I had been immersed in studying the structure of the atmosphere as forms, cyclically recurring topologies.
"We are immersed in studying Mesopotamia, and this is a fundamental thing that we don't understand well enough".
Tanhum wanted to be active in a number of areas like his prospective father-in-law but he was always immersed in study.
With spectacles perched on the bridge of his nose, his hair a spiky, unkempt tangle, he thumbs through a sheaf of yellow pages on a stand before him, immersed in study.
Determined that her first-born son should get ahead in the world, she changed the family name from the Scottish "Milne" to the more English-sounding "Mill," and kept young James away from other children, demanding that he spend most of his waking hours immersed in study.
From that point forward, King David spent every Shabbat immersed in study, since the angel of death cannot approach one who is studying Torah.
Almost a year later, racking up endless hours at the yoga studio immersed in study and instruction, I graduated from yoga teacher training.
"They are so relieved to see that there are girls in their teens and women in their twenties and thirties totally immersed in studying the dharma, leading disciplined lives based on abstinence, who are happy.
When "The Music of Regret" was being made, Lena was at Oberlin, immersed in film studies.
In conversation, she is good-humored and confidential, with the optimistic affect of someone immersed in stimulating studies.
