Before crashing on the couch, Mr. Dylan eagerly absorbed some of his host's voluminous knowledge of music, including folk, country and the blues.

Millions of investors, ignorant of financial history, were taught expensive lessons when they eagerly absorbed the new conventional wisdom of the 1990's.

Dylan eagerly absorbed von Schmidt's voluminous knowledge of music, including folk, country and the blues.

Flavia, on the other hand, was eagerly absorbing all the views, glancing all around her, or peering down as they passed over some particularly lovely setting.

Moreover, she instantly became aware of Niall - not, like the moog, as an alien presence, but as a male energy that she absorbed eagerly.

I eagerly absorbed the lessons he had to teach.

Nonetheless, Prendergast comes across as an American original, an artist who eagerly absorbed the latest in French painting without losing his head.

Dirisha listened with half her attention, watching Carlos eagerly absorb the input.

Yet it is she who most eagerly absorbs the lessons of military culture.

It seems unusual that a culture that eagerly absorbs all things American rejects the inherent independence that comes along with them.