Sentence examples for absorbed in reading from inspiring English sources

I became very absorbed in reading about the lives of the navvies.

He was huddled over and completely absorbed in reading the front page of the newspaper.

One need not be acquainted with any of Ms. Lessing's earlier works, however, to become absorbed in reading this memoir.

Mr. Ballmer and Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, were walking across the law firm's lobby, when Mr. Ballmer — absorbed in reading a document from Nokia related to the deal — tripped on a glass coffee table.

Liz Garbus, the documentary filmmaker, was on an airplane on her way to the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008, when she became absorbed in reading the obituary of the chess champion Bobby Fischer".It was such a great story," she recalled recently while sitting in the Brooklyn offices of Moxie Firecracker Films, the company she owns jointly with Rory Kennedy.Ms.Ms

Cultural references, from Johnny Rotten to Erik Satie, are refracted through a lens of Chinese politics; through much of the book, Jian is absorbed in reading Vassily Grossman's magnum opus, Life and Fate, the epic novel of human survival under totalitarianism.

In the Paar Room, a chaperone attends the music lesson of her adolescent charge, but is too absorbed in her reading to notice the indiscretion between teacher, pupil and harp.

The kindergarten through second-grade students spend 30 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings absorbed in these reading and writing exercises.

Dressed in fussy bowtie and moustache, the man is totally absorbed in his reading, which the film quickly identifies as a mode of distraction when the reader pours coffee and cream into his hat.

Mary is absorbed in her reading and seemingly unaware of her surroundings.

She is absorbed in her reading of a holy book, the covers of which include a chemise of white cloth, a common form of protective binding.