There was something so isolating as a kid when my family turned on the TV to absorb world news on a Friday night, and the only reactions I could see to current events would be that of the people in the room, and those of the people on the screen.
PARIS — When Gilles Simon faces Roger Federer on Sunday in the fourth round of the French Open, Simon will have multiple weapons at his disposal — his speed, his signature two-handed backhand down the line and his world-class ability to absorb world-class power and snuff out attacks that would sink less resilient men.
But rose-colored glasses protected Sue from what would have been a truly ugly adolescence, had she absorbed the world's view of her: homely, mediocre, a nobody.
Other incentives, he said, could include "the lifting of all economic and political sanctions against North Korea and the opportunity for that little country to become completely absorbed in world affairs on a normal basis".
Other nations, notably South Korea under President Kim Dae Jung's "sunshine policy," have been trying to induce North Korea to be absorbed in world affairs on a normal basis at least partly, if not completely.
Timmy has absorbed a world of knowledge.
The book is part history (about his grandparents' background and their social, political, and intellectual milieu) and part memoir (about how Sasha absorbed that world of matzo balls and Marxism in his grandparents' London home).
The book is part history (about his grandparents' background and their social, political, and intellectual milieu) and part memoir (about how Sasha absorbed that world of matzo balls and Marxism).
We talked about Gaga and what it means to be a queer man absorbed in her world.
Do we truly have to absorb the world's surplus populations until we become like the third-world countries from which they come: overpopulated, with our resources depleted and with massive unemployment?
"I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others".
