(1) Calypso hung her head as if absorbed by the address in her fist.

(2) Jan and Anna remain relatively two-dimensional characters because this novel is an absorbed study of the masculine mind.

(3) She describes her father as similarly absorbed as she was growing up.

(4) Somehow some part of her interacted with the world outside her absorbed mind, giving half comments in reply to Adam, barely aware of his comings and goings.

(5) In the center of the court, Sara unselfconsciously peeled off her street clothes to total, absorbed silence.

(6) The youth, still carrying the regiment's colors, was an absorbed spectator.

(7) Completely absorbed , Rolando glided across the dance floor with her in his arms.

(8) Yet, there are moments when he is completely absorbed .

(9) If I recall, you were kind of absorbed with Mikey.

(10) How could it be any different when Murray is so absorbed by life in control of Rangers?

(11) Fisher took no notice and continued his absorbed interest in what was going on.

(12) The guys had come in earlier to go to bed, but in my absorbed state of mind, the moment seemed to fizzle away into the realms of my mind where factual and fictional seemed to be one and the same.

(13) Frescoes of demons and spirits writhe across the walls of its prayer halls, and the drone of absorbed monks fills dim rooms and corridors.

(14) These mini-martyrs can be absorbedly self-pitying, like prisoners who pay lip service to free living, but their capacity for surrender yields some powerfully fatalistic evaluations of hope.

(15) She immediately dropped her last bag of candy and watched absorbedly as he navigated through the small huddle of people, stretching his shoulders and exchanging small talk with anxious teammates.

(16) Staring absorbedly across the street at the resplendent town estate before him, the lanky cloaked gentleman exhaled a breath of chilly night air.

(17) You find you cannot always depend upon yourself as absorbedly as when you assumed the orchid position, because you are more vulnerable, dependent upon the psychic phenomena that occupy your meditation.

(18) And yes, I had even listened fixedly and absorbedly to the unabashed flavour of the Spanish Gypsy musicians.