Once, Father Camp became so lost in reverie that Sheppard had to get his attention, to get the Mass rolling again.
Three years later he came back to me and I said, 'You need to stay at my house for a week because you're so badly beaten up.' But he said, 'I can't, I'm committed to another tournament.' He became so lost that he eventually gave up the game.
"The true magic of this broken world," Mr. Chabon writes hauntingly, "lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place".
A planet in this state would not be uninhabitable immediately, but would eventually become so by losing all of its water to space.
With deep, soul-searching lyrics of lost love, obsessive love, regret and joy; and talent and skills that are interchangeable and unwavering, Mumford and Sons proved no matter the genre, when a band has that special "It" factor, fads and trends and market analysis really do become irrelevant, so lost in the emotional pull and the human masses who respond.
Charlie's problem with Christmas is that it's become so commercial, and lost its true meaning.
We become so distracted and lost in our own heads that we stop thinking of our partner as a real person being affected by us.
THE WEST HAS become so obsessed with losing vast numbers of jobs to globalisation that its anxiety is now the butt of jokes.
As Democrats, we have become so afraid of losing this election that we're afraid to hold Barack Obama accountable for changing directions or criticize him at all.
While DEET is not really a repellent, he said -- mosquitoes typically touch skin DEET is on -- once they get it on their legs or antennae, they become so overstimulated they lose interest in their prey.
