engross

Dance, writes Ms. Footer, “began to engross him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

And I wanted to engross the actors and the audience in what she’s saying and feeling, so we can be there with her and feel it too.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

Whatever their inspirations, Neuman’s pictures are visual machines that both engross and propel the viewer’s eye.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

Narratives of injury engross us because they point to tangible harms — blindings and burns and broken bones.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

He could engross himself in an inconsequential task for hours without growing restless or bored, as oblivious to fatigue as the stump of a tree, and almost as taciturn.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

It engrosses two floors of the Breuer with art of total mastery that also, at every turn, casts doubt on its own achievement.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2020

But the nuclear family more urgently tugging on Caroline’s apron and heart strings — her children and friends — is the one that on this occasion engrosses an audience most satisfyingly.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2017

It engrosses, it stuns, it distracts, and it overwhelms.

From The New Yorker ● May 18, 2015

And as a movie, A.I. engrosses without quite enthralling.

From Time Magazine Archive

This thought so engrosses him, as he walks along, that he fails to hear Mrs. Branscombe, until she is close beside him, and until she says, gently,— "How d'ye do, Sir James?"

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

It was a day the 15,000 home fans on Centre Court, thousands more on Henman Hill - sorry, Arthur's Seat - and those engrossed across the country will never forget.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Receiving Chiarella’s “Leviticus” script while in Sydney on a bus to Bondi Beach, he became so engrossed in reading it he promptly missed his stop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

We caught a young plastic toy vendor, engrossed on his phone, sitting on a concrete pillar that recorded 56.9C.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

In February 1924, the iconic engrossed parchment of the Declaration of Independence was installed for public display at the Library of Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He was fiddling with an old radio and was so engrossed in his work that he didn’t notice Bo creeping up on him.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

Beyond a purely aesthetic consideration, the exhibition is an engrossing seminar on every aspect of tarot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

That engrossing yourself in every meticulous step — from measuring out your own leavening agents to bringing your butter and eggs to room temperature — is what qualifies as real baking.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured childhood with an admirable, engrossing new adaptation of William Golding’s much-taught novel of boy castaways, “The Lord of the Flies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Lori Inglis Hall delivers, in Malcolm Forbes’s words, “an engrossing novel whose twin tales have emotional depth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Debussy, along with twenty-eight million other visitors, spent an engrossing time wandering around the exotic installations from distant continents.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall