Every Royal Variety Performance, I shouldn't wonder, though the engrossing concluding part of The Story of Variety with Michael Grade had a clip of Prince Charles at the Palladium looking as if he was genuinely enjoying himself.
Much of Michelle Huneven's second novel (her first was "Round Rock") meets these criteria; offbeat and vigorously written, it is engrossing in part because it wears its preoccupation with the paranormal so lightly.
In one engrossing piece, a man, standing, embraces a woman from behind, his hands multiplied into a dozen that alight, as if simultaneously, on her every body part, hers responding like reverberating echoes.
Movies may engross viewers, in part, by synchronizing them to its fractal patterns.
Ultimately, of course, this is part of what makes big, engrossing novels so engrossing.
That work had its premiere at Bard last month as "September2017/\," and now a related version comes to the Kitchen this week as "October2017/\." As with much of Ms. Michelson's work, it promises to be equal parts impenetrable and completely engrossing.
The consequence of that decision is part of what makes "Phantom" engrossing to the end.
Part of what makes the video strangely engrossing is the wicked sense of humor that Haley brings to a subject that most people wouldn't find funny.
Part of what makes this documentary so engrossing is how seductively it spotlights not only the draw of the superstar himself but the way in which his entire selfhood was warped by post-racial hooey.
The museum function is completely dominant and engrossing.
