The girl talked on, and Ernie, enraged by her flippancy, said that he doubted her word, since Bernard and Maisie had become engaged that evening.
Probably, if I had been more engaged, that would have helped.
The conventional thinking is if they're not engaged, that will benefit Schundler".
The fact that people are discussing the election and are working and engaged — that very much fits our culture".
If the crew was confused about whether the auto-throttle was engaged, that could have been a factor, according to aviation experts.
"There's been research that shows that if you put an ad in an environment where people are highly engaged, that kind of intrusiveness can really backfire," he said.
His mind was engaged — that much is clear if one reads the transcript, in which the match is noticeably more even than it was on the screen — but his spirit was absent.
But if you begin with another (to my mind, more accurate) assumption — that it's our nature to be active and engaged — that leads you down a very different road, one that's actually more effective.
Conversely, I can't help feeling that Europe's stagnant economies, its sense of decline, have much to do with an attitude to the rest of the world that is defensive rather than engaged, that is expressed as fear rather than curiosity.
Wainaina's book, which typifies the new trend, is politically and socially engaged – that is, it attempts to explain Kenya and Africa, but it does so without a knee-jerk resort to colonial woes, and this is very welcome.
He thereupon proceeded to supplement his avifaunal survey with a shotgun sampling, undertaken by himself and several natives whom he engaged, that yielded four hundred and thirty-two specimens.
