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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