Definition of "engrossing" []

• Occupying one's complete attention; wholly absorbing: listened to an engrossing symphony. (adjective)

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• "The best they could muster in the way of impeachment was the following: “However unwilling Mr. Morris may be to acknowledge the term engrossing or monopolizing, yet as he did not import the cargo, and did, in partnership with Mr. Sollekoff, get the whole into his possession, we are at a loss to find any other name, though the expedition with which he entered on the sale abates the rigorous sense generally applied to these words.”"
• "What makes Forbidden Lie$ engrossing is that Broinowski has gained a remarkable level of cooperation from both Khouri and her detractors."
• "Note to self: The dragon sequence in the Hobbit, though engrossing, is not very practical as a bedtime story ..."