Sentence examples for engrossed him from inspiring English sources

He strayed into themes that engrossed him but no longer set his temperament ablaze.

In one project, which has engrossed him since 1972, he has been carving a vast "city" into the desert of Nevada (without allowing anybody to see it).

Although it was only one of many mountains he climbed over the course of the 20th century, guiding innumerable clients up and down with inexhaustible good cheer, no other so engrossed him.

Some of the pictures in the creation part of the Oran Mor murals, of mammals, reptiles, plants etc, were copied from a book called The Miracle of Life, which engrossed him as a boy.

Here is what he feels: During the first weeks of his stay in Petersburg Prince Andrei found all the habits of thought he had formed while living in seclusion entirely eclipsed by the petty preoccupations that engrossed him in that city.

When players see him engrossed, they know not to intrude.

TOKYO — In the late 1990s, in the thick of the Asian financial crisis, a top Japanese Finance Ministry official turned to his protégé and found him engrossed not in policy documents, but in a chunky volume of the works of Aristotle.

The challenges science posed for Harrison, then and now, keep him engrossed.

Neither of us are people who can wing it, so I was relieved to have the trip organized and put away, until, a few nights later, reading in bed, I looked over his shoulder to see him engrossed in an article in the New Yorker, "Samba Soccer".

A subject has entirely engrossed them.

Ahalya, engrossed in worship, rejects him, considering it inappropriate to have sex at the cost of neglecting the gods.