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Even at the foot of the steps they could feel the heat it was absorbing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
For several days he plodded that way, aimlessly searching for nothing, in no hurry, a minuscule curious specter inching around in that peaceful winter country, absorbing something, taking it in—indelibly—for all time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Father MacPhail sat without moving a muscle, his lizard dæmon absorbing and remembering every word. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
I am still absorbing how easily the facts flowed out of me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
By the time he exits the bathroom—after loading it down with “odor-absorbing” air freshener that doesn’t seem to be absorbing anything—G’ma’s back inside and decked out in her camo gear. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z
He was a mediocre student who had a facility for absorbing details without curiosity. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
I stay in my seat for a few seconds, absorbing the sting of her words. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
The anxieties about the situation in France that had been absorbing the country had for the moment dissipated in the afternoon’s sunshine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
The wood seemed especially dark and rich, as if it had been absorbing coffee for the last fifty years. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
Yet for a long time the pig had led a charmed life, nonchalantly absorbing high-powered lead lumps in its thick haunches, or else—it being also a rather swift pig—escaping on the run unscathed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mother just shakes her head, absorbing everything. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z
“Yes, Mother, I’m sure of that,” said Meg, listening respectfully to the little lecture, for the best of women will hold forth upon the all absorbing subject of house keeping. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was new to both of them—this nearness that mingles breath and warmth—and they shared the sensation that they were absorbing each other, melting together in an exquisite crucible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
In technical terms, the albedo of the moon is .07, which means that it bounces back only 7 percent of the light striking it, absorbing the other 93 percent. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
In uncut forest, the canopy intercepts precipitation, absorbing the physical impact of its fall from the clouds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
The clays have a complex active surface, given to absorbing and releasing gases and to catalyzing chemical reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Jane’s curiosity did not appear of that absorbing nature as wholly to occupy her. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z
That morning of October 5, absorbing the impact of the initial headlines, Christine experienced a mix of emotions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
When he looks at us, his eyes linger on our faces as if absorbing every single detail so he will not forget. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The moon appeared early, absorbing the lingering light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
It’s quiet, absorbing work that helps take my mind off my troubles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
They learn the value of education by absorbing the laws and traditions of the tribe. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
He felt that this motionless listener was absorbing his confession as a tree absorbs the rain, that this motionless man was the river itself, that he was God Himself, that he was eternity itself. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
Devine closed his eyes, trying to remember why it was so important to keep growing, building, expanding and absorbing and accumulating things and power and making money, and making more money on top of that. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
His pupils had dilated in the lamplight, absorbing the hazel of the iris. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Four more years in the White House meant four more years of being out front as symbols, absorbing and responding to whatever came our country’s way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
He was looking at her, as though absorbing her details, memorizing her, for when he would tell the story of their meeting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Everything seemed to be slipping away from me and I could find no quick absorbing action that would get it under control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
To classmates, he seemed obsessed with absorbing information and new ideas. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
For many long minutes, he said nothing, his eyes downcast, as though absorbing the story. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
As Mama tossed the lettuce in, the green leaves wilted immediately, absorbing the liquid and the flavor. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
I took my time, absorbing the things Miss Sadie couldn’t bring herself to tell me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
He doesn’t seem to be absorbing my words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
I stare blankly at her, absorbing her words, showing no feeling while my hate for her grows stronger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the next eight hours, I run after the agile Gail, absorbing bits of instruction along with fragments of personal tragedy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
North Vietnam’s strategy was to keep fighting, to keep absorbing punishment, until the American public tired of war and demanded the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
Their publication of new discoveries had been halted during the war, but they had not stopped thinking—or absorbing the knowledge gained from work on the physics of the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
