But, even allowing for this obsession, the election campaign that ended on Friday, which has held the country in thrall for nearly a year, has been unusually absorbing.
Alexandra Iosifidi was another statuesque Myrtha but entirely compelling: the multifaceted nature of her dances — enigmatic, poignant, devout, intense, heroic — was unusually absorbing.
Because of Australia's great size and its relatively small population, transport has always been costly and has absorbed an unusually high proportion of the workforce.
Zukofsky's life was unusually directed toward the poem that was unusually open to absorbing it; you cannot talk about Zukofsky the man without talking about the poem that collected, to an extent few writers have ever attempted, the history of one person's perception of experience, from Bach to Watts, from Spinoza to Kennedy.
Fans hold that this amounts to work that is unusually rich and absorbing.
Kearny Mesa also had an unusually poor first quarter, absorbing only 13,000 square feet, but Pat Rohan of Grubb & Ellis sees this as an aberration, with absorption of as much as 250,000 square feet expected in the next quarter alone.
Although other foods also contain arsenic, rice is unusually efficient at absorbing this element from soil; it can absorb up to 10 times more arsenic than other crops, such as wheat.
The 3-D is unusually graceful — your gaze is absorbed rather than assaulted — and you are pulled into a world of lovely and disconcerting strangeness with plenty of time to puzzle over the behavior of its inhabitants.
If not removed, the rain, which seems to have been unusually abundant in recent years, is absorbed by the unexcavated sections of the site.
Anne was an unusually educated and intellectual woman for her time, and was keenly absorbed and engaged with the ideas of the Protestant Reformers, though the extent to which she herself was a committed Protestant is much debated.
Dragline silk can absorb an unusually large amount of energy before breaking.
