Sentence examples for absorbing works from inspiring English sources

However, a handful of absorbing works do not a convincing exhibition make.

This is absurd: just as it's irresponsible for a historian to rationalize fantasy-based portraits of a historical figure because they make the individual accessible to the masses, so is it myopic to insinuate that accuracy and compelling writing are somehow mutually exclusive — as absorbing works like Mr. Ellis's books on the founding fathers have made very clear.

Both are incredibly well-researched and absorbing works.

The show's two most absorbing works, though, exploit the total-immersion potential of the installation format.

Some of the most absorbing works, though, are those acquired specifically for the wing, or that have languished in storage.

"Requiem for an Assassin" lacks the depth of the author's previous, more absorbing works, such as its predecessor, "Killing Rain".

"What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War," by Chandra Manning (Vintage Books), is a consistently absorbing work of bottom-up history.

Before it failed to win the Mercury prize, Blackstar was already an outstanding, absorbing work, and a unique talent's final gift – to borrow a phrase from a Bowie compilation.

Upon reflection, I realize that I had many new friends and absorbing work relationships that really helped me through a difficult period in my life.

But as you absorb works like Deborah Butterfield's strangely moving, full-size stick figure horse, or a VW Scirocco the entire car hanging from a tree, or a videotape recreating 24 hours of light over stain glass in Paul Kos's chapel-like "Chartres Bleu" what is most striking is the quality and pleasure of surprise of the individual pieces.

Getting someone to translate her thoughts into a form that others could more readily absorb worked well, she said.