all-absorbing

It was absolutely all-absorbing for what seemed like a month.

Their labor was, apparently, all-absorbing; they gave themselves to it completely.

It said that "Football has been the all-absorbing amusement for the past few weeks".

Indeed, the hunt for money is all-absorbing - and often humiliating.

The welfare state is the mother, all right, in her all-absorbing power - "Won't you come to me darling?"

The water was sucked in by the all-absorbing surface.

The work soon became all-absorbing, and Xenia found herself immersed.

Nevertheless, we were drawn forward by an all-absorbing and impatient curiosity.

She bent her brows a little, as though to concentrate on some all-absorbing problem.

And here the conversation branched off on the all-absorbing topic of dress.

With him it was an exciting and all-absorbing pursuit.

Numismatics was his all-absorbing interest from an early age.

Actually, these are but names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are.

Putting out oil well fires is a dirty, miserable, dangerous, all-absorbing business.

All-absorbing narrow interest (at least one of the following)

What begins as a spare time activity can become, if the individual is suitable and the need sufficiently great, an all-absorbing life task.

The all-absorbing problem of camp life is escaping.

To say that a pin might have been heard to fall, would be feebly to express the all-absorbing interest and silence.

Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women.

Children with the syndrome typically exhibit social awkwardness and an all-absorbing interest in specific topics.

The grand ecuyer stood by himself before the fireplace, his arms folded with an air of all-absorbing reflection.

Her love affairs she put on a very different footing and apparently they were the all-absorbing element in her life.

And it is this all-absorbing interest which explains the vast expansion of painting which now occurred.

Meanwhile his taste for collecting books, pictures, and curiosities gradually became an all-absorbing passion.

Self-merge and Birthing were such all-absorbing experiences that one did not, at the time, pay much attention to one's surroundings.