Sentence examples for was utterly absorbed from inspiring English sources

Friends and acquaintances who knew her then recall a quiet, intense 24-year-old, dressed in bell-bottoms and headbands, who was utterly absorbed in her work.

As I watched Sylvia going about her work, I could see that she was utterly absorbed in it — kneeling to examine a single blade of alga or crawling over rocks to inspect the variety of living things within a small pool.

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.

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.

To start with, I didn't plan on reading the novel (at the time I couldn't read anything) but one day I found myself plucking it – as if at random – off my shelf and from the opening lines ("If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog") I was utterly absorbed.

As I watched Sylvia going about her work, I could see that she was utterly absorbed in it kneeling to examine a single blade of alga or crawling over rocks to inspect the variety of living things within a small pool.

But the series was utterly absorbing from the first morning when Saeed Ajmal stamped his doosra imprint on proceedings.

The most recent episode, about the Freedom of Information Act, was utterly absorbing, and should be required listening for any student of investigative journalism or, indeed, any citizen of the UK.

Prebble's study of love, depression and the limits of neuroscience was over-diagrammatic in places but, in a far-from-dazzling year for new plays, it was utterly absorbing and raised lots of big questions.

Not only could he do it, and very well, but Backley discovered that the pursuit was utterly absorbing, not just physically, but in the way it required such an enormous effort of will.

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