engross

The goal is to engross fans in the world of their favorite stories, a bet Disney hopes will keep audiences engaged when there is more competition than ever for their attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

This discovery of Orage’s significance in Katherine Mansfield’s life and work matters to scholars, but Ms. Kimber misjudges how much it might engross readers of a biography.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

She looks up and smiles into my lens and then pretends to engross herself in her work.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

But money does not preoccupy Andrew Wyeth, and his whimsies are mostly a cover-up for what engrosses him, the subjects of his work.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is sometimes a bachelor, but more frequently a widower with one daughter, who engrosses all his time and care.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

They became engrossed in conversation, Evans said in the letter, which describes him falling in love during that first meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The whodunnit engrossed Buam-dong and piqued the country's interest, making national headlines.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

For a time, Djokovic was cast as the villain - the disruptor to the Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal rivalry that so engrossed fans.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Like millions worldwide, my family and I have been deeply, and in our case, weirdly, engrossed in this year’s games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The same girl who had been so engrossed in her book by the fountain.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

The authors’ examinations of justice, freedom, authority and other elements of Viking social and political life are similarly engrossing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The safety car confusion was just the final episode in a race that was always engrossing but had ratcheted up several notches in the final 20 laps or so.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

I found my work in the South Side Boys’ Club deeply engrossing.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright