absorbing
adjective
ab·sorb·ing
əb-ˈsȯr-biŋ 
-ˈzȯr-
: fully taking one's attention : engrossing
an absorbing novel
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shell collecting can be so absorbing that you don't notice the tide coming in
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Even with all its disasters, from pacing to Sting, Lynch’s 1984 journey to Dune remains an absorbing and enlightening spectacle of potential.
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Jill Krajewski, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
Nearly 15 years later, in the absorbing, picaresque Godwin (Pantheon) O’Neill has taken another sport as his subject–soccer–and used it to study brotherhood, migration, and a kind of late-capitalist striving that lends his storytelling a tint of desperation.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 18 July 2024
As two women who walked the same campus paths that Jennifer had 15 years earlier, Thomas and Butler felt compelled to share Jennifer’s tragic story through exclusive interviews and transcripts from family, friends, and detectives—and their work is utterly absorbing.
—Clarissa Schmidt, Vogue, 17 July 2024
But its strongest moments, and the most absorbing ones, are the show’s brief portraits of the friends and family around its central figure.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2024
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Jill Krajewski, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
Nearly 15 years later, in the absorbing, picaresque Godwin (Pantheon) O’Neill has taken another sport as his subject–soccer–and used it to study brotherhood, migration, and a kind of late-capitalist striving that lends his storytelling a tint of desperation.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 18 July 2024
As two women who walked the same campus paths that Jennifer had 15 years earlier, Thomas and Butler felt compelled to share Jennifer’s tragic story through exclusive interviews and transcripts from family, friends, and detectives—and their work is utterly absorbing.
—Clarissa Schmidt, Vogue, 17 July 2024
But its strongest moments, and the most absorbing ones, are the show’s brief portraits of the friends and family around its central figure.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2024
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“Absorbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absorbing. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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