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
Without Peggy—or prospective Peggy—the day's work, which had been a series of absorbingly interesting enterprises, was now a monotonous round.
From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian
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