The phrase "ability to absorb a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to take in or understand information, experiences, or substances.
Example: "The student's ability to absorb a large amount of information quickly impressed the teacher."
Alternatives: "capacity to take in a" or "aptitude for absorbing a".
"I think people's ability to absorb a fractured mise en scène," he said, "is extraordinary compared to 40 years ago".
'I think people's ability to absorb a fractured mise en scène is extraordinary compared to 40 years ago.' Way before he was firmly established on the public radar, those in the business had clocked him.
His contribution was to argue for a version of deterrence that relied on what became known as a second-strike capability — the ability to absorb a first blow and retaliate.
While analysts generally welcomed the second-quarter rise in profitability, some expressed reservations about the company's ability to absorb a major management shuffle at the same time it is coping with its cost-saving measures and a string of acquisitions.
However, in 1955 Don Cockell took a boat to San Francisco to challenge Rocky Marciano for the heavyweight world title and the ninth round massacre still remains a measure of any fighters' ability to absorb a beating.
Kim had recently obtained another telemarketing gig, a job whose chief requisite was the ability to absorb a gale force of customer hostility and whose chief benefit, by Kim's lights, was that she could get to it without taking the bus.
In an economic context, fully irrigated wet rice, as recorded (for instance) in colonial Java, had an enormous ability to absorb an increasing labor input and to feed an increasing population.
In his case confusion led to an ability to absorb all sorts of circumstances and to empathize with people in every strata of society around the world.
In its ability to absorb such a heterogeneous list of ingredients and still retain its identity and appeal, the chocolate-chip cookie is representative of the aspirations of the country for which it has become the preferred treat.
This behaviour, already found in the matrix swelling, could be attributed to a slower hydrolysis kinetics of the ester bond in functionalized Tween monomers, which implies a reduced ability to absorb water from a basic medium, resulting in a lower capacity to release the loaded drug.
It shows an uncommon ability to absorb and synthesize a large amount of information on what was, for an undergraduate in 1981, a fairly arcane topic.
