When he got to debtors' prison, in July of 1797, he decorated: "The necessary repairs of the apartment allotted to me in this abode of human wretchedness has so engrossed my attention that I have not looked into a book scarcely the last week," he complained in his diary.
Similarly, CuNPs have engrossed great attention in catalytic applications.
When we're engrossed, we pay attention, and turning a dial is utterly unintuitive.
You look down and the popcorn is gone, and it's like, 'Who ate this?' because you were not really paying attention, you were engrossed in the movie and not in what you were eating.
One day I brought a comic book to read, and I was so engrossed in it that I failed to pay attention to signs of movement until the sound of a screen door swinging shut shot through me.
"Ms. Friedrich has pilloried the man," the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote on Monday, while Der Spiegel asked, "Did Ariane Friedrich do the right thing?" Ms. Friedrich, 28, who is known for the fierce faces she makes while engrossed in her sport, has never shied from public attention.
(You wouldn't bypass Shakespeare because the language and rhythm are unfamiliar). In this distracted age, it's interesting to watch characters so engrossed in their conversations, conversations that require the full attention of the viewer, too.
He then turned his attention to his team, Edison, becoming fully engrossed in its pregame rituals.
I paid scant attention to him, because I was finding myself engrossed by Wilkins' speech.
TUESDAY We were engrossed in morning preparations at work when a colleague called our attention to the latest "episode" of Saddam's trial -- a form of cheap entertainment for many Iraqis against the backdrop of dreary events in Baghdad.
