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  • The continent, he says, "has become incredibly self-occupied and internally focused."

    Rebuilding a Greener Unilever Paul Sonne 2011

  • It might surface during one of those calls from home, when a once self-occupied teen suddenly asks, “But, Mom, how was your day?” or asks about your childhood.

    The iConnected Parent Barbara K. Hofer 2010

  • Some gerotranscendental behaviors include: becoming less self-occupied and more selective in choosing social activities; experiencing increased affinity with past generations and one-on-one communication, and decreased interest in superficial social interactions; diminished desire for material things and an intensified need for positive solitude and reflection.

    Rachael Freed: Legacy: A New Vision of Aging 2009

  • She seems to have been largely unconscious of her declination; self-occupied and self-contented, she scarcely noticed His absence; she was resting, resting alone, — never asking where He had gone, or how He was employed.

    Union and Communion 1832-1905 2000

  • "I know, " she said with a bitterness not entirely masked, but Dieter was too self-occupied to recognize her scorn.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • The longing for companionship is God given and must be fostered, else the youth will enter maturity a recluse and self-occupied, but nurture must carefully deal with it while life is in a state of flux.

    The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

  • Thornton, a road-map tacked on a piece of board and propped up at his feet, raised his head, and, self-occupied himself, had apparently not noticed her silence, for he spoke irrelevantly.

    The Miracle Man 1909

  • Throughout the week his intimacy with Hermann Falbe had developed, shooting up like an aloe flower, and rising into sunlight above the mists of his own self-occupied shyness, which had so darkly beset him all life long.

    Michael 1903

  • Anne hoped the gentlemen might each be too much self-occupied to hear.

    Persuasion 1892

  • Anne hoped the gentlemen might each be too much self-occupied to hear.

    Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892

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