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z This was in the castle courtyard, and when the Prince appeared, the Count was, as usual, with him, although, not as usual, the Count seemed preoccupied. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I had thought Maud seemed a little off, maybe preoccupied, but I didn’t say so. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z This thought preoccupied her all the way into her office. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Scientists studying living organisms were far more preoccupied with other matters: embryology, cell biology, the origin of species, and evolution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And his father...his father would always be preoccupied with conquest—and wouldn’t stop until every continent bore Adarlan’s flag. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure. Forget themselves.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t put down the phone just to get preoccupied by something else,” Soren Gordhamer told me for a story I did for the New York Times. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Will you please stop talking about imprisonment? You seem to be preoccupied with the thought. Actually, you seem to enjoy thinking about it. Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t preoccupied, as part of our nation seemed to be, with race and skin color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dad was so preoccupied with time that he did not even notice the sarcasm in my voice. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Private — with you?” said Harry, surprised out of his preoccupied silence.“Yes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When he did find some time to visit me, he was very preoccupied, and I could feel him rankling with anger and with inactivity, but he tried hard to hide it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The butterflies still danced, preoccupied in the center of die clearing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Nor did Oppenheimer share the hauteur that other theoretical physicists displayed toward Lawrence and his crew of preoccupied tinkers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Not to imply that I was overly preoccupied with any of this. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just work that preoccupied him; it was the thought of Emma:—“My own dear future wife.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All week, Henry had been mercifully preoccupied with drilling a well out in Smith County, which kept him away for long hours. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t even noticed it during the time I had been outside, having been completely preoccupied with the Gemini and the Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am at a loss what to think or say’’ He got over it fairly quickly, though, preoccupied with his adventures and his collections. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was upset that instead of getting the message that she was trying to convey, they were too preoccupied with what nationality she was. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z As Harry squelched along the deserted corridor he came across somebody who looked just as preoccupied as he was. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Rachael carried the paper bag into the bathroom, got two glasses, returned; she still seemed distracted and uncertain—and preoccupied. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z If she hadn't been preoccupied, she would have pulled the book out the bag, read the title, and then challenged me to explain why I had bought it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I had been preoccupied with getting us to the United States because I wanted it to make her whole again. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I have to be cautious as I move along the water though, because I find my thoughts preoccupied with unanswered questions, most of which concern Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were preoccupied, as they had been all morning, waiting for the principal to start talking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z But his companions were preoccupied with their argument. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was preoccupied with sex, but not of a type that needed encouragement. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I've been preoccupied with watching the boy from District 2 send a spear through a dummy's heart from fifteen yards. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She herself was preoccupied—by the births of their sons, by the family setbacks after Papa was jailed, by Papa’s sad demise and death, by their own numer-ous business failures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew that her mother was absentminded and preoccupied, but this was ridiculous. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The SS seemed more preoccupied, more worried, than usual. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But the train jolts into motion, and the man finishes his cigarette and gives her a preoccupied smile and promptly falls asleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Charles was so preoccupied with his thoughts that he forgot to show up for a dinner he had been invited to attend. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s really all I think of when Dad crosses my mind these days—the junky stuff he brings home for us and the work he’s always preoccupied with between flights. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t respond; I was too preoccupied with finding a safe route into the rally. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I should be upset he’s drinking again, but I’m preoccupied with another feeling. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I had naively supposed that I would have much in common with them, but I found them preoccupied with twisted sex problems. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ha! You could barely fight me with a goddess on your side. And, alas . . . that goddess is preoccupied at the moment. There will be no help for you now.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Even if he had been too preoccupied to hear the sounds of trucks or voices, Calamity would have, so quick to startle now that her kittens were close. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In Greece alone in the ancient world people were preoccupied with the visible; they were finding the satisfaction of their desires in what was actually in the world around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his mother, preoccupied with last-minute wedding details, had forgotten to call him first thing in the morning, as she normally did. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Many years of overwork and interrupted sleep had made him a little vague and preoccupied. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The first bat came in so silently that neither Gregor nor the preoccupied rats saw it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You guys are funny,” Olly says, almost smiling, but obviously preoccupied. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z These thoughts preoccupied her as she washed her hands and face and chose a clean dress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Most of the crowd was still preoccupied watching Elizabeth. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d become preoccupied with T-shirts, with decorating around our beds, with personalising our desks. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greek intellectual world, on the other hand, was almost frantically preoccupied with competing models of the ultimate configuration and substance of the cosmos. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The fact that I was doing serious X-ray work with TMV gave him assurance that I should not soon again become preoccupied with the DNA pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “You are preoccupied, my dear,” she said mournfully to Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But as they became preoccupied with exchanging autographs, a few of them let up on chasing and taunting us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, Tristran," said Victoria, who had been preoccupied for much of the walk. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z While my husband’s intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If you move the caterpillar again, she will repeat the program, and you can keep her totally preoccupied for as long as you have the patience and the heart for it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if he was too preoccupied with Ade Cokers case, but even after he got him out of jail a week later, he did not talk about my report card. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Of course the staff was preoccupied and distracted. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I only half-listened: my mind was preoccupied with comparing my situation with his. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There is an un-American secret at the heart of American culture: for a long time, it was preoccupied by class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Many of the founding members of the Royal Society—Digby and Oldenburg, for example, as well as Boyle—were preoccupied with alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "That's the one," said the little hairy man, his head questing from side to side as if he were preoccupied, or a little nervous. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When Bobby, as was typical, arrived past two o’clock, the restaurant would be sparsely filled: perhaps a Danish hippie, two American tourists, and three young local girls preoccupied with what they thought was important gossip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z During the time they were together he was very much preoccupied with other women and not home much. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They disappeared round a bend in the distance, and, preoccupied with tree problems, he did not give them a second thought. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The singing of the girls over their test-tubes, the preoccupied whistling of the Microscopists, suddenly ceased. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The case had so traumatized the black community that many had become preoccupied with each court development and ruling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m crouched on one knee, preparing to enter the Meadow, but I’m still so preoccupied with the day’s events that it takes a sudden screech of an owl to bring me to my senses. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was also a restless man preoccupied with making a living to support a growing family. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then I remember Cato waiting at the top and whip around, but he's doubled over with cramps and apparently more preoccupied with the mutts than us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I do not mean by this that we were preoccupied with our employers' private behaviour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Their argument had been carrying on for days, until the house was too preoccupied with the influx of new people into its rooms to pay attention. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His frustration over it went up and down like a barometer, the climate being the extent to which he was able to comprehend and resolve whatever mathematical problem preoccupied him at any given moment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Most bacteria are totally preoccupied with browsing, altering the configurations of organic molecules so that they become usable for the energy needs of other forms of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was preoccupied by this thought, though I was also comforted by the knowledge that other mothers and children had successfully done this before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Torrance pulled him aside at one point, but she could tell that he was preoccupied. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He just didn’t know why his parents were so preoccupied with him “coming out of his shell.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But I see I am becoming preoccupied with these memories and this is perhaps a little foolish. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But he had no interest in measurement or experiment; he thought Copernicus was excessively preoccupied with mathematical problems. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The others were nodding to back me up, though Ruth herself had on a vague expression, like she’d suddenly become preoccupied with something else entirely. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people in Coalwood were preoccupied with other matters more down to this earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked preoccupied, watching a group of kids go by. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z His stepfather stayed entirely out of his business, and his mother was preoccupied with too many other things to give much attention to his troubles. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The thought of what comes next has me preoccupied. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But he gets little response to-day; we are too preoccupied with another affair. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dustfinger pretended to be preoccupied with pulling a loose thread from his coat sleeve. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Thomas knew the rebuke should’ve stung, but his mind was too preoccupied. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “They’re too preoccupied to notice. Let’s keep it that way, okay?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I’ve been so preoccupied that I’ve just now noticed Miss Andersons companion, a sickly pale man who is draining his third glass of wine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was my deck of cards; but I was somewhat preoccupied listening to Claudia and interrupting her with questions. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A level below the surface, he, much like Adams, was preoccupied with the long shadow of George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In another context this insight would have been depressing, but I was too preoccupied with the weather to dwell on it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The dormitory was completely silent, and, had he been less preoccupied, Harry would have realized that the absence of Neville’s usual snores meant that he was not the only one lying awake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z All the time I was preparing for my final exams that year, I was preoccupied with what was to come, with being ready. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Otto had calmed somewhat and was preoccupied with trying to bring the smaller bonobo back to life, lying next to her and murping, blowing on her mouth, trying to get her to react. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The idea of discovery simply could not take hold in a culture so preoccupied with Biblical chronology and liturgical repetition on the one hand, and secular ideas of rebirth, recurrence and reinterpretation on the other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They stood this way for some time, none of them crying out to Mr. Smith, all of them preoccupied with one or the other of the minor events about them, until the hospital people came. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind is too preoccupied with the magnificence of this design. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pointedly, Reggie thought: What if I was so preoccupied that I actually didn't know what was going on? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Cortes was constantly preoccupied by the search for gold, but he also had to be restrained by the priests accompanying him from promulgating the Gospel in circumstances sure to anger native leaders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But her son was too preoccupied with his arrival in Baton Rouge to hear her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was preoccupied, and often stood in the quadrangle by men’s surgical, in long conferences with her counterpart, or she disappeared for two days at a time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They played cards, slept, combed their hair, huddled in groups, and preoccupied themselves in general feminine behavior. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But like most of the people who drove through Clarkston, Luma was too preoccupied with her own worries to give much thought to the unusual sights around her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It must have, because Mariam remembered that she had been restless and preoccupied that day, the way she was only on Thursdays, the day when Jalil visited her at the kolba. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I knew he was preoccupied; there were talks of layoffs at his work. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Milo observed with a preoccupied smile and started toward the door as though in a spell. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In an effort to recapture that high moment, he had tried to talk with Max, but Max was preoccupied, busy preparing his plea to the court to save his life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We had to go past the nurses’ desk to get to the door, but the girl in white seemed preoccupied, sitting with her head down, writing something. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While the molecular description of the gene clarified the mechanism of the transmission of heredity, it only deepened the puzzle that had preoccupied Thomas Morgan in the 1920s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But her good intentions clashed with her need to talk with her uncle about the things that preoccupied her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Practice doesn’t start for another hour and a half, something I knew Mama wouldn’t know because she and Daddy have been so preoccupied. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Girls think he’s cute, and even some of the guys seem preoccupied. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z For a few weeks, I preoccupied myself with gravity and momentum, atoms and cells, the Anglo-Afghan wars, instead of thinking about Hassan and what had happened to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was preoccupied, smoking a cigarette, but the thought that he might see me filled me with an inexplicable anxiety. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The party limped along slowly, painfully, suspiciously, preoccupied by the worries they all shared, but no one spoke aloud. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The policeman was grimly preoccupied with another concern. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, still glancing round the room with a preoccupied look, he added absent-mindedly: “It makes no odds about my quarrel, but they did ill to force it on you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He used this preoccupied tone when he was thinking of something more interesting than what you had said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I have a chance to say anything to Judith, she brushes past me, too—either preoccupied or deliberately ignoring me—and takes a seat on the sofa. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z That class had finished several minutes early—Miss Emily had rushed off with a preoccupied frown—and the word had started to go round as soon as the students had come out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps this latter finding should not have been so surprising: after all, Lawrence himself was still thoroughly preoccupied with his other work—namely, the construction of the 184-inch cyclotron on the hillside above the university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I reach for my pocket notebook to read the next thing on my to-do list and keep myself preoccupied—“#18: Record a video.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Ruby had been much preoccupied of late, and had not noticed the change in Sarai, let alone guessed its cause. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “After Dad passed away, I preoccupied myself at my foster group home by digging obsessively into your API. It helped me, you know...forget.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Actually, preoccupied though I was with Ruth’s possible, I did begin to enjoy the paintings and the sheer peacefulness of the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid presided over the Care of Magical Creatures exam the following morning with a very preoccupied air indeed; his heart didn’t seem to be in it at all. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The Teapot Dome scandal preoccupied the living, but the dead had their own concerns. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z To their south sprawled the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, where the empire’s rulers, as ruthless and preoccupied with national glory as so many Bismarcks, considered what to do with their soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His thoughts remain preoccupied with the image of the girl from the theater. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All afternoon she had been preoccupied with previewing Darlene’s dress rehearsal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What little part of my mind wasn’t leaden with fatigue was preoccupied with the screaming pain across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z While the plainclothesmen had been coming in at night, she had been too worried and preoccupied to attend to this project for George. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lately I've been preoccupied with a tone cult in my neighborhood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Isa called down to her preoccupied parents as her siblings made a hasty exit up the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Dobzhansky’s final flourish was to solve the “mystery of mysteries” that had preoccupied Darwin: the origin of species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Daddy’s preoccupied with Uncle Jack stuff, so he doesn’t question why I have him drop me off thirty minutes early. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z She was so preoccupied with teaching me how to be a man that she never taught me how to be a boy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At the moment his expression was distant and preoccupied. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He is preoccupied, like a man humming to himself in the shower without knowing he’s humming; like a man who has other things on his mind. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was as withdrawn as a person can be and still live in the same household: morose, preoccupied with matters that were none of our business. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A preoccupied child who took his bowl with one hand got a sideways glare. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Even better, Mom’s been so preoccupied with reviewing Lily’s college applications that I think she’s forgotten to be so worried about me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Bear was in a solemn mood and spoke very little, seemingly preoccupied with his own thoughts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He’s the same guy I remember from my hospital nightmare: stocky, bald, partially preoccupied. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He was pale, and his eyes were tired and preoccupied, but there was nothing in his expression that gave me any indication what he might be thinking. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When Sheriff Freas was informed about Anna’s murder, he was already preoccupied with Whitehorn’s slaying, and he initially sent one of his deputies to collect evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At unguarded moments his hard and sullen face slipped into a somber, preoccupied look of defeat and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But he confessed to her that he had a great deal of work to do that preoccupied his mind. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, a study by the Vera Institute found that during the first month after release from prison, people consistently were more preoccupied with finding work than anything else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I hope the exhibit will remind us to train ourselves to keep our minds and our eyes open, so that we are not preoccupied with only our ‘here’ but also with ‘elsewhere.’ New Museum Puts Spotlight on Art From the Arab World 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z But the Magnes, by being preoccupied with endangered Jewish cultures and with the objects that defined them, could never have participated fully in this vision. Exhibition Review: Magnes Judaica Museum Joins Berkeley Library - Review 2012-01-22T23:04:04Z Mr. Podell is particularly preoccupied with winning over Mr. Richards, who has a history of moving shows to Broadway from the American Repertory Theater, including “The Glass Menagerie,” which arrives in September. Lyndon Johnson is the Subject of Dueling Works 2013-06-28T21:49:29Z The novelist spoke about her narrator as a man rationally preoccupied with the ordering of events: as an intellectual man of his age, he finds causation through sequence. Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z From what I experienced at Basel, artists are preoccupied with the effects of nonstop computer use. Art Basel 2012 recap: Millennial art, music everywhere 2012-12-10T22:04:23Z Once I've heard it, I'm slightly preoccupied with the thought of hearing it again. Chloe Sevigny 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z She was a dreamy, preoccupied woman, early fifties, willowy, fine-featured, draped over a chair with graceful professionalism that was part coy and part disdainful. My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z As was clear from his first album, “Doris,” and even more so this follow-up, he’s not preoccupied with delivering highly polished finished product, but instead is devoted to creating, and delivering, in real time. Review: Earl Sweatshirt’s Latest Album Goes to Dark Places 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Soon it becomes apparent the voice belongs to a writer, one preoccupied with loss: what it looks like, the grief it creates and the meaning — however tenuous — we give it. Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z But somehow, in a Filipino restaurant named for a meat that it cooks exceptionally well, it’s the vegan jackfruit dish that preoccupied me. The 10 Best Los Angeles Dishes of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Fittingly for New People, much of his work is preoccupied with the globalization of cultures and the creative mash-up of new media. Heads Up: New San Francisco Complex Is a Mash-Up of Japanese Culture 2010-06-24T20:39:00Z He's doing the same "preoccupied posho" thing he did, regrettably, as Winston Churchill in The King's Speech and, regrettablier, as Winston Churchill in the Olympic closing ceremony. Blandings is just the ticket, by jove 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z A psychopathic jock with anger and daddy issues; a girl tempted to sell herself online; teenagers debasing themselves to impress others, preoccupied with mutual ruin. Review | ‘Euphoria’ is a depressing, dirty show about teenagers. Of course you’ll watch. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z These gigs shouldn't work – at first, it can be hard not to be preoccupied by what is absent rather than by what is present – but they pack a powerful emotional punch. The show must go on: when bands replace their dead stars 2011-01-27T22:59:01Z As though simultaneously infected by a bug, the perennially preoccupied fest-goers stopped, swiveled to face the stage and started moving. Coachella 2015: Alabama Shakes, Tame Impala among top Friday moments 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z In this case, Lynskey's Kelly is a minor novelist now preoccupied with the demands of raising Jude. 'Happy Christmas' piles insecurities, angsty comedy under tree 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I was, however, more preoccupied with what awaited me at that evening’s meal. Overnighter: North of Berlin, a Quiet Land of Lakes 2013-05-23T22:59:37Z Miles is equally preoccupied with girls and with collecting the dying words of famous people. Margaret Talbot: How the Y.A. Novelist John Green Built an Ardent Army of Fans 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z His album is preoccupied with old beefs and old feelings. Critic’s Notebook: Chief Keef’s New Album is ‘Finally Rich’ 2012-12-19T23:07:51Z The combination of fashion changing fast during that time and me being preoccupied with business troubles, I wasn't able to be inspired. On the Runway Blog: The Second Life of Gemma Kahng 2012-07-12T16:51:02Z I think a little self-reflection from Virginia is also in order, on just how preoccupied they may be with something that's several steps removed. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Talk about future baby is no bundle of joy for her significant other 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z For the past few years, like a lot of other people, I’ve been preoccupied — sometimes to the point of obsession, lost sleep, free-floating dread and active despair — by the economic state of the world. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z A century earlier, Abraham Lincoln, too, was preoccupied with a key part of the immigrant electorate of his day. ‘One Nation with News for All’: Newseum looks at Ethnic media in America And I was somewhat preoccupied, as you can probably imagine. Q. and A.: Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain, National Book Award Nominees 2012-11-13T17:21:36Z The whole book is, in a way, preoccupied with fathers, and Lobrano and his relationship to Salinger is central to that theme. 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z As preoccupied as they seem to be, I wouldn’t blame the Conners if they never breathed another word about politics. Review | Roseanne’s character overdosed on opioids and left ‘The Conners’ behind. It’s better this way. 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Jia - whose film "24 City" played at Cannes in 2008 - said he became preoccupied by the increasingly frequent stories of violence he saw in the media, and wanted to dramatize the stories for Chinese moviegoers. Iran's Farhadi and China's Jia make Cannes splash 2013-05-17T19:20:16Z Del Rey’s California—which is the California of our collective unconsciousness, a dream song—is preoccupied with glamour and love and fame and anguish and loneliness and hunger. Lana Del Rey Is Exhausted 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z But Lloyd, who played Allen’s movie son, Charlie, was preoccupied with the toys filling the massive Santa’s workshop set in Toronto and the disappointing reality that brown paint was used for onscreen hot cocoa. As Kids, They Starred in Holiday Hits. They Moved On. Can We? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It is also preoccupied with the ethics of seeing: a viewfinder “slices the horizon,” a camera “neuters the present” and to bestow one’s gaze is to spend “a soft currency.” Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Had I known, I would’ve been like every other pregnant person out there: overly preoccupied, paranoid, and occasionally, insufferable. My accidental, alcohol-drinking pregnancy adventure 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Rodrigues’s father was an antifascist activist, and “Catarina” is preoccupied with weighty political questions: When fascist forces are on the rise in a democracy, what are the best means of countering them? Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Carbone also quotes writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson, who were all deeply preoccupied with the tensions between repression and liberation, corruption and idealism. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z July is preoccupied with intimacy — she habitually uses the words “you” and “we” in her titles — and this demands, and inspires, an intense engagement from her followers. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z With their inspiration rooted firmly in the past, both Mr. and Ms. Struthers admit to feeling a disconnect with today’s watch industry, a world they view as clinical and preoccupied with technological advances. Tradition and Edgy Design in a Young Watch Company 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Having just been made treasurer, he was preoccupied with his work, and terrified to boot, so he stayed away, never laying hands on the baby until more than a week after his birth. "Boardwalk Empire" finale recap 2010-12-06T13:30:00Z She started at the top of the stairs and initially seemed preoccupied with making it down those stairs in high heels in one piece. "American Idol" recap: Final performances 2010-05-26T13:27:00Z British law has a loophole exempting maritime employees, but few of the people I talk to seem overly preoccupied by tax. Sun, sea and silver service: what’s it like crewing on a superyacht? 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z “I can’t be mad or preoccupied. I’m going to bash down doors and beg people to meet with me.” There's No Such Thing as 'Too Much Diversity' on TV 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Jump to ancient Egypt and artists are even more preoccupied with invisible worlds. Sight unseen: the history of invisible art 2012-06-14T08:49:37Z Bernard brought her onto his team in 2013, and she often functioned as his liaison or would oversee one event when he was preoccupied with a conflicting one. How Deesha Dyer, a hip-hop lover from Philly, became social secretary 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z I'm too selfish, too preoccupied by my work. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z While Jackie is preoccupied with staying sober and keeping her job, she is inexorably drawn into the murder investigation and the larger plot. Review | New TV is starting to dwindle, so watch these 3 recent shows that are among summer’s best 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z And, as in most horror films preoccupied with sex, a woman is the infected protagonist. As if Becoming a Vampire Isn’t Bad Enough 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Full of detours and backward glances, the narrative is centrally preoccupied with time itself. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It will be juxtaposing them with late quartets by other composers said to be preoccupied with death; this first installment features Mendelssohn’s Opus 80, his last major work. Opera and Classical Music Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:42:51Z For two years, Britain has been preoccupied with its imminent departure from the European Union, set for March 2019. Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z We knew that the couple there with the teenage daughter in rehab were both on their third marriage and probably so preoccupied with their own careers that the poor girl never had a chance. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z He is preoccupied not only with the crime story around which “The Troubled Man” revolves but also with his diminished prospects and deteriorating state of mind. Books of The Times: Detective Meets His End, Sort Of 2011-03-27T22:37:55Z While most of the show’s artists remain preoccupied by surface aesthetics, as Mr. Ovilsen, this particular object suggests that for imaginative painters, abstraction may still be a portal to uncharted possibilities. Art in Review: ‘Xstraction’ 2013-06-06T18:13:39Z He was too busy and preoccupied with money problems to bother making me a Valentine’s Day card, let alone planning a Valentine’s night out. A letter to… a universe that keeps sending me the wrong man 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Bilger is understandably preoccupied with titrating Gönner’s cloudy complicity in a regime of pure evil, a task that — to someone outside the family circle — may not seem particularly urgent or even possible to finish. A Grandson Investigates the ‘Reasonable’ Nazi in the Family 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Cathy's preoccupied parents pack her into the family station wagon every week like luggage, and drive from Paris to a getaway home in the country. 