But he had given up asking Emily to marry him and seemed wholly absorbed in his profession.

I am not yet sure that which we knew as Nimir has been wholly absorbed in what sent him forth.

His face was grave and solemn, wholly absorbed in the music.

My mind, during the journey, was wholly absorbed in tender regret.

A large man with battered features like a boxer who was wholly absorbed in his work.

The artificial material was almost wholly absorbed by new cell growth.

Nolan himself was wholly absorbed by the business in hand.

He seemed wholly absorbed by this exotic woman standing before him.

They were wholly absorbed in studying their new leader.

He said the public system, which provides half of the city's ambulatory care, is much too large to be wholly absorbed by the private sector.