All 15 Uses of
preoccupied
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- " She broke her preoccupation to give me a look for my own sake, straight, and said with a laugh that didn't last, "You take my side, don't you?"†
Chpt 12
- I wanted to talk to Thea about this, but she was too preoccupied with other things.†
Chpt 16preoccupied = took up the attention of
- It now astonishes me less, for I know more about how people get preoccupied.†
Chpt 17
- Because nobody anyhow can show what he is without a sense of exposure and shame, and can't care while preoccupied with this but must appear better and stronger than anyone else, mad!†
Chpt 19
- He appeared to have grave weights on his mind and to be preoccupied with superior things.†
Chpt 20
- Not the poor, dark, disfigured creature cramped by his falsehood, a liar from the cradle, flogged by poverty, smelling bad from cowardice, deeper than a latrine in jealousy, dead as a cabbage to feeling, a maggot to beauty, a shrimp to duty, spinning the same thread of cocoon preoccupation from his mouth.†
Chpt 21
- So if sometimes I saw she was preoccupied I considered that probably her preoccupations were with me.†
Chpt 26preoccupied = took up the attention of
- So if sometimes I saw she was preoccupied I considered that probably her preoccupations were with me.†
Chpt 26 *
- What do you think it is, to drag people from their preoccupations, where they do their habitual toil!†
Chpt 26
- Now my foster-home and academy dream was not a preoccupation but one of those featherhead millenarian notions or summer butterflies.†
Chpt 26
- Other preoccupations are my fate, or what fills life and thought.†
Chpt 26
- Among them, preoccupation with Stella, so that what happens to her happens, by necessity, to me too.†
Chpt 26
- Suppose I started to explain that she loved me too, but loved me in the same way that Paris is the City of Man, or with what she brought to it, given her preoccupations—love being the victory of love over preoccupations, or what Mintouchian called dominant ideas that afternoon in the Turkish bath.†
Chpt 26
- Suppose I started to explain that she loved me too, but loved me in the same way that Paris is the City of Man, or with what she brought to it, given her preoccupations—love being the victory of love over preoccupations, or what Mintouchian called dominant ideas that afternoon in the Turkish bath.†
Chpt 26
- People don't do what they have a talent for but what the preoccupation leads to.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, preoccupied can mean that someone has already inhabited or taken something.