engross

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

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

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

Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

The passion of glory, if you will, engrosses him too entirely for our repose; but glory, at least, inspires nothing which is vile.

From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

“Having a parent that wasn’t overly engrossed in my winning and losing was the healthiest thing,” Austin says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Police and safety groups once warned players not to become so engrossed in catching the next Psyduck that they got lost or put themselves in danger.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Another former judge told me he was concerned about cameras for the first 30 seconds after they were turned on, but then he became engrossed in the case and forgot about being recorded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

Moss turned around, and sure enough, Larry Jackson was engrossed in something on his phone, oblivious to the fact that he had just made a cardinal error in Mrs. Torrance’s class.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

It was a match so engrossing it delayed the BBC News at 10.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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

But in “Two Ships,” an engrossing intellectual history, David S. Reynolds sheds light on a cultural collision that shaped early America up to the Civil War and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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

It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey