Significados de intense preoccupation en inglés

She almost resented his intense preoccupation with stories that brought in so little cash.

In a mood of wistfulness and of intense preoccupation, he began his journey to Washington.

Jondalar was finally distracted from his intense preoccupation by movement in the brush near the water.

The intense preoccupation of the last war preparations had left him very little time for grieving.

When I returned, my colleague was standing with his hands behind him, gazing with intense preoccupation at the footprints.

Jones remembered all this perfectly well, and thought it was his intense preoccupation that made the distance seem so short.

His intense preoccupation in her half fascinated, half discomforted her, the more so because of the feverish lustre of his eye.

His face was noticeably thinner than a month ago, and his eyes had a troubled fixity such as comes of intense preoccupation.

Kneeling beside the bed, the boy must have exuded a nasty stench, because the women, despite their intense preoccupation, took note of him.

Through his confusion of impressions, his intense preoccupation with present dangers and future contingencies, the thought of Natalie floated now and then vaguely but comfortingly.

She gazed at the surgeon steadily, as if puzzled at his intense preoccupation over the common case of a man "shot in a row."

Constance and Sophia, busy with the intense preoccupations of youth, recked not of such matters.

"Oh yes," said Lydgate, falling backward in his chair, with ill-repressed impatience under the banker's pale earnest eyes and intense preoccupation with himself.