Sentence examples for absorb us from inspiring English sources

The players whose talents will one day absorb us must be children first.

The pictures and sounds served up through our PCs, iPods and smart phones absorb us deeply but in isolation.

"Our past lives are a succession of moments that absorb us at the time but have faded or been entirely forgotten.

LOSE YOURSELF IN AN ACTIVITY "Doing activities that completely absorb us can be good while on vacation," said Elizabeth W. Dunn, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia who studies consumption and happiness.

Because our cultural identity has been well defined for thousands of years we cannot bear a migratory wave of people who have nothing to do with us … who, on the contrary, aim to absorb us".

What should absorb us as historians is not the singular glory of a Napoleon but the mute, inglorious lives of ordinary people — what Tolstoy calls the "swarmlike life, where man inevitably fulfills the laws prescribed for him".

In the U.S., the Devil absorbs us.

And perhaps it absorbs us more than we can absorb it.

The house is big, old, and comfortable, and it absorbs us all.

Further along, the bird life absorbed us: cranes, dancing in pairs, wings fluttering like fans.

Books about wild places release us from the trap of technology into a world that absorbs us.