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

I’m not even bringing it up because, thanks to a script by Joe Eszterhas and despite direction by Costa-Gavras, it’s absorbingly abominable.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

Every woman was having a new dress made, or 188 was absorbingly renovating an old one, and every man was sick and tired of hearing about the festivity.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday