Sentence examples for absorbed in a task from inspiring English sources

The term, coined by psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi an early proponent of positive psychology and currently a professor at Claremont Graduate University in southern California describes a heightened state of being, where we're so absorbed in a task that concerns like time, food, and self-consciousness disappear.

Dissociation does not have to be pathological: it can occur in normal life when, for example, one becomes absorbed in a task to the exclusion of other aspects of the environment.

The English language is full of phrases that suggest that we are most productive when we "forget ourselves," are "absorbed" in a task or manage to "get out of our own way".

It went on to suggest that the time saving may be minimal, as the average journey is 19 minutes, thus leaving minimal time to be really absorbed in a task.

I can't help wondering if being completely absorbed in a boring task is a "good thing" but I can see it's useful in the world we live in.

This may be due to a distraction effect by being absorbed in a complex task.

It communicates a sense of difficulty and frustration, and also the kind of elation that comes from being absorbed in a heroic communal task.

Twain was happier then than he would ever be again — vigilantly absorbed in a visibly meaningful task, doing something that matters and that everyone can see matters.

But because it is attached to an almost complete body (the missing right hand that held the strigil was lost only a few years ago), the figure's intense gaze takes on a new meaning; it no longer seems the faraway stare of a dreamer but the concentrated look of someone absorbed in an apparently mundane task.

Everybody was absorbed in a book.

She is in profile, absorbed in a magazine.