preoccupied

As he tried to make his way through a crowd of mourners late last month, he looked preoccupied and even disoriented.

Foxx is hopeful that young people are evolving past the point of being preoccupied with race.

Your fiction is preoccupied with the past—even the contemporary stories have an aura of looking backward.

Now, few filmmakers are as preoccupied with time as Richard Linklater.

Living vicariously through his teammates was better than being home, preoccupied each day with his eroding strength.

She was still preoccupied, still she seemed to see Hamza running beside her towards the mountains, praying among the rocks.

She was like a woman who is preoccupied with something, and perhaps annoyed by an unwelcome guest.

There was something very strange and preoccupied in his movements, Beardsley thought, more than a mere tiredness.

They swarmed with people of all nationalities, who looked very much preoccupied, and as if in search of something.

For weeks thereafter he would be like the ghost of a man in the house, haggard and silent and preoccupied.