engross
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The chief exception: the Getty, where its Brentwood anchor and Pacific Palisades outpost accounted for three of the 10 most engrossing museum exhibitions in 2025, all 10 presented here in order of their opening dates.
From Los Angeles Times
Scott Eyman faces a triple challenge in his richly engrossing biography “Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face.”
Anthony Gottlieb sums him up in an engrossing biography, “Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes,” writing that “his charismatic gift was to be halting, self-deprecating and imperious all at the same time.”
Mr. Steele is also engrossed by the meltdown at the Heritage Foundation.
So it feels fitting the pair's battle for supremacy in 2025 - like all engrossing stories - will have a gripping final chapter.
From BBC
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