Bell was sitting rooted to the spot, a picture of total absorption.

For the rest of the afternoon and into the evenmg he worked with total absorption.

The closest ordinary experience which you may have often had is that of total absorption in a good book, or perhaps a film.

She had forgotten, in the total absorption of the last few minutes.

As though his total absorption in profit was its own justification.

"I never had any appreciation for the total absorption," he said.

They played with total absorption, lost in a game of their own devising.

The trap, of course, had been in their total absorption with Rache!

The less guilty were more aware of the judge's total absorption in what was being said.

It has been called by one critic as "a total absorption of content into form".