In research at Harvard, students who were identified as being easily engrossed in thoughts and images were trained in muscle relaxation and then asked to visualize certain specific images.
As for the portrait of Dr. King, it seems to have been based on a photograph by Bob Fitch that shows him with crossed arms, engrossed in thought.
In "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird," the expression in Kahlo's eyes can seem, in flickering alternation, to challenge the viewer or to lose focus, as if engrossed in thought.
Instead, she found herself engrossed in--and mastering--the subject.
She'd get so engrossed in her thoughts at times that she'd forget to eat, and she was as thin as one of those war orphans in an old Italian movielike a stick with eyes.
Another showed a girl so engrossed in Seventeen while skiing down a hill that she doesn't realize she's heading for a tree.
But don't get too engrossed in them while you wait in line, lest you accidentally bump into someone and spoil your Where's the Pixel score.
For years, I'd been getting engrossed in enormous books while the house, the van, the very fabric of our lives kept disintegrating.
A woman I knew found me engrossed in a paperback while seated at a café table on Telegraph Avenue.
This effect may be due to the interruption of maladaptive cognitive-affective processing cycles, which serves to 'inoculate' vulnerable individuals from becoming engrossed in ED-related thoughts and feelings, thus allowing for alternative and less dysfunctional responses.
In 1995, while commuting from Camden, he began teaching at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
