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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.
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With him it was an exciting and all-absorbing pursuit.
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So not just going through the motions, but thinking about them, makes it an all-absorbing exercise.
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So not just going through the motions, but thinking about them, makes it an all-absorbing exercise.
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The hearings, said the Times, were “the all-absorbing topic of comment and debate” throughout Washington.
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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.
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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.
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The hearings, said the Times, were “the all-absorbing topic of comment and debate” throughout Washington.
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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
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"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."
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