It is a narrative of absorbing interest.
In my experience, small children left to themselves find everyday life of absorbing interest and are never still.
That the route follows his treatment of sexuality needs no defence: it was a subject of absorbing interest to him and of central importance in his work.
The complexities of foil fencing as practiced under the ideal conditions of the schools, or salles, with reverence for the set rules and conventions, produced a game that became an art of absorbing interest.
There are, for example, only two reasons for children to go to school – apart, that is, from acquiring the werewithal to earn a living: to make friends, and to see if they can find something of absorbing interest to themselves.
Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest -- the dead body of an oldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death in a building where surgeons dared not to stay?... My pen is heavy.
The teachers said they had not heard that one of their alumni might be involved in the attacks, but it does not completely absorb their interest.
As long as football, rugby, tennis, Formula One - in their tidy, telly-friendly packages - continue to absorb fan interest and broadcast rights money, other sports will have to adapt.
Earnings yields on equities still remain comfortably above the yield on 10-year Treasuries and should have the ability to absorb higher interest rates driven by economic recovery.
China absorbed his interests and energies to the exclusion of the Mongol homeland, and for years he was actually engaged in civil war with rival Mongol princes of the steppes.
