Sentence examples for that absorbed him from inspiring English sources

The myth that absorbed him most fully was the myth in the making of Paul Gauguin.

"I don't want to sound like Johnny English," he says, but it was clearly a world that absorbed him.

Snyder's most complex and difficult work is "Mountains and Rivers Without End," a poem cycle that absorbed him from 1956 until 1996, and whose title is taken from a category of Chinese landscape painting.

He took geologic samples and made observations about the terrain and the animals and the weather, too; in other words, his reason for exposing himself to such hardship and risk was to advance what was known about the part of the world that absorbed him.

Voltaire called Montaigne one of history's wise men, but when it came to the big philosophical questions that absorbed him — the nature of justice, say, or morality — he seemed to be saying, like Sextus, that there may be no truths, only moments of clarity, passing for answers.

He says it is still the big-picture political issues that absorb him.

It is an illusion that absorbs him beyond happiness; in other words, he is playing.

As always, Mr. Cho's clothes answer some design question that absorb him exclusively, and with perfect craftsmanship.

The themes that absorb him above all others are eros and God; or the mysteries of women and death.

So lords, monarchs and great institutions of state are not of interest; while Ackroyd recognizes that Britain is run from London, it is the life of the streets that absorbs him.

And, for Orso, the conclusion of the competition that has absorbed him since he was born.