The pasta happily absorbed all the liquid, becoming complex, intense and very clammy, a perfect sop without the sopping.
Our 3-year-old daughter sat on Aunt Carolyn's farmhouse porch, happily absorbed in her Rocket pop, blond curls rustling in the Iowa breeze.
And she's very happily absorbed in rehearsals for Giselle, a role she was preparing to dance when injury disrupted her career.
We were optimists, a big, bold S.U.V., Sex-and-the-City society, confident in the security that our geography afforded, flush from the 90's, happily absorbed in the secondary questions of existence.
Both verbal and nonverbal signals are exchanged via the medium of the blissfully oblivious dog, who happily absorbs all the eye contact and friendly greeting and touching that would be regarded as excessively forward and pushy between newly acquainted English.
And so when February rolls around, I happily look and absorb all the information I never learned in any curriculum or from any curator.
Ron Wistrom will watch Grant stretch and warm up and try to get a sense of how he is feeling; Kathy Wistrom will absorb the scene, happily.
There is a sense that you have failed a little, having not come up with some more constructive diversion, such as making a hovercraft out of sticks, or, more fundamentally, not having created a child who will happily do puzzles in absorbed silence for prolonged periods of time.
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