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The regard they fixed on his face was baleful in its intentness.
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Some glanced sideways at one another; some listened with a forced intentness.
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With apparent intentness she took out tools; small parts were inspected minutely.
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He himself was eyed as in retort, and with yet greater intentness.
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She had the look of one who listens with almost painful intentness.
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There had been the engrossment of transcendent emotion in repelling the charge.
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Both terms express the engrossment of the self in an object.
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In a moment all the self-engrossment of her bashfulness was gone.
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I was no less touched by Manny's engrossment in the children.
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Absorption, engrossment, full concern with subject matter for its own sake, nurture it.
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The following is the vote, in the SENATE, on the engrossment of the bill:-
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But even so, it passed second reading and went to engrossment and third reading.
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Her engrossment in her own reflection irritated him, so he did not look at her.
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The man was indeed following him with deep engrossment.
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But the front-door bell rang, and something in Miss Ethel's expression did then pierce her self-engrossment.
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The shell of her old self-engrossment cracked, and the call of a wider life came to her.
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To care only for each other is selfishness for two, only one step removed from self-centered engrossment.
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Nature held him aloof, an atom leaving no mark upon it, an intruder on its musing self-engrossment.
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At Eton, in his time, the engrossment with classics was such as to keep out religious instruction!
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And thus both the necessity for engrossment, and the stupid content in the present, produce the same effects.
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Joe's response showed his entire self-engrossment.