English vocabulary examples in context: absorption
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 1.
His face was turned towards the highway, his back towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are equivalent to four walls.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 2.
A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 3.
Hieratic or mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes missionaries of nations.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 4.
These two streams, which lower down became rivers by the absorption of several tributaries, were formed by all the springs of the mountain and thus caused the fertility of its southern part.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 5.
But it was a great harvest for the innkeeper, as all the operations could not be conducted without a large absorption of liquors drawn from the cellars of the inn.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 6.
It seemed to me that the porter was rather tottery, owing perhaps to a lengthy absorption of vodka.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 7.
An espousal is a dreary absorption of brilliancy.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 8.
There was something in this seemingly transparent and yet deep character, in her childlike gaiety and enjoyment of the society about her, and in her not seldom absorption in herself, that would have made her long remembered there if no events had subsequently occurred to recall her to mind.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 9.
Pierre during the last two years, as a result of his continual absorption in abstract interests and his sincere contempt for all else, had acquired in his wife's circle, which did not interest him, that air of unconcern, indifference, and benevolence toward all, which cannot be acquired artificially and therefore inspires involuntary respect.
Vocabulary in context: absorption -- Example 10.
The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating starwise as it did, only reached the quarter where Pierre was staying by the evening of the second of September.
