I thought that immersing myself in a month-long writers' retreat would take my mind off what was happening to me.
He meditates; he thinks; he is immersed.
The Latinos, he thinks, are too immersed in their own cultures to make this transition.A long time since the MayflowerBut is "assimilation" merely a matter of adapting to America's "Anglo-Protestant core"?
This cold morning, when I think about Obama, immersed in what must be a decidedly mixed brew of emotions – mixed about his deeds, mixed about his effects on the US, decidedly mixed about our future – I'm confident he is thinking, right to his last minute in the office, as the president, and not much about, or for, himself.
Or so you might think if you immersed yourself in American popular culture.
"If you look at Janicza Bravo's piece, [Hard World for Small Things], she's an independent filmmaker and creative person, but she didn't fully know how to think about being immersed in a VR story.
I thought I might get immersed and lost".
Think of immersing yourself in the colors and textures of a Van Gogh painting, for example, or the scene as you look out at your garden it would seem that one can be phenomenally conscious of a highly complex set of properties, which one could not even begin to describe or conceptualize in any detail.
Think of immersing a dried sponge in water.
He thought about watching it, immersing himself in the tension and glory of the double-overtime victory.
"I think we are incredibly immersed in the electronic scene," Patrick said, "but because of that eclecticism we've sort of evaded being one specific thing.
