Sentence examples for engrossing to read from inspiring English sources

Despite Kushner's immense talents, what she has not achieved in this book is the incarnation of her ideas in character and world that make novels so engrossing to read – and so very hard to write.

It's a wonderful book, engrossing to read, and it raises the question of the relation between the work and the man in its starkest form: how can a writer who is monstrously inhumane to the people closest to him endow his characters with such humanity?

I decided to read the original, rather than the accompanying typescript, and it made me curious about the Declaration's "engrosser," as such copyists were called in the eighteenth century.

Meticulous research into the Magic Circle and bold recreations of historical characters such as Houdini make for an engrossing, absorbing read.

The glossary is well written and instructive while the graphics, the spacious design and the matt velvety finish to the paper are instantly pleasing – an engrossing read.

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.

Scholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read.

The consequence of that decision is part of what makes "Phantom" engrossing to the end.

But is chant as engrossing to hear as it is to sing?

Engrossing to some, gross to others, Shanghai's street markets are an unforgettable adventure.

TV Fanatic's Matt Richenthal found the whole thing "engrossing to watch," but suspects that Tara may not need the gun.