'On the Sly': Child needs a little more quiet time in compelling tale 2012-08-10T00:01:04Z Her domestic responsibilities often curtailed her work on the dollhouse — itself an outlet for her thwarted ambition as a set designer — which preoccupied her from around 1916 to the mid-1930s. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z “He was very preoccupied with his place in history, and how posterity would see him, and how he would be remembered, so he’d be very happy.” ‘Hamilton’ Is a Must-See for Treasury Chiefs, Too 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Still preoccupied with mass unemployment, he took up the cause of Forest of Dean miners while, at the same time, enjoying the hospitality of the Earl of Berkeley. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z If she weren’t preoccupied or struggling, then I’d still advise you to eat it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If I can get a word in edgewise, what should it be? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Yoshiko is a little preoccupied with what she sees as the approaching end of her life. Review: Intimate Struggles Come to Life in ‘After the Storm’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It was as if, after a night preoccupied with avoiding polish, he had spotted one rogue bit, and came out to scrape it away. Review: Kendrick Lamar, Rap’s Skeptical Superstar, Eschews Arena Spectacle 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z She’d spent a decade adrift after the sudden death of her parents before it struck her that she’d been preoccupied with distance and endurance and running away, so perhaps the logical answer was actual running. Runner’s high: the well-trodden road of swapping drugs and alcohol for exercise 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z And I’m thinking of the images of vaudevillian skeletons, and a weeping soldier, and spiral nebulae that have preoccupied the artist of late. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z However, her move was not expected by many in the fashion industry, which was largely preoccupied by New York Fashion Week and its shows taking place through Wednesday. Sarah Burton Exits Alexander McQueen 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z “Now that we have access to more archival material, we are all preoccupied with how we can reanimate it and create living histories,” Mr. Comer said. A Guide to the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial 2014-02-27T23:29:47Z “There’s a basic rule of thumb,” she said, “that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.” Tracing the roots of misogyny to ancient Greece and Rome with Mary Beard 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Most shows are reserved for young artists, experimental works shunned by mainstream galleries, or events to engage a community usually more preoccupied with unemployment and tensions between locals and immigrants. Scene/Seen: In Israel, Galleries With a Kibbutz Soul 2011-02-11T12:30:05Z And both are preoccupied with time and its constructions. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z Patterson also insists that Wharton wasn’t “preoccupied with her own looks” and that her “appearance wasn’t problematic” in her own milieu. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Jazz is constantly in flux — preoccupied with its history while also restlessly seeking new turf. Where Is Jazz Most at Home? 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z He can become so preoccupied with acting that almost everything else falls by the wayside. Al Pacino was nearly fired from ‘The Godfather.’ The rest is history. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Anniversary celebrations abound this year, in a dance season that seems conspicuously preoccupied with the past. Dance Performances, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z But little guidance from the staff — which is preoccupied with keeping piles piled and racks filled — on where to find the best deals. | Nordstrom Rack: Thrift Shopping at Nordstrom Rack in Manhattan 2010-06-16T18:27:00Z “Because people were preoccupied with the virus, culture and heritage got forgotten — and dangerously,” she said. Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Instead, he is preoccupied by the tragic moral ambivalence of his tale. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z But while many rock micromovements of the day were ingested by the mainstream, the Rapture stayed small, a champion of a world preoccupied with itself and the preoccupation of few others. Music Review: The Rapture at Webster Hall - Review 2011-09-25T21:54:09Z She’s less preoccupied by scenes of abuse than the psychological toll of its threat. A Daughter’s Search for a Father Wanted for Murder 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But he didn’t seem worried, or preoccupied with the task of representing an entire community. ‘Gentefied’ Asks, Can a Show About Gentrification Be Funny? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z That is, until the subject cropped up again and again, and I found myself preoccupied with an odd contradiction: as women act out ecstasy, they devalue their actual sensations. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Thoreau was preoccupied with natural rhythms: day and night, summer and winter, seed and harvest. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z On my first go I was too preoccupied with the ballet’s divergences from MacDonald’s book. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z Walker is clearly as preoccupied by the natural forces and rhythms of new life as she is by the end of life. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z This Eminem, the one preoccupied with his own pain, is a dazzling storyteller with ample territory to mine. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “I can keep myself preoccupied for hours with strangers,” he says. A hipster cultural salon for the short-attention-span generation 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Far from his relatives, he became even more preoccupied in his work with family dynamics and bonds. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In particular, it seems preoccupied with demonstratively taking steps outside the Cunningham aesthetic. Dance Review: Cunningham Work at Summer Stages Dance in Boston 2012-07-27T21:13:23Z Disheveled and preoccupied, he oddly places his wristwatch, his early-generation flip cellphone and car keys in a mailbox outside the home. 'Better Call Saul' creators breaking a sweat about their 'Bad' fans 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Suddenly the “Orszag love-child story” became a full-term tabloid distraction in a White House otherwise preoccupied by matters like terrorist plots, health care costs and unemployment reports. 2010-01-09T03:27:00Z As much as my school day was preoccupied with watching and listening, I felt both visible and invisible. Anna Deavere Smith: The First Time a White Person Wrote ‘Love’ to Me 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z But Ms. Maracci rejected the ballet establishment as commercial, and regarded its dancers as too preoccupied with ballet to broaden their horizons. Celebrating Carmelita Maracci, Who ‘Took the Girdle Off Ballet’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z In the Teller pictures of Hotel Il Pellicano, people from a new generation of hotel guests seem far less preoccupied than their predecessors were with appearing soigné and chic. Fashion Review: The Theater of an Italian Summer 2011-06-22T20:21:31Z No one in my family had ever seen the video, but my Jewish roots had preoccupied me for years. My search for the Nazi who saved my mother’s life 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Joseph Cornell, who also was preoccupied with pretty girls, is a kindred spirit too. Art Review: Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum 2010-05-13T21:51:00Z Both women come off as preoccupied with other matters, but from the affection that Ms. Coppola shows them, it’s apparent that they’re guilty only of being distracted. Movie Review: ‘Palo Alto,’ About Adolescents Stumbling Toward Adulthood 2014-05-08T21:44:34Z Our current consumer society depends upon individuals who are flexible, and preoccupied with reinvention. It’s time to stop looking for yourself 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Others were preoccupied by what went missing on “True Detective.” The TV Watch: ‘True Detective’ Finds Philosophical Answers by Season’s End 2014-03-10T04:11:00Z “The storytelling is so preoccupied with lurid crime details, it rarely pulls back to study larger dynamics.” In ‘Crime Scene,’ Joe Berlinger Investigates True-Crime Obsession 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Most of the inhabitants of this world, save the evil ones, are preoccupied with the environment. "The Rings of Power" are here to fight climate change 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z One worry is just that Socrates is preoccupied with truth, and fiction doesn’t even aim at truth directly. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Listen, we don’t go into this business preoccupied by awards. ?The Help,? Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards 2012-01-30T09:58:10Z "They have no respect for the kids out here.""Drivers are preoccupied," Sosa said. Witness: Hit-and-run driver left victims 'like road kill' 2011-09-18T02:02:00Z Although much of the piece is preoccupied with death, what emerges overall is a raucous call to engage with life. Chat rooms, home movies, life, death: A tangled, touching video at Susanne Vielmetter 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Dr. Price was an early-20th-century dentist who became preoccupied by the effects of traditional diets and postindustrial diets on dental health, and later on health in general. Bone Broth Evolves From Prehistoric Food to Paleo Drink 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z And the film’s young soldiers, preoccupied with their own survival, are seemingly unaware they have invaded another country, just as Moscow has falsely claimed that territories within Ukraine now legally belong to Russia. In a German ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ History Has a Starring Role 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Not without reason, Americans are preoccupied with challenges here at home: the coronavirus pandemic, an economy in shambles and turmoil stemming from a reawakening to the persistence of endemic racism. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Instead, “Under the Dome” is a rapidly expanding X-file, preoccupied with supernatural cause and effect. ‘Under the Dome’: A ludicrous tale enters its second season Spike Lee has heard all his film-making life that he is preoccupied with race. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z More preoccupied with time than place, this deceptively simple documentary by Jean-François Caissy regards the turbulence of adolescence as a negotiation between risk and restraint. Review: ‘Guidelines’ Is Jean-François Caissy’s Look at High School 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s unclear what happened to the DeSantis of a decade ago, a boilerplate libertarian and founding member of the House Freedom Caucus who was mainly preoccupied with fiscal austerity and privatizing Medicare and Social Security. Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But it turns out that some of the most influential E.A. literature happens to be preoccupied with killer robots too. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Even as the lights dim, she is preoccupied with “love and so many questions,” and it becomes impossible to tell where loving leaves off and knowing begins. ‘Emilie’ Review: Defending, and Defining, a Life 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z More tellingly, behind him, ignored by a star preoccupied with having his photograph taken and kept at a safe distance by steel security gates, a pack of fans struggles to make contact. Is Justin Bieber losing it? 2013-03-05T14:22:12Z According to Brad Dukes’ Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, for most of the second season, David Lynch and Mark Frost, the show’s creators, were preoccupied with other projects. Twin Peaks' final scene: 25 years on, it's as disturbing as ever 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z I'm somebody who is very preoccupied with form. Writer Gary Indiana on why he hates the '80s, Susan Sontag and his new memoir 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In a genre so often preoccupied with the recitation of horrors, “Three Minutes in Poland” is the rare work that seems more about people than about ghosts. Family film restores a lost Jewish town 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “I live a normal life without being too preoccupied about my health. I find that what I do as a job actually is enough for me.” With Rolling Stones’ return, Keith Richards looks for peace and quiet — onstage 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z They’re both preoccupied with female beauty, whether as a symbol or as a concrete reality. A Dollhouse You Could Call Home 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Parsons himself was particularly preoccupied with making manifest “Babalon”, the female messiah who he believed would come to Earth and ride on the back of the “Big Beast”, Crowley. Science and sex cults: rocketeer Jack Parsons hits the small screen 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Taking a leave from the CIA — which is preoccupied with the Soviets and interested in Nazis only insofar as it might recruit them in the anti-communist cause — Wiley follows Schramm to Buenos Aires. Review | In ‘The Accomplice,’ a CIA analyst turns the hunt for a Nazi into a personal quest 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Early in his career, Rorty had been preoccupied by the major questions of modern philosophy as they first arose in the seventeenth century, alongside the rise of experimental science. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z I think I was preoccupied with thoughts about how free am I as a woman. "Patriarchy knows no religion.": director Alankrita Shrivastava discusses “Lipstick Under My Bu... 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In both, Orpheus remains a genius musician who, though in love with Eurydice, is preoccupied with his art above all. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Sun, 36, is preoccupied with the idea of inevitable change. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I am also preoccupied with the surrounding landscape that morning, standing within the Stone Circle. Stonehenge at Dawn, Inside the Circle 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z When he's not contemplating the "unobservable scaffolding for planets and stars", frontman Joseph D'Agostino is preoccupied by "memory's strange abbreviation", haunting his characters with pictures and feelings they might rather forget. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lenses Alien ? review 2011-08-18T20:59:01Z By contrast, Mr. Jean-Raymond is preoccupied with essence, with an ability to make it personal. Pyer Moss and the Power of Black Truth 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It feels germane to “The Romanoffs,” because many of these characters are preoccupied with how they come across to people who barely know them. Matthew Weiner on Life After ‘Mad Men,’ Sexual Harassment and His New Amazon Show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But for the moment, she is preoccupied with the first weeks of motherhood. | Marine Vacth, the Frequently Unclothed Star of François Ozon’s ‘Young and Beautiful’ 2014-04-22T16:39:04Z With this album, Elliott was thinking beyond impulses like realism, which defined the rap of the eighties and the gangsta rap of the early nineties, and materialism, which preoccupied the new black conglomerate class. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Malcolm, the author and longtime staff writer for The New Yorker who died on Wednesday at 86, was preoccupied with doubleness, with divided selves that tried to keep one half hidden. Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Looking back at the earlier columns I see that when I wasn't preoccupied with looks, I was quite bafflingly angry. Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn 2010-10-15T13:54:00Z The composer was preoccupied with understanding spirituality and was keen to write Gnosis - which takes its title from the Greek word for knowledge. Proms unveils new Tavener works 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Nearby is Bernini’s marble bust of the same pope — looking considerably less ferocious and more preoccupied than scary. 3 Quiet Museums in Rome 2013-09-06T17:28:54Z The drama of Jewish male selfhood that preoccupied so many in the middle generations — the whole Philip Roth-Woody Allen megillah — is all but erased. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z "We're like children," she muses, "who cling to the skirts of a beautiful, preoccupied mother." 'The Betrayal': Bearing bad news ? a Leningrad doctor's dilemma 2011-08-31T21:28:03Z The novel recapitulates many themes that have preoccupied Mr. Boyle in the past — the hazards of ideological certainty and obsession; and the imperatives and responsibilities of freedom — even as it showcases his virtuosic storytelling talents. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Occasionally, if I knew my mother was definitely preoccupied, I’d drain the whole thing and start over. I was a chronic masturbator 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z “Portraying Camus as someone constantly preoccupied by heavy themes does his memory a great disservice,” Mr. Zaretsky said. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Here is the plot of “Either/Or”: Selin, now a sophomore, is preoccupied by Soren Kierkegaard’s question of how to lead an aesthetic life, as opposed to an ethical one. