"absorbed in something" is a perfectly acceptable phrase for written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is so focused on one thing that they are oblivious to everything else around them. For example, "He was so absorbed in his project that he was not aware his house was on fire."
True leaders are absorbed in something much bigger than self.
You're not so absorbed in self, but you are absorbed in something beyond self.
You see it in children, when they are absorbed in something and an adult is calling them.
When I am completely absorbed in something, such as when I pick up my guitar and have a little sing.
For life to have meaning and purpose, it must ultimately be grounded or absorbed in something that is infinite something that will never die.
What a nice cloak a book can be on the subway or the train, or while sitting at a bar, enjoying the buzz of humanity while absorbed in something else.
The next night, Juliette, back home, was absorbed in a book (something from Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series, but even so…), so Louise was outnumbered; Maja and I chose "The Magnificent Ambersons," which (as reader DrewH commented) is scandalously unavailable on DVD but which we had recorded when it was on TCM earlier this year.
One of my enduring images from that day was of a woman sitting on a smashed suitcase in the field by the runway, absorbed in searching for something in her purse, seemingly oblivious to the massive pillar of smoke a hundred yards away, where 59 people had just lost their lives.
The research has created a road map for all the runners — and artists, chess players, rock climbers, etc. — who seek the exhilaration you feel when completely absorbed in the pursuit of something difficult.
Yet all these bits and pieces seem digested and absorbed into something unique, and only in that sense has Miss Reyes in a few years evolved "a national dance form" strongly based on the physical disciplines of classical ballet but entirely uninhibited by any rigid sense of tradition.
Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things.
