Sentence examples for a man absorbed from inspiring English sources

But a woman did not have to go up in smoke to feel alive — it was possible to find an exhilarating kind of breathing space with a man absorbed in his work, who did not provide safety, who did not or could not play the traditional male role.

At the outset Alfred appears the nobler of the two, a man absorbed in writing a book on human responsibility who has just returned from a sojourn in the mountains, where he has discovered things about himself that have shaken the foundations of this personality.

I didn't know what I was doing there, listening to a man absorb my life story and then reach a conclusion I already knew.

We talked about Gaga and what it means to be a queer man absorbed in her world.

There is Hemingway's story "My Old Man," absorbed by generations of college students.

Mr Kennedy is not a man naturally absorbed by the detail of policy making.

1958) is as a Finnish Peter Lieberson — a man who absorbed the whole technical apparatus and attitudes of twelve-tone orthodoxy but emerged with his soul intact.

He's believably a man so absorbed in his work that he takes for granted everyone else's understanding of its importance, with disastrous results.

Both men absorbed blows that would render a lot of fighters unconscious, but Gatti kept asserting his superior skills throughout.

Manning absorbed the needling of teammates, mostly requests for loans after he signed a deal that could be worth as much as $54 million.

They show about only 10 of the men absorbed more than the allowed safe dose, and the rest of the 1,500 responders were not harmed.