From prudence, natural inclination, and engrossment in other pursuits, Parmentier took no part in the political storm then raging. |
They were eyes that, for all their seeming of a theorist's engrossment, missed little. |
Her engrossment in her own reflection irritated him, so he did not look at her. |
There had been the engrossment of transcendent emotion in repelling the charge. |
If you provide me with an engrossment, I will forward it to my clients for execution. |
Rather, as these four phases of interest map onto the phases of engrossment and reflection, interest is an expression of many-sidedness, namely its activity in the world. |