all-absorbing

For he has what they have not — purpose, something to do and be done, an all-absorbing end to strive to attain, the desire to kill me, the hope that he may kill me.

Chapter 16

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

Chapter 18

So not just going through the motions, but thinking about them, makes it an all-absorbing exercise.

Adele Scheele: Turning The Same-Old Into Success

So not just going through the motions, but thinking about them, makes it an all-absorbing exercise.

Adele Scheele: Turning The Same-Old Into Success

The hearings, said the Times, were “the all-absorbing topic of comment and debate” throughout Washington.

LAST CALL

Finally, a brilliant all-absorbing novel for the beach, for the woods, the air-conditioned apartment or the city stoop while wearing your iPod is called "A Visit from the Goon Squad," and it's by Jennifer Egan.

Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes

Finally, a brilliant all-absorbing novel for the beach, for the woods, the air-conditioned apartment or the city stoop while wearing your iPod is called "A Visit from the Goon Squad," and it's by Jennifer Egan.

Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes

The hearings, said the Times, were “the all-absorbing topic of comment and debate” throughout Washington.

LAST CALL

It's pretty easy for our sense of wonder to become anesthetized by the routines of everyday life, much less by the all-absorbing dynamics of economic struggle or political combat.

Robert Creamer: Giving Thanks For Laughter, Wonder And The Life Of Michael McLaughlin

"Souter thinks that life on the court is like a lobotomy" is a much better headline than "Souter thinks that life on the court is all-absorbing," so that's the implication a journalist is going to run with.

Justice David Souter describes the Supreme Court term as "sort of annual intellectual lobotomy."