Absorption Field at gallery HOMELAND.
The curtain rises on a stage full of women who, standing still, go through a ritual series of movements that start fatefully but dramatically in one arm, move down the body and turn into utter absorption in classical discipline.
The study of absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and pharmacokinetics (ADME/PK) has developed into a relatively mature discipline in drug discovery through the application of well-established in vitro and in vivo methodologies.
But the rhapsodic lilt and music of the later verse derives from a complex technical discipline, so that Thomas' absorption in his craft produces verbal harmonies that are unique in English poetry.
And theres much to learn, as Trang points out, from "the historical Vietnamese process of absorption, adaptation, refinement -- of invention and discipline held in the mind simultaneously.
The absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs from the biological systems are the principal objectives of this discipline of pharmacology.
A potentially more rewarding approach would be to adopt from nutrition's sister disciplines of pharmacology and toxicology the analysis of systemic metabolism of a component with the Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion (ADME) model.
He could also project a petulant self-absorption that was difficult for me to take but not difficult for me to understand: his actor's discipline gave him access to the turbulence of youth.
Utter absorption can cloy.
Such an absorption is called resonance absorption.
