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I ask where his uncommon immersion in his work comes from, and he answers: I suppose its a desire to get it right.
Through our powers of description we can make the reading experience one of total immersion.
Sunbeds (and bright sunshine) are out for a few weeks, as is any long immersion in water (although getting it wet is fine).
But two weeks' immersion , with no semblance of a social life, was enough to get me over this initial hurdle while retaining my sanity.
When Paul Polman became chief executive of the soap-to-ice-cream-maker in 2009 (joining from a Swiss rival, Nestlé), the Dutchman spent a night in Lever's rooftop bed as part of a total immersion in the history of his new firm.
Adobe, a software firm, holds "customer immersion days" where it exposes managers to what customers regard as the most infuriating problems they have to deal with.The rise of the machinesAll this sounds splendid, but there are powerful forces tugging in the other direction.
Believers practise baptism by full immersion , speaking in tongues and divine healing.
It's a nice contrast to the technique of, say, Rosetta Stone, which emphasises total immersion much more than rote grammar.Babbel's interface is clean but still a little buggy.
Allison Nakano, a Master's student at Brandeis International Business School, finds herself in the middle of anti-government protests in Istanbul I WAS recently given the opportunity, alongside 29 fellow students, to take a week-long business and economics immersion trip to Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Details of frostbite cures (immersion in a dead buffalo's stomach) are interesting; less so are passages full of stock Indian wisdom and natives cursing like brothers in the 'hood ("fucking white boy").More troubling are the lessons implied by this cruel cycle of seizure and revenge.
When ordinary mortals are baptised, their sins are said to be washed away; with Jesus the process is reversed, and instead of him receiving blessing from the water, his immersion brings blessing to the whole of material creation.Even for the less theologically-inclined, this is a stirring communal event when a seafaring, island-hopping nation remembers its deep connection with all things aquatic.
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The word "immersion" primarily functions as a noun , denoting the state of being deeply involved or submerged in something. This can refer to physical submersion, as in baptism, or metaphorical submersion, as in a language learning environment. Ludwig examples demonstrate its use across various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
