It is the virtuosity of the people who brought us the invasion of Iraq, not the vaudevillian villainy of the evangelical right, surely, that should engross the attention of our paladins for truth and justice.
An extraordinary poisoning case is engrossing public attention in America at the present moment.
"I find incessant labour with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, the best method to remove palaver out of one's style," he wrote.
Following are excerpts from notable inaugural addresses calling for the nation to meet great social or economic challenges: Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
But what makes it such an engrossing read is his almost hallucinatory attention to detail: the frozen-rigid clothes limiting his movements, the blisters in his fingers turning to ice, and the maddening wide-open twilight of the Antarctic.
The second half of the novel actually has quite an engrossing plot, but you need to pay attention to the ruminations that kick it all off to get the most out".
"Jim the Boy" is just as good as those books, engrossing in every way, and deserves even more attention, which it may get as readers turn now to its worthy sequel, "The Blue Star".
Attention must be paid to Tom Stoppard's engrossing play, but it proves nowhere near as baffling as many people claimed when it premiered London in 1988.
It's impenetrable, but engrossing in a way that makes me wish I had the attention span to digest it.
So, while "Gone Girl" wasn't a film considered in the study, we can assume that Nick's pursuit of her clever clues would capture viewers' attention, while scenes following her reappearance might be less engrossing.
"Are you paying attention?" breathes Benedict Cumberbatch's Alan Turing in the opening moments of this handsomely engrossing and poignantly melancholic thriller from Norwegian director Morten Tyldum.
