absorbingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The process of political cartooning, absorbingly detailed in Banowsky’s film, is a multi-faceted procedure that requires the artist to be not only present — sorry, Marina Abramović! — but multiple steps ahead.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025
And so she lingers, absorbingly, over the sight of a woman pressing a newborn into her sister’s arms.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023
On another, these shifts in time provide an absorbingly suspenseful experience for the viewer, especially in the last few episodes.
From The Verge • Nov. 5, 2021
“Everybody Knows” is an impressive piece of cultural ventriloquism, a dynamic narrative engine, 132 minutes absorbingly spent; but it lacks the essential magic of Farhadi’s Iranian productions.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019
I cannot so much as touch on the absorbingly interesting questions of the Hopi spiritual and religious life, and of the amount of deference that can properly be paid to one side of this life.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore
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