But naturally occurring uranium also contained U-235, which was much more fissile—highly likely to split after absorbing a neutron of almost any speed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Between the long lines of high bookshelves, Harry could see that their heads were close together and they were having what looked like an absorbing conversation. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Her makeup was absorbing the lighting in a fascinating way, which made her look almost ultraviolet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Berlioz never flinched from reminding whoever would listen of his great troubles and adversities, nor from absorbing those torments in his music, much of which is richly rewarding to listen to. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
She put on the radio and, for the girls, started a Disney movie, which showed on monitors that attached to the back of the front seats, absorbing Stephanie and Cassidy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Granddaddy said, “I find that actually reading the book is a much more effective way of absorbing it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
We read some more and it was the most glorious, absorbing thing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband and at Jordan who had begun to balance an invisible but absorbing object on the tip of her chin. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
She blew through special machines, had a blood sample taken to measure her capacity for absorbing oxygen, and underwent a chest exam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
He poured intelligent questions into me and kept his face close, absorbing my attention, encouraging me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I seemed to have a knack for it above and beyond my natural penchant for absorbing knowledge, so there was never too long a wait. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Since Bobby was such a sponge in absorbing the intricacies of chess, Nigro tried to foster in him an interest in music. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I stare at the screen, absorbing word by word a sliver of my life that changed everything. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z
The wet brain matter slowed the ball’s speed, absorbing enough of its energy to prevent it from exiting the other side of the skull through the president’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly contaminate our world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Most of my time since the secret hazmat operation has been spent vicariously absorbing Cabo through my class mates’ Instagram Stories. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
She was like a sponge, absorbing what I couldn’t hold anymore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
For a moment he was absolutely still, absorbing the house’s vibrations. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
There's plenty of condensation on the walls and domed roof, and the soil is certainly absorbing its fair share. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
In that case the absorbing matter might not have heated up yet or the light from distant stars might not yet have reached us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ugwu wanted to learn these things, so he nurtured his friendship with both men; he had become their sponge, absorbing much and giving little away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Even Amaranta, lying in a wicker basket, observed with curiosity the absorbing work of her father and her brother in the small room where the air was rarefied by mercury vapors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
Those 'great' butlers like Mr Marshall who have it, I am sure, acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
He felt as though he were absorbing it, or it was absorbing him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
They worked all day, and all day he was filled with an intense, absorbing happiness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had provided for himself and could feel his body absorbing the food he had eaten. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
Elizebeth also made time for another absorbing pursuit—writing a book. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
I find the place with no trouble, delighted that the city and my map are in such perfect agreement, and spend an hour with one of my hosts absorbing cockatiel technology. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Instinctively she tucked and rolled, absorbing most of the impact as she hit the stone floor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
I didn’t answer, because right then Nyame strode forward, his golden robes absorbing the light and scattering it across the beach like a million pieces of glass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Periodically Kamen would withdraw a probe and chip off the irradiated Aquadag, trying not to think about the exposure he might be absorbing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Instead she put one foot in front of the other, her sneakers crunching the snow, her socks absorbing the wet and cold and transmitting it up her legs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
I am running out of space—the platform is ending—I seize the handle and swing myself in, my muscles absorbing the pull forward. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
As always, Barack was absorbing every bit of news carefully, going about his regular business while quietly developing his own thoughts about it all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
They sit quietly, absorbing his story, and then flood him with questions. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
There always existed King’s College, opulently nonconformist and clearly capable of absorbing him without any loss of his or its character. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
Nigro noted with proud amusement that his protégé was watching carefully and absorbing everything he could. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The robot felt her body absorbing the sun’s energy. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
A jolt of excitement runs through me at the sight, and I scan the columns, analyzing and absorbing as much as I can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
While the Islamic world was spreading and absorbing new knowledge, enjoying the taste of sugar, Europe had gone the opposite way: isolation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
As Gay chattered about the events we would attend, I shut her out and concentrated on absorbing every minute. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Vincent learns very quickly, absorbing more and more about art every day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
