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
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
A series of trials, actually, in “J’accuse,” Polanski’s absorbingly detailed account of the Dreyfus affair.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2019
“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
To Miss Savage, in her isolated state, Butler was the whole world; and it is perfectly evident—Mr. Festing Jones need not hesitate so conscientiously in admitting it—that she was absorbingly, unalterably in love with Butler.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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