All 8 Uses of
engrossed
in
The House of Mirth
- Something in his attitude of conscious absorption told her that he was aware of her presence: no one had ever been quite so engrossed in an evening paper!†
Chpt 1.2 *
- She was too self-engrossed to penetrate the recesses of his shyness, and besides, why should she care to give herself the trouble?†
Chpt 1.3
- They were not as brutal and self-engrossed as she had fancied—or rather, since it would no longer be necessary to flatter and humour them, that side of their nature became less conspicuous.†
Chpt 1.4
- Dorset was as difficult to amuse as a savage; but even his self-engrossment was not proof against Lily's arts, or rather these were especially adapted to soothe an uneasy egoism.†
Chpt 1.12
- He had reason to think that his three months of engrossing professional work, following on the sharp shock of his disillusionment, had cleared his mind of its sentimental vapours.†
Chpt 2.1
- She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs.†
Chpt 2.3
- Here were Dorset and his wife once more presenting their customary faces to the world, she engrossed in establishing her relation with an intensely new gown, he shrinking with dyspeptic dread from the multiplied solicitations of the MENU.†
Chpt 2.3
- But the sallow preoccupied women, with their bags and note-books and rolls of music, were all engrossed in their own affairs, and even those who sat by themselves were busy running over proof-sheets or devouring magazines between their hurried gulps of tea.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(engrossed as in: engrossed in the book) with all attention focused