Sentence examples for absorbed in tasks from inspiring English sources

Spending these last years absorbed in tasks by which I do not identify myself, and for which I have very few reference points, has allowed me to hear, when approaching my fiction, right at the instant when all the frequencies are tapped into at once, what is static, and what is tuned.

Along with slick knife skills that belie long years of practice, he has the easy enthusiasm of a born teacher and his charges are absorbed in their tasks.

Attached to doing everything, and doing it perfectly, I've watched leisure hours slip away as I became totally absorbed in my tasks.

I have visions of him utterly absorbed in those tasks, lost in the world of his imagination, but more importantly in the world of HIM.

"Software engineering is like building something, like a craft, you become completely absorbed in the task.

They're so absorbed in the task that, even when tours finish and they get some time at home, they gravitate towards each other.

He stressed the importance of a quiet kitchen, because the calm was protective, allowing his team to become absorbed in the task at hand and to focus on details.

And once in a while, when you are in the magical state known as "flow," where you are completely absorbed in your task and lose track of time, it doesn't apply.

In any event, the established German writers who had survived the Nazi period through 'inner emigration' (if only at the cost of various kinds of compromise and distortion), and who might have been expected to tackle the subject, were absorbed in the task of touching up their own biographies.

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.

I settled down to take some photos of the cobwebs, happily absorbed in the task of trying to capture their fragile, jewel-like beauty.