absorbing

I speak not of the finicking joy of the gourmet, but the joy of an honest appetite in ecstasy, the elemental joy of absorbing quantities of fresh simple food,--mere roast lamb, new potatoes, and peas of living green.

"What we do is to apply certain substances that have the property of absorbing from white light all the colors except those that we would have our houses appear.

Our conversation during the drive was naturally occupied by the one absorbing subject of local interest.

He commended, however, the author's way of ending his book with the promise of that interminable adventure, and many a time was he tempted to take up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, which no doubt he would have done, and made a successful piece of work of it too, had not greater and more absorbing thoughts prevented him.

Doubtless, the height of the tower, seated as it was on the hill-top, the rushing of the ceaseless wind, the hypnotic effect of the lofty altitude of the speck in the sky at which he gazed, and the rushing of the paper messengers up the string till sight of them was lost in distance, all helped to further affect his brain, undoubtedly giving way under the strain of beliefs and circumstances which were at once stimulating to the imagination, occupative of his mind, and absorbing.

There is no absorbing interest in her mind to divert her thoughts from me.

Dzakumah further explained that as a result of the increasing economic hardship, coupled with high level of poverty in the area, the people were unable to continue with the contributions for the payment of teachers and provide relevant support to the institution, hence, the need for the government to come to their aid by absorbing the school.