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Gates’s logic is diabolically sound: the Americans will have no trouble sweeping in and taking the money since Saddam Hussein’s army is currently preoccupied with quashing the resistance. Three Kings at 20: the war movie where anything was possible 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Leithauser has been preoccupied with the ageing process since he was a teenager. The Walkmen: 'We're not difficult, honest' 2011-01-13T22:45:01Z On April 23 and May 4, the quartet presents concerts at Alice Tully Hall dedicated to works preoccupied with death, including the last three Shostakovich quartets and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z Shakespeare never invented a plot line and worked from what preoccupied him – that is why he goes on being able to become so many things on stage. Shakespeare's canon to be reworked by authors including Jeanette Winterson and Anne Tyler 2013-06-26T23:01:02Z He now enters series three convincingly giving life to Luther's mixture of the insightful, preoccupied, and downright violent. TV highlights 02/07/2013 2013-07-02T06:00:21Z In a scene at an opera, Jones shows that the young women are too preoccupied with gossip to pay attention to the soul-stirring Rossini onstage. ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’ Review: A Finalist for His Affection 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But Russell was ahead of his time: genre-agnostic in a way that we are perhaps only now getting accustomed to, and preoccupied with process. Inside the Trove of the Genre-Buster Arthur Russell 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The ability to work outside that desire has, said Decker, preoccupied since the film – what would a world fully unbound from male validation look like? 'She puts you into a dream': inside a thrilling film about Shirley Jackson 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z But most important, he was singularly preoccupied by thinking he had failed himself. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z James has become preoccupied with these issues lately, particularly since she has fallen unexpectedly into wealth, and seen firsthand how society is weighted in favor of the rich. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z I, at any rate, was too preoccupied with trying to map the strange, rugged topography of their faces. Anne Bilson 2010-08-26T21:00:00Z Neither is preoccupied with experience, maintaining the status quo or kowtowing to critics. Perspective | What do President Trump and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have in common? Social media. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Antisemitism is rising in Germany, but Halder seems more preoccupied with domestic issues. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But as he became increasingly preoccupied with scientific questions, he got lost in the process of looking into the world. Review | Not every Leonardo is in the huge Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. What’s at the Louvre, though, is brilliant. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s program was more typical of opening gala concerts, probably because the Philharmonic was preoccupied with several preseason events this month. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z He’s preoccupied by his own and his music’s “authenticity,” even though he understands that the act is ever the act. Richard Ford Reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Using Mapleton as a microcosm of society, “The Leftovers” is especially preoccupied with how everyday life changed. ‘The Leftovers’: A biblical event leaves a sorrowful mystery But ever since the election, he’s been preoccupied with the developments of repeal and replace. Sick in Trump’s era: A young man with Parkinson’s frets over the affordability of GOP’s health plan 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Mostly the competition is preoccupied with love and seduction and good times that help bury older, more scarring memories. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z “The more you oppress, the more you’re preoccupied by those you oppress,” Beard said. Tracing the roots of misogyny to ancient Greece and Rome with Mary Beard 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Ellis isn’t preoccupied by these questions, but for what it’s worth, he does say that he and his friends never had the slightest intention of going to Syria. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But even though they stayed, Ms. Huth said she was preoccupied, only going through the motions and thinking about what had happened in the bedroom. What did Judy Huth say happened at the Playboy Mansion? 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Some of you catch my eye and smile, some stop for a chat, others walk on, preoccupied with their own busy worlds. What I’m really thinking: the mother with cancer 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z She seems preoccupied with getting up and changing the music every few minutes, but maybe she’s just going into the next room and screaming into a quilt before calmly stepping back out. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z I can take video of the flashing phantasmagoria displayed in the windows, glowing like screens themselves, and send it to a filmmaker friend — who will be too preoccupied with other moving images to watch it. On a New York Street, Windows Become Theaters for Ken Jacobs’s Films 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z She said many islanders have been preoccupied with Antigua Sailing Week, a popular regatta that's the biggest in the Caribbean. Royal wedding fever hits some in UK Caribbean 2011-04-27T08:16:04Z A mature and sensitive girl can feel left behind as her friends possibly become more silly or boy-obsessed or preoccupied with looks. Perspective | A daughter’s failing friendships: How to help without helping too much? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z So, too, does van der Aa’s spare yet richly complicated work, which is preoccupied less with futuristic speculation than timeless matters of the heart and mind, whether corporeal or in the cloud. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Much of “Chernobyl” is preoccupied with the quiet traces of heroism and dignity that faced down the corruption and dishonesty that defined Soviet life. Review | A grim ‘Chernobyl’ shows what happens when lying is standard and authority is abused 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z With his frequent allusions to clocks and hour glasses filled with gunpowder, Wayne is preoccupied with mortality and how a mega-star makes the most of the time he has left. Album review: Lil Wayne, 'Tha Carter IV' 2011-08-29T20:26:00Z The characters, Parisians who work in publishing, media and politics, are preoccupied with the impact of digital technology on their lives and livelihoods. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z They don’t notice because they are preoccupied with their own problems. Greek tragedy: Austerity and addiction 2012-06-26T14:36:00Z I don’t like the idea of Mr. McGregor’s choreography in anybody’s lifeblood because it’s so expressively empty, so preoccupied with flashy surface effects. Dance: Premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z A Midwesterner who valued “the culture of forthrightness he’d grown up with” but who became preoccupied with recursive literary narratives and the convoluted theories of Jacques Derrida. Books of The Times: David Foster Wallace Biography by D. T. Max 2012-08-22T14:21:10Z Anxiously attached people tend to be overly preoccupied with their partners and whether they love them back, while avoidants equate intimacy with a loss of independence and deploy distancing strategies. The attachment secret: are you a secure, avoidant or anxious partner? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Pace was too preoccupied with renovating his investment to plant much of a garden this year. Review | A chef known for finesse follows his dream to Rappahannock County 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z “I miss you,” he says, and “No Time to Die” is uncommonly preoccupied with memory and leave-taking. ‘No Time to Die’ Review: His Word Is His Bond 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Her mother died soon after her birth, her father is beloved but preoccupied with his legal duties, and she’s largely raised by a strict housekeeper called Teensy. ‘Wilde Lake,’ one of Laura Lippman’s finest novels, feels personal 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Despite its veneer of puritanism, America was a country already much preoccupied with sex – as Alfred Kinsey's renowned investigations, which he had begun the year before, were to show. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z “At the actual wedding ceremony, I let it slide. I was preoccupied for obvious reasons,” the woman wrote. Bride claims she kicked out guests who brought children to kid-free wedding: 'I snapped and said that they just needed to go' 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z And on the title track, shrouded in the same misty country-western nostalgia that has preoccupied Bob Dylan of late, Mr. Hiatt flickers between his gruff natural register and a faint, shuddery falsetto. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He was more preoccupied with the Muslim holiday of Eid which was the next day–a “magical time filled with joy.” The terrible human price of Obama’s drone war 2014-01-28T14:21:00Z But perhaps Pujol’s most outrageous gambit was perpetrated against his own wife, Araceli, a tempestuous beauty who resented living in grim, wartime London with a husband who was completely preoccupied with his work. “Agent Garbo”: Wartime’s greatest double-cross 2012-07-08T22:00:00Z He seemed a little preoccupied with the notion of the man who remains a child, and that is probably true of other designers who went there this week. Front Row: In Milan, a Zoo Roams Large 2012-01-18T17:30:06Z Vann's novel is preoccupied with the idea of pressure, forces both external and internal. 'Caribou Island': portrait of a failing marriage in the forbidding vastness of the 49th state 2011-01-12T22:49:03Z Cable networks are preoccupied with branding these days, and documenting the more sordid aspects of modern life is an important part of the identity of outlets from TLC to MTV to Bravo. Critic?s Notebook: Criminals, Addicts, Misfits: That?s Entertainment 2011-01-20T00:30:21Z There is nothing worse than being totally preoccupied by sex and being unable to perform. My twisted rehab sex life 2012-12-20T23:41:00Z Admittedly, Gotti is not a film overly preoccupied with the niceties of language, but this does not bode well for its sweating of the larger stuff. The eight most criminally awful things about John Travolta's Gotti 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Landis and Trask — preoccupied with aping and synthesizing other films into an ultimately ordinary one of their own — don’t exploit the opportunities they created with their second camera. Chronicle: It's Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage 2012-02-02T16:41:05Z If much of Byrd's work seems preoccupied with the notion of troubled souls laid bare, maybe it's because he has been forced to do a lot of his own soul-searching. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z But none of these efforts and inducements, including invitations for America to invest in Iranian oil, were enough to entice a United States preoccupied with domestic challenges. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z But most of the book is preoccupied with making the argument for Kaufman’s death act. The Belief That Andy Kaufman Is Alive 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In his later years, Mr. Oliveira became increasingly preoccupied with history, and in particular with the rise and fall of the Portuguese empire. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In conversation, she is a paradoxical mix of wide-open spontaneity and preoccupied vigilance. Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z I think it's a way of keeping the population under control – keep them preoccupied all the time. Van Morrison: 'Singing is my profession – there is no plan B' 2012-10-01T13:58:00Z Thammavongsa’s spare, rigorous stories are preoccupied with themes of alienation and dislocation, her characters burdened by the sense of existing unseen. Where Lonely Refugees Learn English From Daytime Soaps 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Her delivery of the solo part is preoccupied with quirky rubato, unusual accentuation and unexpected dynamics, as though straining toward an original statement that hasn’t quite gelled. CD reviews: ‘Considering Matthew Shepard,’ 18 years later 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z And those most preoccupied by beauty and aesthetics are birds. Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Culled from the museum’s permanent collection, they are dusty artifacts of a time when traditional possibilities seemed exhausted, and avant-garde artists became preoccupied by theory, performance and new technologies. Art Review: ?Off the Wall: Part 1,? Performance Art at Whitney 2010-07-29T20:08:00Z Here he quotes Friedrich Nietzsche: “All states are badly organized when people other than statesmen must be preoccupied with politics.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Until recently, the affable, laid-back author had been mostly preoccupied with her work as a television executive, taking care of her two teenage sons and doing mundane house chores. Hundreds flock to meet '50 Shades of Grey' author 2012-04-30T01:09:08Z But what really preoccupied him was the profound intertwining, the ultimate indivisibility, of life and death. Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z She is a handsome performer, though her choreography was slight, and too preoccupied at times with incorporating a small stool. Dance Review: A Dance Grab Bag at La MaMa 2010-06-13T22:44:00Z Magritte was preoccupied with what Haskell, in the catalogue, calls “the idea of false recognition.” Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z And then it feels like no time at all has passed and you look up to see a tired, preoccupied, middle-aged person in front of you. Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011-02-06T00:08:49Z Face drawn, eyes fast and bright, he twitched like a magpie, preoccupied and searching for another image. Painter recolors Afghanistan 2010-04-05T19:16:00Z “A lot of actors are preoccupied with the technical work and hitting the notes. Emma illuminates.” Emma Stone Joins ‘Cabaret’ on Broadway 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Themes that have long preoccupied the writer, particularly in the films “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” reappear in “Antkind.” Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Achatz is almost as preoccupied with the serving pieces as he is with the food that goes on them. The Perfect Menu. Now Change It. 2011-02-16T06:00:43Z Andrew was also a little too preoccupied with his microphone, dragging it along like a reluctant lover. "American Idol" recap: Glambert to the rescue 2010-04-14T12:15:00Z Instead of agonizing over the reality that propelled case counts and death rates, Trump was preoccupied with messaging, pushing everyone around him to engage in what the authors call “happy talk.” Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z With giant gulps between breaths, he confessed the fear that preoccupied him: “My head’s huge!” he exclaimed and cried harder. Motherlode Blog: Lice, and a Buzz Cut for Camp 2013-06-27T13:52:17Z Set in near-future Phnom Penh, Cambodia, “Karmalink” belongs to the branch of science fiction preoccupied with spirituality and metaphysics: Where do we come from and what makes us who we are? Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, airlines are preoccupied with the prospect of modernizing air traffic control, which is also on the agenda. Airline lobbyists and consumer advocates are poised to duke it out over the FAA bill’s fine print 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It was created in the aftermath of the 2007 London bombings, when Mr. McGregor found himself preoccupied with the idea of life underneath the skin of the city. Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z When they talk, Knight still brings up the story of the broken relationship "because he's preoccupied by that conflict and disillusion." Precocious Eloise brings together Lena Dunham and artist Hilary Knight 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z They were preoccupied by lost states of innocence and the darkness we risk in trying to recover paradise. Breakup songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantics 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In both her journalism and Food in England, Hartley is preoccupied with the town-country divide. Bee Wilson: rereading Food in England by Dorothy Hartley 2012-12-14T22:55:05Z Neither is she preoccupied with figuring out how to stay relevant in the face of her longevity and the changing area restaurant scene. A pizza pioneer jumps into the fast-casual game. But can she stand out? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z But both are preoccupied with crises, with protagonists trying to write their own histories in the midst of events bigger than themselves. Pablo Larraín on His Latest Films, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z While exploring the subject of fear mongering, Ms. Bos became preoccupied with the anti-Semitic belief, dating back to the Middle Ages, that Jewish men menstruate and eat Christian babies to relieve their pain. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z I would think something like, “Well, it was the defining event of your adulthood thus far, so naturally you’re going to be preoccupied with it.” I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z Most of us are preoccupied with a slew of mundane tasks on a daily basis, responding to email and social media. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z To be fair, the urge to shock is not restricted to Mo Yan alone: many writers from his generation are preoccupied with sex. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z As it happens, several selections this year are preoccupied with those questions, not with respect to cinema, but in the more rarefied worlds of classical music and visual art. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Barchas’s celebrity-centric reading of Austen is part of a growing body of scholarship that emphasizes the worldly, history-minded side of a writer long seen as a country mouse preoccupied with timeless truths. ‘What Jane Saw’ Is an Online Trip for Jane Austen Fans 2013-05-24T12:00:01Z Both artists were preoccupied with the abject side of the human body — the body as meat. Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z During the recent Erehwon exercise, preoccupied students overlooked some unofficial extra care and feeding of a local guard, who complained of needing shade. After Benghazi, learning to defend U.S. consulates through more intensive training Delbanco’s riveting and unsettling book shows how questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to resonate in our own. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Much of the work is more self-reflexively preoccupied with art than with worldly affairs. Art Review: ‘Anti-Establishment’ and Liam Gillack’s Work at Bard 2012-07-05T19:44:25Z What if being preoccupied with a number on a scale actually gets in the way of better health? Lighten up, dieters! Focus on health, not weight 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Probably I was just preoccupied with those issues, and those preoccupations guided the work. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z She entered Swarthmore at 16, but, preoccupied with theatrical and literary activities, she dropped out and took a job as a copy girl for The Times’s editorial board. Barbara Gelb, Author, Playwright and Journalist, Dies at 91 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The last opus from Neil’s newest is similarly preoccupied with fading away. Neil Young and Crazy Horse Take a Psychedelic Pill Ride to Another Universe 2012-11-02T16:12:58Z But he was just as preoccupied with an alternate, parallel path. Virgil Abloh, Ambassador and Infiltrator 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Weller is preoccupied with being 52, an age at which functioning pop stars can only look forward to lifetime contribution awards and patronising profiles. In praise of ? Paul Weller 2010-08-27T00:03:00Z In it, he sympathizes with a deity who'd like to relieve humanity's sorrows but is too overwhelmed and preoccupied to act – a God who can’t manage to get out of bed and face his day. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z He is preoccupied by the conjuring of three dimensions out of two, and how the positioning of figures, objects and landscape within the pictorial space can harmonise – or not. Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z The irruption of the divine into ordinary life — sometimes sublime, sometimes violent, sometimes absurd — has preoccupied this director for much of his career. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Delbanco “excavates the past in ways that illuminate the present. Some of the questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to hold an eerie and urgent resonance in our own.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But in this respect, the book seems more preoccupied with what David is not than with what he is, and perhaps thereby misses opportunities for narrative development. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z With his book Mr. Morris is reopening a lurid, deep wound that preoccupied much of the nation for years after the crime took place. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z But worn less intensely, it had panache, and also function, not a quality I’m generally preoccupied with but one that now seemed pressing. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper – Superdry in Times Square 2012-11-07T20:09:35Z McShea started out in photography while Mosa trained as a goldsmith, but the two, now partners in work and in life, have long been preoccupied with the interaction between fabric and the elements. The Artists Behind the Ribbon-Filled Set of Loewe’s Men’s Show 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z It was the corroding effects of such rule on the human soul that preoccupied him as much as the unbridled concentration of power. The Silencing of Writers in Turkey 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps the only other genre that is so preoccupied with religion and spirituality in such a focused way is gospel music, yet the two seem like complete opposites. ‘Oh creator, it’s you I now renounce’: How death metal lyrics echo some Bible passages 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z In the crowded cafe, I was, perhaps not surprisingly, overcome with thoughts of my own mother, who was preoccupied until her death with the state of my soul. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z At the same time, Boodoo is preoccupied with the brevity of a dancer’s career. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Even though the chief is preoccupied with acquiring the right number of snowplows for an oncoming storm, he finally stops to listen and understand. 'Fargo' Recap: Baring Teeth 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z With her friend preoccupied by parenthood, Ms. Bush logged into Tinder and Bumble, hoping to connect with someone she could meet for a drink or a meal. Two Epic Dates and an Incredible Arcade Game Feat 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z They were preoccupied with “degeneration” and drawn to eugenics. Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Sartre stressed an ever-present emotional element in human thinking that philosophers preoccupied with truth and validity tended to overlook. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Physicists these days seem preoccupied with astronomical issues, such as the origin and ultimate fate of the universe. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z It is hard to believe that any generation has been as preoccupied with immediacy and the latest technology while simultaneously being so sentimental about their childhoods as mine, but perhaps that's just me being sentimental. The cassette Walkman has gone, and I must move on 2010-10-26T18:02:00Z He tends toward the shambolic, but Ms. Swift is too preoccupied with structure, too locked in to her pop sensibility — especially on “1989” — and Mr. Adams isn’t brave enough to depart meaningfully from the script. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z This collection is primarily preoccupied with stories of war and imperialism in Colombia, legacies that haven’t ended but have instead devolved into generational traumas, state corruption and endless cycles of violence. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Everyone was bored and annoyed, yes, but not preoccupied. Bridget Christie: the trouble with mobile phones 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z It was, he said, "an utter egoist preoccupied solely with its own appearance". St Petersburg by Heather Reyes, Marina Samsonova and James Rann – review 2012-11-20T13:50:01Z Eventually, Mr. Robinson became such a trusted adviser that Milk, preoccupied with the possibility of his own assassination, left a “political will” designating him as his preferred successor. Frank M. Robinson, speechwriter for Harvey Milk, dies at 87 Artists are no different, no less preoccupied with keeping track, though most of them have better handwriting than the rest of us, and their lists tend to be a little neater. 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z When “Dominion” isn’t preoccupied with filling in its portentous back story, it provides some capably filmed action and a higher grade of acting than usual for this kind of show. ‘Dominion’ Brings a Battle of Angels to Syfy 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z “The quartet ideas the students came with were preoccupied with balance and ensemble issues. But converted into trios, the concerns are now more soloistic — which has been productive in its way.” A Summer Music School for Stars, Amateurs and Students 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z He adored his two sons, Franz and Marshall, but “had little talent for parenting” and was always preoccupied. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z In between Stieglitz was preoccupied with other art forms, notably abstract painting and sculpture. Art Review: Photography: A Coming-of-Age Story 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z I find myself now preoccupied more by my own anxieties around screen addiction than by the screen addiction itself. This is your brain on the Internet 2012-08-10T20:09:00Z Her TV career, most of it with ABC News, was preoccupied with “the most fascinating” people and topics. Barbara Walters retires: So long to one of America’s last great listeners on TV Artists may enter the studio preoccupied by the same worries as the rest of us. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z For most of his life, Balram has been preoccupied with survival, with understanding his place in a cruel system and figuring out a means of escape. ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Yes, presumably some of it was in the works before Tedros came along, but these things are monstrous undertakings and Jocelyn has been a little preoccupied. ‘The Idol’ Season Finale Recap: What Was the Point? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z “Lowell Lake was a tall man, rather thin, with thin sandy hair and a distant, preoccupied, though amiable disposition,” the novel begins, a description that applied to the author as well. L. J. Davis, Journalist and Novelist, Is Dead at 70 2011-04-09T05:07:20Z “A lot of you are so preoccupied with whether to point or flex your toes,” he said during one session earlier this month. Is This the Breakout Star of Virtual Fitness? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But it’s not “found” things that I’m preoccupied with. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Political discourse, reasonably enough, is preoccupied with unemployment and wages, with matters of policy and economics. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z It is a film preoccupied with paternal legacy – both for Gosling and for a local cop, played by Bradley Cooper, who has a son of the same age. Eva Mendes: 'I don't care about looking beautiful' 2013-04-04T18:30:01Z “They’re far more engaged; they’re highly preoccupied by their academics performance and their future job prospects ... 62-70% of teenagers say it really matters to them what grades they get, and making their parents proud.” Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z There are indications that she is preoccupied by her past, but she seems more fixated on whether to commit to her current romantic interest. Inspired by Holocaust-Era Letters, a Novelist Examines Inherited Trauma 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Fashion is by definition preoccupied with the present. Scene City: Inside the Met Ball And After Parties 2014-05-07T17:53:58Z Some are most interested in spreading the Gospel, while others seem preoccupied with raking in returns. From ‘Exodus’ to ‘God’s Not Dead 2’: The new wave of religious movies, explained 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z There are essays — miniature pamphlets, almost — on political subjects and especially on the danger posed to the West by Islamic terrorism and totalitarianism, a subject that has preoccupied Mr. Hitchens since 2001. Christopher Hitchens on Writing, Mortality and Cancer 2011-10-09T20:13:18Z For their part, the newcomers are preoccupied by household matters. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z A cartoon on the government flier shows a person dragging away a preoccupied player as a tsunami approaches, shouting, "Stop playing and run!" Japan Offers Tips for 'Pokemon Go' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z You become preoccupied less with the content of the texts than with trying to comprehend the relationships between the different forms of presentation and the underlying, systematic logic of the whole. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Sundance is a producer, but this is a BBC series that is excellent and also amusingly solipsistic: It’s as preoccupied with the waning of British power as it is with today’s conflagration. ‘The Honorable Woman,’ Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z My mother’s protectiveness, in its proper context, is to shield me from ill-intentioned members of my community preoccupied with the so-called honor of girls and women. License to Not Drive 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He also took over a form preoccupied with facts, and turned it rather in the direction of "atmospheres". Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z Shakar's story focuses on New York City technology developer Fred Brounian, who's broke, lonely after splitting with his fianceé and moving in with his parents and preoccupied with life's big questions: What is truth? 'Luminarium': Alex Shakar's novel of a developer adrift in a post-material life 2011-08-25T18:17:04Z Years later, Arthur is still disturbed by these events and preoccupied by a paranoid certainty that the Terror remains at large. Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z But as sad as it was, it was in many ways the ideal playground for ninth graders with preoccupied families and fake IDs. Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z I rarely spent time alone with my father—he worked six days a week, and on Sundays he was exhausted and preoccupied. A Nineteen-Fifties Jewish-American Christmas Story 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z By the time readers discover what really happened on that “ordinary day,” we’re preoccupied with things going on in the present. In Liane Moriarty’s ‘Truly Madly Guilty,’ the trouble begins at a backyard party 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z At least as portrayed here, this was a culture preoccupied with vitality, almost devoted to the life force until confronting its opposite. Exhibition Review: When the Dead Arise and Head to Times Square 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z But then Roiphe has always been preoccupied with appearances, writing as if the same can be said for everyone else. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z We are still preoccupied with our own bodies; it is the Paleolithic link to animals we miss. Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar 2013-02-16T08:01:02Z Although its characters may have been preoccupied by the oil business, “Dallas” was mostly about struggling to maintain your identity — not to mention your sanity — within the suffocating confines of the middle-American family. Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z Ask this preoccupied, middle-aged academic about his work, and he’ll wax eloquent about how the loss of a language means the tragic vanishing of an entire way of life. Learning the words for love in ‘The Language Archive’ 2013-05-22T19:20:46Z Even Richard seems so preoccupied that his reaction to the death of his own daughter is understated. Review: ‘Childless,’ a Film of Connected Monologues, Stars Joe Mantegna 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z That said, the program is preoccupied with blood and death, so much so that the episodes are preceded by a viewer advisory. Where the Wild Things (and Narrators) Are, on Television 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z And he does work for President Trump, the original proponent of weird hair, a man famously preoccupied by his own uncommon standards for personal appearance. Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z But he has long been preoccupied by the destruction and transformation of the Indigenous environment by colonialism, “from the tiniest plant to the largest nonhumans around,” as he put it. Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z She was so preoccupied with the bedbugs that she forgot, for the first time in her career as a reporter for the New York Post, to prepare for an ideas meeting, a humiliating experience. Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan - review 2013-01-24T09:01:01Z The 62-year-old said most people were too preoccupied listening to their own headphones to really care. Teen makes snoring stepfather hand out 'care packages,' earplugs to fellow airline passengers 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z But he was also a little preoccupied with whatever was taking place at the tips of fingers to get lost in the thought. Is It Street Wear or Is It Art? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z He looks preoccupied and moves with a wary, imperious grace but is sweetness itself. Carlos Acosta 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z It’s as dangerously shortsighted now as it was then to be preoccupied with the higher statecraft of political-military excitements. Dissecting Kissinger, and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z As in his last book, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, Dickey is preoccupied with remains and remainders, with examining the cultural afterlives of singular individuals and the bodies they uneasily inhabited. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z I definitely became preoccupied with the idea of absent fathers. ArtsBeat: Jaclyn Moriarty Talks About ‘Cracks in the Kingdom’ 2014-04-29T18:11:10Z The novel is called “Class,” but it’s just as preoccupied with race, and Ms. Rosenfeld deserves a great deal of credit for taking on this minefield of a subject. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Its title character, like Clark, is a pensioner preoccupied with teenage delinquents. Larry Clark: teenage rampage 2011-02-13T09:30:00Z Inscrutable, stubborn and pessimistic; preoccupied with historical traumas, dead writers and old movies; and yet, in spite of what looks like nostalgia and sounds like fatigue, unmistakably — defiantly — present, alive and engaged. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Now at a similar age, your ex may also be preoccupied with memories of that childhood abuse. My ex told me years ago she’d been abused. Is it too late to help? | Dear Mariella 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Cole seems preoccupied with what exists outside of these photos — how little we see, how blind we are even when we’re traveling to expand our worldview. The 10 best travel writers you’ve never read but should 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z His religious work is also preoccupied by changes of form. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I've got a feeling that I always was a little preoccupied with the subject. The old magic 2012-09-27T22:37:10Z But as directors vie for visitors with a burgeoning number of public and private museums, they are not preoccupied only with cafes and shops. Special Report: Museums: Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums 2010-03-16T20:00:00Z “When you find yourself preoccupied, do something to bring yourself back into the moment,” she said. How not to lose things: Three techniques for keeping track of your stuff 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Ridiculous, yes, but also engaging — and maybe some relief for viewers who are preoccupied with politics but could still use a break from cable news. ‘BrainDead’ makes every easy Washington joke there is, but it’s still entertaining 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Americans, interestingly, tend to be most preoccupied with those dangers that are among the least likely to cause us harm, while we ignore the problems that are hurting the greatest number of people. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z It's a relationship that has clearly preoccupied him. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z Friends of his, on their way to the airport the previous day, were preoccupied by Brussels, he says. The Capitol may be ready for a terrorist attack. But is your favorite bar? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Hoffalt has the elegant physique, clean technique and partnering skills needed for the part, but rather than be beset by an existential dilemma, he looked entirely preoccupied by the extraordinarily fussy, devilishly hard choreography. Ballet Review: Ballet Stands on Ceremony 2013-12-10T16:26:42Z Mr. West did not seem preoccupied with such logistics. Kanye West Debuts ‘The Life of Pablo’ and His Yeezy Season 3 Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z No, Sir D is just filling Bill in a bit on species connection, which is what preoccupied the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero; Endeavour: TV review 2013-04-22T06:00:20Z For a genre so preoccupied with infidelity, a key component of a good erotic thriller is commitment. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “Besides me already being preoccupied with it, it was a good way to tell the story. It was so scary. It was so monstrous.” How Dasha Nekrasova Is Calling the Shots 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The British are, by general agreement, uniquely preoccupied with the weather. Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z Ever since, I’ve been preoccupied with a mystery: how one of the world’s most sophisticated and flavorful cuisines can be reduced to such a starchy and insipid mess. On the (Rising) Trail of Thai Food in America 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In moments, he seems preoccupied by his own faintheartedness. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z You could call him a caricature of a man’s man, a restless rogue who couldn’t be tied down, a gearhead too preoccupied with his wheels, a.k.a. the Millennium Falcon, to pay much attention to womenfolk. The Problem With That Major Force Awakens Scene 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z There is none of this kind of meta-commentary in Ryan’s novel, which is more preoccupied with what these men will never fully understand about their own lives, let alone the lives of others. A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He’s so preoccupied keeping up with the neighbors that he nearly loses his mind. Keeping Up With New Delhi’s 1 Percent in ‘The Windfall’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The picture of Salinger that Maynard draws for us is of a man preoccupied by homeopathic medicine who had a diet regimen built around vegetables and ground lamb cooked at very low temperatures. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z But the prospect of a public vote, and concerns about the tone of the debate, preoccupied lawmakers as much as the ethics of euthanasia did. New Zealand to vote in referendum on euthanasia 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Some of the questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to hold an eerie and urgent resonance in our own. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But they also seem melancholy and preoccupied with the negative critical response to Miracles. And God created controversy 2010-10-08T23:03:00Z Humans, like most animals, are preoccupied with satisfying immediate needs. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The character is “preoccupied by it, freaked out by it, excited by it,” Levy said in a low voice, leaning across the table. With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The earliest space travel movie, made a decade before the first World War, is preoccupied with industrialization and diplomatic squabbling. Rocket Science: 10 Great Astronaut Movies 2013-10-07T09:45:49Z Mr. Morris recalls that he had the sense that Bellamy existed in some space removed from ordinary existence and that when he spoke he was still preoccupied with thoughts from that other space. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Listen, we don't go into this business preoccupied by awards. Davis, Dujardin win lead honors at SAG awards 2012-01-30T03:56:08Z The art world, a frenetic, fast-paced, international business, is as preoccupied by the “getting and spending” of life as any other sector. Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle But all of this seems a decidedly remote possibility at the moment, with many of us Earthlings preoccupied with more immediate, less lofty matters. Review: ‘Mars’ Blends Fact and Fiction, but Has a Bumpy Liftoff 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Being childless felt like my dominant identity and the when/if/whether question preoccupied me. Perspective | I did not have children. Here’s how I guide young people struggling with their own decision. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Even when it's white, Batchelor's art is preoccupied with colour, and all the pleasures to be found in the everyday world. The best art exhibitions and events for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z Mr. Jacobs is curiously preoccupied by fairy-ring mushrooms, which grow in expanding circles, much to the chagrin of fussy lawn owners. Art in Review: PATRICK JACOBS: ?Familiar Terrain? 2011-02-10T23:27:25Z Hendricks’s interest in Black figuration in the 1960s and 1970s put him outside the mainstream of Black artists during that period, many largely preoccupied with civil rights and the Black Power movement. Portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks Will Hang With Old Masters at the Frick 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z A university friend of mine, who preferred not to be named, took various internet-bought diet pills along with her boyfriend, who was just as preoccupied with having a slim, toned physique as she was. ‘I thought it was a miracle. Then I started shaking’: the danger of buying diet pills online 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z “Transhood” is fixated on transition, and therefore preoccupied with time, or at least that seems to be its intention. ‘Transhood’ Review: Five Years Pass as Transgender Kids Grow Up 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “Victory City” builds on many of the themes that have long preoccupied Rushdie — the power of myths and legend to shape history, the conflict between the forces of multiculturalism and pluralism versus fundamentalism and intolerance. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z If Brahms and Mozart seem preoccupied with troubling thoughts in these two works, neither piece quite fit with the “Music of Conscience” theme. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In a strange way, Twitter has helped Alameddine negotiate a boundary that has always preoccupied him. The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z These questions, typically bouncing from sincerity to exasperation and back again, have preoccupied writers, planners, architects and civic boosters for nearly a century. Opera-on-wheels 'Hopscotch' drives home the complicated pull of downtown L.A. 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z These two shows are quite different — “Twist” mostly ponders issues of civic definition and our place therein, while “The Big Meal” is more preoccupied by existential matters that aren't glued to place. Theater: The best shows of the season 2011-03-10T20:24:53Z Are you “preoccupied with fantasies that the world is ending because of the selfishness of others”? Maybe we all are. Review: ‘The Selfishness of Others,’ or I’m O.K. — You’re a Narcissist 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Raunch culture is a cruel form of gaslighting keeping girls and women preoccupied with the male gaze. Britney Spears is a cautionary tale of pornification 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z In a tale preoccupied with report, he now disregards its significance. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z They seem genuinely less preoccupied with fitting in than they are with writing and performing music they love—a fact they share with true candor. The Restless Spirit of the Heartless Bastards 2013-07-30T15:19:01Z Rather, most of the artists — like most people on the planet — seem preoccupied with memory, and the way family members and the community at large influenced them. National Portrait Gallery exhibit features an exploration of Latin self-identity The government was preoccupied with other things for the time being, added D-Caf's Attar. Artistic revolution follows 2011 uprising in Egypt 2013-04-22T13:49:33Z It was one of the few "diva" items to move quickly, as most shoppers were preoccupied by the cheaper hats and accessories piled into cardboard boxes. Devil horns and diva dresses fly off the rack at L.A. Opera costume sale 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The thin line between funny and straight in comedy has preoccupied Hader since his childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when his dad, “a huge Monty Python fan,” first laid great comedy on his son. Bill Hader: ‘I’m a fraud, I really shouldn’t be here’ 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “Your bag is lighter, you aren’t as preoccupied with keeping track of everything, and it’s easier to simply enjoy the present moment.” Five Packing Tips for the Traveling Couple 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The collection, however, is an ongoing study in design evolution, spanning centuries, but fundamentally preoccupied with ideas of innovation and contemporary problem solving. Cooper Hewitt design museum’s artful renovation matches mansion to mission Indeed, his grand return to moviemaking one-upped the convulsive shootout that brutally ended the bank robbers’ spree, and yet he was just as preoccupied with the moment’s social significance. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z For a man who just sat through a celebration of his career, Duchovny seems quite preoccupied with the unselfish nature of both basketball and acting. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps so, but as on the runway, this remains an industry overwhelmingly preoccupied with paying homage to the female form. The ‘High Jewelry’ of Paris Couture Fashion Week 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z They move into an area where there are a lot of people preoccupied with all the new sights and sounds. Smash-and-grab theft gang targets Naperville 2011-09-23T23:52:00Z In addition, he said, painting “was a way for him not to be preoccupied with his thoughts all the time — it was an escape.” The Art of Doing Time: Prisoner, Painter, Escapee 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z At the end they were full of literal questions, preoccupied with the mechanics of dream travel and the inconsistency of making wishes that came true sometimes, but not always. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z Western works are morbidly preoccupied with the perishability of the body; Eastern works take a holistic, Buddhist view of death as a passage between states of being in nearly endless cycles of reincarnation. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z Through much of the 20th century, it bears recalling, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius remained a puzzling figure, an outlier from the frozen north largely preoccupied with exotic local color. Review: Celebrating Sibelius and His Slowly Imparted Secrets 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Her personal life adds to the story’s complexity, as she begins a relationship with a married man and becomes preoccupied with the violent mugging of a friend’s brother. Katie Kitamura and the Cognitive Dissonance of Being Alive Right Now 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z I turn to say something to Mr. Gardner, but he is preoccupied. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z How the company stays in business is a mystery, since the staff is full of misfits preoccupied with personal problems and infighting. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Ferrante’s Naples novels are preoccupied with questions of authorial power, as well as with the emotional and personal risks writers face when mining their own families for material. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z While staying in a sanatorium in RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire, he became preoccupied with books – consuming at random everything from translations of the classics to Hobbes, Descartes and Wittgenstein, and contemporary British fiction. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z I was preoccupied with trying not to choke to death, so didn’t pay much attention. Blind date: ‘I asked if he needed the loo’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z And Laura Bush was largely uninterested in the kind of high-concept fashion thinking that preoccupied someone like Nancy Reagan, who, we’re told, meticulously labeled every dress with the last occasion on which it was worn. From Eleanor to Michelle: The Inside Scoop on First Lady Fashion 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z For all his cosmopolitanism, he remains a distinctively Italian figure, and “For Lucio” is a movie preoccupied above all with Italy’s cultural memory and identity. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z That was 50 years ago, and as you would expect of an organisation preoccupied with lineage, the cult has successfully perpetuated itself through the ages. From Rosemary’s Baby to Hereditary: why the creepy cult in horror refuses to die 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Le Guin died at the beginning of 2018, and this posthumous book is preoccupied with spare musings on age and mortality. New & Noteworthy 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The book revisits questions that have long preoccupied Luiselli — how can language be an agent of both violence and repair? — but this time, they are nested into a story with a heart-stopping climax. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z He also complained that Wilder showed little interest in the visual aspects of the film, being too preoccupied with the script and the performances. Christopher Challis 2012-06-08T15:34:25Z His best movies, the first “Wall Street” among them, are preoccupied with the more primal matter of power and its corollaries — honor, loyalty, hubris and disgrace. | 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps': The Pride That Went Before the Fall 2010-09-23T16:10:00Z The gist: He shouldn’t be pencil thin or stare too hard at shopping bills or be preoccupied with work. | 'Vettai': ?Vettai,? by the Tamil Director N. Lingusamy - Review 2012-01-15T23:21:11Z It is one that Bunnag designed, and he was clearly preoccupied with rather more than the color of the curtains. On Cloud Nine at Phulay Bay 2010-03-03T10:00:00Z “I’m not preoccupied with my whiteness,” Harlow said. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Traditional Jewish themes preoccupied Bloom from first to last. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z Milward seems less preoccupied with maintaining a coherent narrative than treating every page as a different stylistic experiment. Kimberly's Capital Punishment by Richard Milward – review 2012-08-17T21:55:09Z So Jimmy mattered a lot in lots of negative ways, and in fact preoccupied Chuck to a certain extent. ‘Better Call Saul’ Finale: Michael McKean on Chuck’s Inflammatory Act 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z At Groton, I had been preoccupied with the differences between me and my classmates, between girls and boys, liberals and conservatives, loyalists to the feminist cause or unrepentant boors. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z That is a message all preoccupied with female attire should heed. The Saudi housewife who spoke out 2010-04-12T10:00:00Z Blonde Redhead released its first two albums in 1995, part of a downtown New York indie-rock moment still preoccupied with Sonic Youth’s muscular and meditative dissonance and the long tail of no wave. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z His work, though, is essentially, intentionally dirty, in both senses of the word: frank about sex in all its manifestations and preoccupied with the discarded and disordered. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton For a convivial chap, Simon Gray was oddly preoccupied with loneliness. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z Still, in writing about Harlem in the 1960s, Whitehead found himself returning to themes that have long preoccupied him: racial injustice, class disparities, entrenched power structures that allow the ruling class to exploit the vulnerable. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z What an audacity to build a novel around a character preoccupied with self-erasure! ‘The Volunteer’ Braids the Lives of Fathers and Sons 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z I become preoccupied with her time in prison, of her days spent behind barbed wire. Meeting my husband’s killer 2014-01-21T12:45:00Z As we become more preoccupied with debates about end-of-life care, is the question of when death arrives going to overtake the question of when life begins as a contentious subject? ArtsBeat: Jill Lepore Talks About Life, Death and the Stages in Between 2012-06-06T21:29:46Z “It’s such a trip just to survive,” the singer howls, and Aksel is preoccupied with matters of life, death and popular culture. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Even on a channel that is preoccupied with money. ‘The Filthy Rich Guide,’ a Look at a Lifestyle, on CNBC 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Watching, you have the feeling that Mr. Taylor is preoccupied by what to make of Mr. Samson’s mysterious gentle-giant quality, his imposing frame and smooth musculature. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z Mr Cohen’s own writings are preoccupied with the search for redemption, “the one theme that, with slight variations, would consume him throughout his career”, Mr Leibovitz writes. Redemption 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “Thammavongsa’s spare, rigorous stories are preoccupied with themes of alienation and dislocation, her characters burdened by the sense of existing unseen,” Sarah Resnick writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The kids keep pestering Tony Stark about his last adventure, in , but he doesn’t want to talk about it: he’s preoccupied with his brand-new world-saving mission. Stark Love: Iron Man Three Grabs the Global Gold 2013-05-05T19:09:45Z However, Bruno is preoccupied with two crises on his own patch. Bears and Poets: Endangered Prey in This Week’s Crime Column 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Modern American journalism, preoccupied with the idea of objectivity and detachment, had needlessly snuffed out its own voice. SXSW 2011: Jay Rosen on bloggers vs journalists 2011-03-13T10:58:05Z The regime is preoccupied with being the first country to land a man on the moon – or at least so it seems. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z But Mr. Glover’s best subject was himself, a star on the rise still preoccupied with the things and people that once held him back. Music Review: Comedian Who Raps, or Rapper? 2011-05-15T22:06:42Z Both writers have been haunted by their Caribbean past, preoccupied with exploring the extent to which their birthright has shaped them and made them, like it or not, the people they are. Two Writers Haunted by Their Caribbean Past 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Schur, 46, has been preoccupied with how to be a good person for as long as he can remember. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Lamar’s music seems increasingly preoccupied with rap, and songcraft generally, as a means of freedom, and as a subject worthy of its own scrutiny. Kendrick Lamar’s Latest Restless Innovation 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z I had been so focused on my problems with work and my relationship that the week before her stroke I was stressed, preoccupied, and sad. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Struggling with business as usual after ‘the scariest moment of my life’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Snider rarely seems preoccupied with who might be listening, only that he gets to say what’s on his mind. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z At the time, Tippett was preoccupied with reviving early English music from Purcell's time and earlier, but was hampered by the lack of a convincing male soloist for the the 17th-century composer's alto parts. Alfred Deller: a voice from the past 2012-05-31T09:52:25Z But it is largely preoccupied with how Indians, blacks and whites coexisted in those early times. ‘The Manor’: unearthing a history of Northern slavery 2013-07-24T22:05:57Z But his singing can be technically shaky, and on this night he often seemed preoccupied with the workings of his voice. Music Review: Kristine Opolais Makes Met Debut in Puccini’s ‘Rondine’ 2013-01-13T21:20:46Z But as he’s become more famous, his work has turned more insular, and more preoccupied with the wages of fame. 3 Rappers Peeking at Eminem’s Playbook 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Day three came, when I was to tackle the leg that most preoccupied me: a fly-fishing expedition in the Alaskan bush. Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Though “Killing Commendatore” does not address authenticity in specifically national-cultural terms, the novel is preoccupied with the possibility of making art infused with depth or spirit. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Philosophers, preoccupied for decades with metaethics, returned to the discussion of substantive ethical issues – the moral questions that concern the general public and, in particular, religious believers. Religion is not really about ethics 2011-04-08T17:15:52Z I once edited a story about lemon bars and became so preoccupied thinking about them that I went home and made them. Just Desserts 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z True, mother is a little remote, and preoccupied with her best-friendship with a Roman Catholic nun. | 'The Talls': A 17-Year-Old Beanstalk From a Wholesome ?70s Family Is Eager to Go Far Out 2011-08-16T21:14:24Z Today, we seem to be more preoccupied with lightness. Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 ? review 2011-02-17T09:51:50Z To judge from the works of his I’ve seen, he’s not remotely preoccupied by ballet’s virtuosity, hierarchy or orthodoxy. Vail International Dance Festival Features Seven New Works 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The four characters are so preoccupied with insult-hurling, petty politics and simmering romance that they aren’t fully on guard against the possibility that they’ve stumbled into a village full of malevolent forces. Review: ‘They’re Watching,’ and Reality TV Is Capturing Every Eerie Second 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Even The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button – ostensibly an Oscar-baiting romantic epic – is preoccupied with grief. David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’ 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z In more ways than one, it’s also an intensely literary film, preoccupied with language — Hebrew, which Ms. Portman speaks fluently — and preferring nuances of mood and memory to details of plot. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The clothes were technically accomplished and all that, but something of the stale air of a boy’s bedroom lingered over the preoccupied men and their folksy classics. On the Runway: Paris Men's: All That 2011-01-21T22:39:44Z But rather than appearing troubled by an existential dilemma, he looked entirely preoccupied by the extraordinarily fussy, devilishly hard choreography. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Paris Opera Ballet 2013-12-22T20:39:11Z Ever since Johns first introduced mirroring devices into his work in the mid-1970s, he has been preoccupied with a dynamic of replication and loss. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Do we secretly yearn for beings that eat things out of the trash and drool when excited to be preoccupied with geopolitics, insurance rates or 4G data plans? A Dog’s Purpose? To Speak on Film, So to Speak 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Like most of Ms. Tyler’s characters, the Whitshanks live in Baltimore and are much preoccupied with their own family dynamics. Anne Tyler’s 20th Novel, ‘A Spool of Blue Thread’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But from its first line the novel is breathtakingly preoccupied with light, the way it animates a beautiful and cannibalistic landscape: In Shaping Her Own Story, She Upends a National Epic 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z And though many are seen in retrospect as towering leaders, most, like politicians everywhere, spent their careers preoccupied with threats to their own power, fending off the attacks of forgotten political rivals. No unity in diversity 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Cunningham's focus on the minutiae of thought, on the mental fluctuations that preoccupied Woolf in her storytelling, is, he argues, the single thing the novel has over its racier competition. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z And if they did, they’d be too preoccupied with avoiding and annoying one another to do anything about it. 'War,' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s New Play 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z More preoccupied with time than place, this deceptively simple documentary by Jean-François Caissy regards the turbulence of adolescence as a negotiation between risk and restraint. Review: ‘Guidelines’ Is Jean-François Caissy’s Look at High School 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z He was not the only person I met who was preoccupied with the vanished Moroccan Jews. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Despite the obviously sexual and aggressive dimensions of his art, Acconci, who had studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, insisted that he was preoccupied with high-minded intellectual concepts like perception and language. ‘Unspeakable Acts’ Revisits a Pivotal Moment in the Art World’s Treatment of Sexual Violence 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until Grandma was dying that I became preoccupied with her life. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s worth noting, though, that the most jolting song here is the one least preoccupied with yesteryear. On ‘Encore,’ Anderson East Revisits the Rough Soul of Yesteryear 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The first album was also preoccupied by painful love affairs, though sweetened by cute-sounding hits such as "Little Bit". Lykke Li: 'The slightest remark can get me crazy' 2011-03-06T00:09:32Z So at least they are preoccupied with something other than their own selfish flesh-hunger. Zombie movies – ranked! 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The movement was deeply Afrocentric, preoccupied by obscure samples sourced from rare vinyl, and resistant to violence and misogyny as lyrical themes. The Tribe Flies High Like a Dove 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z However, the show is preoccupied with questions of reproductive justice, of which abortion is one very big piece. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Sam leads Helen to "Nathan," who is preoccupied drawing gory pictures in crayon of people and animals being eviscerated. In HBO's creepy thriller "The Third Day," Jude Law makes grief the ultimate jump scare 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z I think I’ve been preoccupied since I was 11, and my father died, with the idea of the age 39: Would I live that long? Television: Newly Invigorated, Facing Adversaries 2010-09-17T17:50:00Z Throughout the first act, Julia is preoccupied with the idea of selling Grandmother Wentworth's highboy to an antiques dealer so she can use the money to fund a trip to Paris. Heather Havrilesky asks a radical, essential question: “What If This Were Enough?” 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison’s novels and poems over the last two decades have been increasingly preoccupied with mortality, never so much as in “Dead Man’s Float,” his very good new book of verse. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z In 1947, having left Nazi-occupied Vienna for the quaint idyll of Princeton, N.J., seven years before, the mathematician Kurt Gödel was studying for his citizenship exam and became preoccupied with the mechanisms of American government. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z It was me, not him, who was preoccupied with death. 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s admittedly hokey and a little too convenient, but “11/22/63” isn’t envisioned as a work of sci-fi that’s preoccupied with relativity, paradoxes and other restrictions pop culture imposes on a make-believe phenomenon. What Hulu’s absorbing ‘11/22/63’ tells us of the harm of dwelling in the past 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z “All the films before then were really preoccupied with people in very glamorous, grownup jobs, and living in lovely apartments in New York or wherever,” says Shearer. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Like the author, the book's protagonist, Shaltiel Feigenberg, is a storyteller, and, like Wiesel, too, most of his work is "intellectual, preoccupied with the mystical." 'Hostage': Elie Wiesel's novel of kidnapping and captivity 2012-08-22T19:12:05Z His new novel doesn’t share that fantastical element, but it’s just as preoccupied with aging. Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z But, movies and money were the last thing on his mind, says Watson - preoccupied as he was with getting his book onto the shelves. Kidman memory movie buoys author 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Instead, children often become preoccupied with their own feelings and less able to tune in to or organize themselves around others. Motherlode: Teaching Children to Do Good 2011-04-11T16:48:18Z On Friday, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy urged Pyongyang to stop being preoccupied with the film and concentrate instead on areas such as human rights and the economy. Sony wrestles with how to market 'Interview' amid geopolitics, scandal 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z The title refers to the things that preoccupied her earlier in life — she’s 77 now — but no longer do. The Unreality of Being a Celebrity 2011-05-16T11:00:17Z I convince myself a story isn’t good enough before I even start it and am often preoccupied with questions of acceptance, representation and inadequacy. Don’t Quit Your Daydreams and Other Advice From Mindy Kaling’s Books 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Shooting the film, he was preoccupied only with the business of what his character is going through as he struggles to save himself. The Carpetbagger: Robert Redford Had His Doubts About ‘All Is Lost’ 2013-12-13T18:56:50Z “Walker is clearly as preoccupied by the natural forces and rhythms of new life as she is by the end of life,” S. Kirk Walsh writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z For a swift antidote to the optimistic platitudes of new year, there's nothing quite like hospital waiting rooms, where any rogue act of exuberance is swiftly countered by the collective frowning of the preoccupied majority. Michael Holden's All ears 2011-01-15T00:06:04Z Both these filmmakers, two of the greatest of the movie-brat generation, are preoccupied, in their respective ways, sometimes nostalgically, with older movies, both European and Hollywood. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z Mr. Morris has been preoccupied with obsessive personalities throughout his career, and here he scrutinizes the obsessive elements of Ms. McKinney’s story, including the media hysteria surrounding it. Weathering a Scandal and Now a Movie 2011-07-09T03:53:02Z Mr. Johnson is clearly preoccupied by gender and sexual politics; these concerns infuse the cool vectors of his choreography with texture and heat. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z While Catholics routed Protestants and Protestants retaliated, royal heads were preoccupied with serious matters, such as marriage. Cloying Royals Scheme for Greater Glory 2010-05-19T13:38:00Z "Challenged," on the other hand, seems preoccupied with keeping the beat for a steady rhythm of jokes, even as it challenges viewers to ignore the implausibility of its premise. "Romantically Challenged" not likely to win hearts 2010-04-17T00:30:00Z With no access to physical books in the camp, the lectures are naturally preoccupied with the almost Proustian exercise of remembering Proust’s text. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I became so uncomfortable, so preoccupied by my own body, that I sabotaged myself. Motherlode Blog: Breastfeeding, and Working, at Rio+20 2012-07-06T17:57:19Z It’s a film preoccupied with the way we fashion our lives into storytelling. Streaming: is the Brazilian film Araby the movie of the decade? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Later, he will acknowledge that he pushed Rémi away, but in the moment he’s preoccupied, like a surfer, with keeping his balance on what feels like a treacherous and challenging wave. ‘Close’ Review: This Boy’s Life 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z “I’m always preoccupied by the painting that I want to do tomorrow or today,” he said. Black Is Still the Only Color for Pierre Soulages 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z But Mr. Luisi, who is charged with negotiating the future of WWE’s movies, is preoccupied with a different kind of muscle, namely the company’s tremendous fan base. The WWE Enters Into Partnerships With Movie Studios 2012-03-25T01:27:19Z It also effectively documents the way that an artist preoccupied with the primacy of paint and the visceral expressions of children’s art becomes victim of a creeping tendency toward prettifying his work. A pair of critics on Karel Appel: Two ways of saying ‘meh’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Photograph: Channel 4 Coverage of Royal Ascot is often preoccupied with meringue-nest hats and so forth, but there's a rather decent race meeting going on as well. TV highlights 18/06/2013 2013-06-18T06:00:03Z That someone, nay, anyone, would become so psychotically preoccupied by butter carving is part of the joke, that being that human beings are capable of becoming fixated on almost anything. Review: 'Butter' is hardly the high-priced spread 2012-10-02T15:08:09Z I let the others sing out to bears, too preoccupied about losing my balance on the narrow beams that traversed the mud flats with 25 pounds strapped to my back. Explorer: Where Alaskan Adventurers Lay Their Heads 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z I’m afraid I have zero faith in our current president’s ability to cultivate the kind of open-mindedness that reading even one good book requires; he is far too preoccupied with gazing at his own reflection. Andre Dubus III: By the Book 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It began after Trump visited New Bern, North Carolina, and was preoccupied with a yacht that had landed in a resident’s backyard. Stephen Colbert: Trump spoof book ‘Whose Boat’ wrote itself 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z These magnificent collages preoccupied Bearden for the rest of his life and have tended to overshadow the rest of his multifaceted career. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z “In ‘Mouthful of Birds,’ all of the issues that feminism has been preoccupied with in the last 10 years are there, but written with the naïveté of someone who was 18 years old,” she said. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Either way the signal he’s sending loud and clear is that yours is a platonic friendship and he is otherwise preoccupied. I admitted feelings for a friend. Why is he deleting my emails? | Dear Mariella 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “When you are a mother to a young child — a single mother, a married mother — you’re constantly preoccupied with your child.” Mom-Coms Latch On to the Raw Reality of New Motherhood 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “I could be given a hot dog and some diving rings and I’d be preoccupied for hours,” she says. Perspective | Pool parties are soul-crushing spectacles of half-naked strangers posing next to an artificial swamp 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The result is a shoot ’em up that speaks not just to a younger audience eager to witness life’s sudden, Gatling-gun-assisted end, but also to an older audience preoccupied by life’s twilight. film: Now Queen of the Firing Range 2010-10-08T20:59:00Z It’s so preoccupied with protecting the sanctity of the real marriage that there’s no imaginative risk to the fictional one. Hey, Are You Looking at Me? Good. Now, Buzz Off. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The persistence of poverty preoccupied King and provided a vision of the work ahead. Review | HBO documentary about MLK’s final years shows an exhausted, conflicted hero 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z In “Twelve Tribes,” Michaeli isn’t preoccupied with the political future of Israel and Palestine. Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z "The vernacular press did not notice cinema because it was too preoccupied with politics." The birth of India's film industry: how the movies came to Mumbai 2013-07-25T17:07:55Z What, for example, would you do if your daughter, disturbingly preoccupied of late, announced, “I’m havin’ holy visions, Ma”? Review: ‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Rumpled and barefoot on a cold winter day, Mr. Pettibon, who turns 60 this year, seemed a little preoccupied. Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “It took on a life of its own,” he said, “and it’s preoccupied me for the best part of seven years now.” Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Now, Holleran has written a novel preoccupied with twilight and letting go, while doubling as a portrait of place, assembled from sketches of life in Florida. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z The museum had been preoccupied with financial problems for the past decade — since it completed its $150 million building on Independence Mall, a short walk from Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell Center. Proceeds From Rare Treasures Sold at Auction Help Steady Jewish History Museum 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z During this past decade, he has been preoccupied with legendary tales retold using motion-capture animation – The Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol. Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z He makes dances that are primarily about dancing, except that in many of them he seems preoccupied by more specific subject matter. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z Somewhat worryingly, for example, Ulin becomes preoccupied with the Grove, which dominates the second half of his book. 'Sidewalking' author David Ulin jumps feet first into trying to understand Los Angeles 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z We become preoccupied with the private, not the public. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Here, Ms. Newsom’s narrator is preoccupied with thoughts of birth, aging and death, and seems only halfway to enlightenment. Review: Joanna Newsom’s ‘Divers’ Shares Thoughts of Life and Death 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Stacey: What if the outside voice tells you the bride may have been preoccupied, understandably and forgivably so, on her wedding day? Carolyn Hax: Wedding present to best friend is a long-term, secret grudge 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z And to think that this is how these people, who are so preoccupied with posterity, will be seen — if they are seen at all — in the years to come. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z He’s increasingly preoccupied by the aesthetic value of these now-vanished, all too unremarkable daily routines and rhythms. ‘Still Life With Monkey’: A Mischievous, Gluttonous Primate 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z We are preoccupied with repairs, restorations, reparations, reformations — attempts to redo or reconceive the past. Exhibition Review: World’s Fairs of 1930s Showed Boundless Vision of Prosperity 2012-12-06T23:31:49Z Strains of maternal and ecological horrors underpin this story; Amanda is preoccupied by “rescue distance,” or her ability to protect her daughter, and a poisoned environment figures into a child’s monstrous transformation. Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z As a rule, Rodrigues isn’t a showy director: He is a humanist at heart, preoccupied with empathy and the ways in which today’s world undermines it. Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z You may have been this way before but been pushed for time and for space, preoccupied by whatever and generally kept at bay from the surroundings by their mighty cordon of noise. Alone in the City: a Christmas Day walk around London 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The stories are preoccupied with mental illness and a sense of disappointment at the world. Prose by Thomas Bernhard ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:06Z His major label debut album, “Testimony,” is different from most R&B in one crucial way: It’s preoccupied not with love and conquest, but with despair and perseverance. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z His biographers say it was there, in 1890, as he interviewed prisoners in a penal colony for the census, that he became deeply preoccupied with human suffering. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z He finds her novels preoccupied with "strategic thinking", an idea at the heart of game theory. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z But directors seem especially preoccupied with the subject lately. Now showing: 'Suffering for their art' films like 'Birdman' and 'Whiplash' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Staring down stacks of needy pie plates clamoring for attention, I find myself instead preoccupied, almost giddy, with anticipation of the second Monday in October, which is Canadian Thanksgiving. A brief history of Canadian Thanksgiving 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Others said Russians had been too preoccupied with their day-to-day problems to try to change the political situation. A Russian Rapper Brings His Banned Antiwar Message to Istanbul 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Imagine Dragons is preoccupied with a few elementary sonic ideas — deeply forthright guitar rhythms and melodies, jagged juxtapositions between loud and soft, gestures in which one instrument rises to the top and quickly commands attention. Imagine Dragons, a Rock ‘n’ Roll Survivor by Any Definition 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Throughout his writing life, Orwell had been preoccupied with consensus reality — its necessity and vulnerability. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Ever since that afternoon, I've been preoccupied by what writers have to say about drinking, especially those who have been drinkers themselves. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z This summer, I'm preoccupied by my series of London street musicians. Markéta Luskačová's best photograph: Ginger the musician 2012-08-22T15:58:35Z “Game of Thrones” could be as far away as you like, preoccupied with its own make-believe. Perspective | Was ‘Game of Thrones’ supposed to mean anything? Only if you wanted it to. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Well, he is preoccupied, and also haunted; an apparition of a woman, dressed in what looks like a Chinese opera costume and makeup, appears to the camera and to Carsten frequently. Review: In ‘Gavagai,’ a Widower on a Quest 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z But he also seems preoccupied with impressing his inner hipster, as with an attitude toward race that dares you to call it cavalier. ‘Last Looks’ Review: A Hollywood Murder Mystery Full of Clichés 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z A Brooklyn-based narrator preoccupied with identity decides to help his best friend have a child in this frequently brilliant second novel. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z This contradiction in terms has preoccupied artists for millenniums. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Much of the prologue seems preoccupied with establishing what Morris isn’t interested in talking about or revealing. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But he was also preoccupied with whether to come out and when. He was very interested in my story. Lord Browne: testimonies on life inside the glass closet 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Liszt commissioned an Italian libretto and worked on the opera between 1849 and 1852, when he became preoccupied with other projects. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z "You are preoccupied with all the beauty of the underwater world and don't realize how much swimming you are doing," says Manos. 2010-02-16T21:00:00Z To do that, Toni closed the door on what far too many writers and artists of color become preoccupied with when they make, directly or indirectly, “whiteness” their subject. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It is a blurriness perfect for a film preoccupied with cultural reinvention, the compromises and affectations made in aid of success. Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't' 2013-05-23T18:30:01Z The demand has taken everyone by surprise: during the day I am with her, Little spends most of her time preoccupied with the dilemma of more people having subscribed than can actually be accommodated. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z She wanted sex but I couldn’t be aroused by her; I was too preoccupied with the women online. My life in sex: ‘I would get up at 5am and masturbate for hours’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps that’s this dog’s function or perhaps Sherlock got lonely now that Watson is preoccupied with caring for a new baby. 7 Questions Sherlock Needs to Answer in Season 4 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The other is weirdly preoccupied with details and arcana, marking the minutiae of the Old South and especially the Confederacy. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Since retiring his Madea character last year, the prolific writer and director Tyler Perry has been preoccupied with several projects. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘S.N.L.’ and Young Dylan 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z One piece of advice for anyone who wants to read this highly entertaining, beautifully crafted and philosophically enriching novel: Don’t become too preoccupied with how each chapter connects with the next one. Review: ‘The Symmetry Teacher’ by Andrei Bitov Coetzee is usually cast as a cold, austere and cerebral writer; a South African Beckett, gloomily preoccupied with the operations of power and desire. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z Questions of translating his experience have long preoccupied him. ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Georges takes this unexpected crossing of paths very seriously, and is soon preoccupied with Marguerite to a near-violent level. 'Wild Grass': Surreal farce captures growing obsessions 2010-07-22T21:44:00Z The arrival of the novels later this year will give McCarthy scholars and fans insight into questions and subjects that have long preoccupied him, Jackson said. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "Holler" certainly doesn't shy away from the social issues that preoccupied Hansberry a half-century ago. In Tupac Shakur's 'Holler If Ya Hear Me,' an unlikely Broadway trip 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Not only was this a crude reduction, it ignored the constant development and refinement of the theory, which preoccupied the Russian until the day he died, weighted down with international honours, in Moscow, in 1938. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z It is important to note that Lawrence's definitions of "man" and "mankind" at the outset of this project not only incorporated woman but were chiefly preoccupied by her. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z They pay heed to the basics — blood nourishes, sunlight burns — but none of them are primarily concerned with vampire arcana, the thicket of abilities and limitations that preoccupied an earlier generation of shows. On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z On the album, most songs are preoccupied with taking a stand against the casual cruelties of the music business — Simpson is the warrior. Sturgill Simpson Leaves His Old Sound (and the Spotlight) in the Rear View 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He’s not preoccupied with crafting songs — though when he relaxes, he makes some of the most thrilling ones. Future and the Art of Flooding the Market 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z His photographs for Vice, though stunning, seem weirdly preoccupied with cigarettes and simple carbohydrates. | Fashion Pills and Furry Shoes 2013-08-30T23:30:12Z Either he’s a dangerously indecisive person or is so preoccupied with his own emotional needs that he’s entirely blind to everyone else’s. My husband left me for another woman – but now wants me back | Dear Mariella 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z It is, as discussions about abortion often are, so preoccupied with scrambling for the moral high ground that it pays no attention to the women being trampled underfoot. Perspective | The unmerciful ending of Roe v. Wade 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Martin’s act is not only a rebuke to simple, romantic notions of comedic truth, it’s also explicitly preoccupied with artifice. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Steve Martin: The Television Stuff’: A Comedian’s Evolution 2012-09-17T21:49:26Z He is referred to only as “he,” a self-conscious flourish in a narrative preoccupied with the disconnect between public and private lives. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Lawn or no, he happily takes on the preoccupied busybodies who invade his slacker realm. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z But in his artistic pursuits, he isn’t preoccupied with the “pleasant.” What’s That Smell? It’s ‘Festen,’ a Play and Film With Aroma 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Like many painters of his day, his secular work was preoccupied with stories from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” which yielded one of the painter’s most distinctive masterpieces, “Liberation of Andromeda,” painted around 1510-1513. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Senator McCain, though convincingly played by Mr. Harris, is a secondary character, decent and sympathetic to his running mate’s plight but preoccupied with his own problems. | ?Game Change?: In ?Game Change? on HBO, Julianne Moore Plays Sarah Palin 2012-03-08T13:00:00Z He's been, in a sense, the anti-Taylor Lautner — a regular guy who never seemed all that preoccupied with his public image. Miles Teller explains his 'Divergent' diss 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Instead—and understandably so—“Only The Dead” is preoccupied with Ware’s trauma, one earned both honestly and dishonestly. Michael Ware’s Iraq War doc doesn’t hold up: “Only The Dead See The End Of War” captures the horror and confusion, but skimps on analysis 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Two official investigations, begun in 1947 and 1963, failed to reveal the identity of the informant; the matter has preoccupied multiple biographers since. A Strong New Lead in ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z And Mr. Smith was too preoccupied with finishing his Ph.D. to invest a lot of time in dating. On Craigslist, 3BR Unfinished, Future Husband Upstairs 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Her boyfriend, Karl, preoccupied with his mother’s illness, is acting distant. Who is Deb, anyway? In 'D Deb Debbie Deborah,' more questions than answers 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The maid is preoccupied too, although the stormy seascape she unveils may forecast trouble for the couple’s relationship. Art Review: Inspiring Comparisons With Vermeer 2011-04-28T21:46:13Z As a form, horror is preoccupied with the unknown and ostensibly monstrous, a fixation that manifests in visions of otherness. ‘Candyman’ Review: Who Can Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Blood? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Combine that with feckless Democrats who are so preoccupied with sportsmanlike governing that they lose the ability to govern at all. Perspective | This is what the beginning of the end of the Roe era feels like 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Without it, anti-abortion activists would demand that Republican politicians, inevitably preoccupied with the electoral odds, pursue a more radical agenda than American voters actually wanted. Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z |
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