As transport secretary, Hammond proved to be hard working, undemonstrative, and able to absorb detailed information, especially financial data.
As union members absorb details of the agreement before meeting to vote on its approval over the next three weeks, the company and financial analysts mainly seem relieved that the strike is effectively over.
He has tried to make sure he is on the same page as everyone else and has tried to absorb details one at a time, to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
Ludwig strides the room dissecting the game and challenging us to absorb details. "You got that?" he asks a glazed-eyed student.
The heroes of this book, whom Mr. Elie discusses in absorbing detail, are towering modern interpreters of Bach.
Diagrams and explanations present absorbing detail about the outlying forts and the great military engineer Henri Brialmont who devised and constructed them.
Its cool complexity — four people dancing different phrases at the same time, all satisfyingly studded with absorbing detail — makes it compelling on each viewing.
The story of the pill, ably recounted in "Devices and Desires," is told in absorbing detail and from an international perspective in "Sexual Chemistry," by Lara V. Marks, a British historian of medicine.
It also shows, in absorbing detail, how Mao's catastrophic "concept of a special Chinese path of development," as Pantsov and Levine assert, "could arise only in the post-Stalin environment".
But the stories of how Puccini's 10 operas came to be, the tales of the playwrights he had to flatter and the rivals he had to hoodwink in searching for subjects, are told in absorbing detail.
One of my most memorable trips to the zoo as a primary-school parent involved a long conversation with a seven-year-old in my daughter's class who insisted on telling me, in absorbing detail, how her own Sats results had matched, even possibly outstripped, my own child's, all in a voice that spookily echoed that of her pushy mother.
