Sentence examples for utterly absorbed by from inspiring English sources

"I just remember being utterly absorbed by it, and inspired by Atticus, and very taken by Scout," Mr. Brokaw said.

New Age philosophy is the clearest example of a utopian movement utterly absorbed by capitalism, which it once (feebly) opposed.

The son of a fabulously wealthy Yemeni construction magnate, palace builder to the Saudi princes, the world's most notorious terrorist emerges as a strange mixture: vain, humorless, ascetic and utterly absorbed by personal religious ambition.

I was also utterly absorbed by The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Fleet), the nail-biting story of a woman's escape from life as a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

But very soon I was utterly absorbed by this movie's simple storytelling verve and the terrific lead performances from Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone who are both excellent – particularly Stone, who has never been better, her huge doe eyes radiating wit and intelligence when they're not filling with tears.

South Beach is utterly absorbed by beauty, peopled with fashion models and dreamers and others who just like moving about a place where bartenders pose like Grecian statues, cafe hostesses are achingly lovely, and waiters and waitresses sway blank-faced between tables as if on an invisible catwalk -- as if the ghost of Gianni Versace were looking on from a dark corner table.

They spoke little and only occasionally, in short sentences that never became conversation or dialogue, any hint of which died a natural death, interrupted by the attention that the woman was giving to her body, in which she was utterly absorbed, and by the indirect attention that the man, too, was giving to her body, through his camera lens.

On a trip I took to Israel a few weeks ago for The New Yorker, the political philosopher Avishai Margalit told me that Netanyahu was a kind of "mythomaniac," a politician utterly absorbed and guided by his sense of heroic mission, and dismissive of the opinions and analyses of even his closest advisers.

They're all utterly absorbed in what they're doing.

Behind his monitor Fiennes is rocking, stroking his check, utterly absorbed.

These days, it seems, I'm forever navigating around people utterly absorbed in their phones.