The fight engrossed rather than thrilled.
But Andrew Holgate in the Sunday Times didn't quite buy it: "she often becomes so engrossed in her individual cases that the reader loses sight of the overall thesis".
It kept them engrossed for nearly 45 minutes--quite a feat!
LG claims that the G Watch will still connect to a smartphone some 15m away, which gives quite a lot of potential for inadvertently leaving your phone behind somewhere while engrossed by something on your smartwatch.
Either the literature professor sputtered that Watts — a sociologist, physicist and former officer of the Australian Navy — had no idea what he was talking about, and left him standing with a half-empty drink in his hand, or she was quite taken with his unorthodox views and spent the rest of the evening engrossed.
You're not quite sure who he is or what he's up to, but you're instantly engrossed.
I remembered the first game I covered, not quite 21, in 1960, when I sat in the dugout before the game and was engrossed in the zigs and zags of Casey Stengel's conversation — until he told me, "Young feller, you're going to have to leave now because otherwise I'll have to put you in the starting lineup".
You know, the world could never be quite the same again after Jacob Shallus, a trustworthy and dependable clerk of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, took his pen and engrossed those words about representative government in the Preamble of our Constitution.
As a result, when the story takes a more harrowing turn, I never quite believed that life and death were truly at stake, for either Mitchell or New York, and didn't find myself as engrossed by Elsa's fate or the frisson with Jane as Rich asks us to be.
Everyone in our group was so engrossed in his story, that no one, except for me, noticed the Japanese tourist and his family who walked quite near to us.
