After a concert one night, she noticed that Miranda, engrossed in conversation, unintentionally ignored someone who was leaving her dressing room.
He would spend hours at the State Hermitage Museum engrossed with works by Wassily Kandinsky, and he relished photos of East European exhibitions in smuggled art revues that were banned in the Soviet Union.
Some of the pictures in the creation part of the Oran Mor murals, of mammals, reptiles, plants etc, were copied from a book called The Miracle of Life, which engrossed him as a boy.
The Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. has engrossed the American public for many reasons -- its implications span ongoing debates over healthcare, religion and reproduction.
While at Bell Labs, he became engrossed with a question that came to occupy his postwar work: was it possible to build an artificial brain?
Since coming to power in February, the fragile coalition government, run by Benazir Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, has been engrossed in internal wrangling over removing President Musharraf.
Instead, the fifth graders studying art in Kathy Potocki's classroom at the Post Road Elementary School here were engrossed in a discussion of pictures of various sculptures that a visitor was showing them.
He then turned his attention to his team, Edison, becoming fully engrossed in its pregame rituals.
One contributor to "The Brony Study" (below), Dr. Marsha Redden said that the adult fans are "a reaction to the US having been engrossed in terrorism for past ten years" in a manner similar to the Cold War, and are "tired of being afraid, tired of angst and animosity"; the show and its fandom are outlets from those strifes.
Yasuhara had in fact been previously assigned to help Cerny establish STI in 1990, but the outbreak of the Gulf War delayed his move to the United States by three months, during which time he joined Sonic Team and became engrossed in the Sonic project.
A woman reading in a cafe is oblivious to a man walking and reading nearby; the caption says, "Soul mates, each engrossed in same tome, never meet". The following vignette takes a humorous, fantastical turn: A weeping artist-vampire laments his inability to ever paint a self-portrait.