So I was not faced with the prospect of absorbing chemistry until I went to Copenhagen to do my postdoctoral research with the biochemist Herman Kalckar. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
Students respond one measure later while continually absorbing the pattern currently being performed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
The first time she took the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan, her palms sweaty, she walked the streets, watching, absorbing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Jules touched it with the tip of her finger, absorbing the sound into her skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
He was an astonishing student, absorbing everything in the books, then looking past them for things his teachers didn’t know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
And so his love for Lotus was not whole and perfect as it had been before, absorbing utterly his mind and his body. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
I brace myself, and we hit the level concrete, the shocks absorbing most of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
Reviewing the Adelaide production this month, the national newspaper the Australian hailed "Marilyn Forever" as "whimsical, surreal and musically absorbing … an undeniable highlight of this year's Adelaide festival." 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z
They’re absorbing fake news, but they don’t see it as a problem. Perspective | This was the week America lost the war on misinformation 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z
It’s a fun and easily absorbing thriller wrapped inside a cautionary tale about indulging in nostalgia — and best of all, it has a definite and emotionally satisfying conclusion. What Hulu’s absorbing ‘11/22/63’ tells us of the harm of dwelling in the past 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z
Fine met Boulanger when she visited Cambridge, Mass., in 1939 and followed her back to France to study in her composition class, absorbing rigorous lessons in counterpoint and harmony and engaging with Stravinsky’s music. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z
It is, above all, a work of absorbing theater, which uses the immediacy of that art to conjure the paradoxes and confusions of a world dealing with an unprecedented flux of uprooted lives. ‘The Jungle’ Review: Migrants’ Heartbreaking Search for Home in Calais 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z
It's an absorbing read for anyone who likes strong characters and plot within a fascinating framework of recent history. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z
In Ohlson's case, it arrived from fully absorbing color precedents like Matisse, Rothko and Barnett Newman, plus the structural finesse of Franz Kline. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z
“Her tunnel vision is so extreme that she’s not absorbing anything around her,” Goldberg said. On ‘Barry,’ Sarah Goldberg Has Learned to Love TV 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z
It’s not about immersion, or surrendering oneself to the absorbing scale of the cinematic experience. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z
Santa Cruz embraced the taunt of “black!” — absorbing the word into her skin and transforming it into a shout of liberation. 'Radical Women' at the Hammer Museum is a startling show you need to see, maybe twice 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z
The hospitals refuse to turn people away, absorbing the cost of providing free care and recouping it by charging everyone else more. Unearthed Raymond Chandler Story Rebukes U.S. Health Care System 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z
There, he began life anew by absorbing the discoveries of cubism in organising pictorial space to dispel the leftover space of his early work. Bram Bogart obituary 2012-05-23T17:20:24Z
Going into Evain’s “Mary Sidney, Alias Shakespeare,” an absorbing staged conference presented at the Théâtre de l’Épée de Bois, in the suburbs of Paris, I expected little more than a pleasantly quirky intellectual exercise. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z
With such a lovely pairing to kick the proceedings into amorous gear, all the rest flows with an absorbing grace and urgency. Signature’s ‘West Side Story’: It’s not just any night 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z
Meanwhile, articles about self-identified “deplorables” exacted an opportunity cost, as readers invested time in absorbing them and journalists left other stories unwritten. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z
But “Under the Sun” will be absorbing and essential to Chatwin’s devotees. The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z
As an example, Mr. Hayes spoke of “The Cineaste,” a 2013 book by Mr. Jordan that’s part verse, part film criticism, with the poet absorbing and analyzing films he has watched over the years. The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z
Ms. Van Patten, in the second movement, is absorbingly suffused by emotion. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z
Besides, she argues, the Chinese garden will be so large and absorbing that visitors will forget about its wider setting. China wants a bold presence in Washington — so it’s building a $100 million garden 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z
Number games and logic puzzles are embedded throughout, offering something distinctive in an absorbing summer read. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Ernest Hemingway to the Baby-Sitters Club 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z
Overseers dragged families apart as despairing mothers clutched their children and threw themselves on the ground, absorbing the blows raining on their backs. A History of Modernity That Puts Africa at Center Stage 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z
At heart, though, Paul sounds like anyone whose idea of a perfect afternoon is a comfy chair and an absorbing novel. Pamela Paul’s memoir ‘My Life with Bob’ is a love letter to books 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z
Like tofu, this vegetable is essentially a sponge, effortlessly absorbing flavors. Do you actually need to salt eggplant in advance? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z
In one of the more absorbing sections, an actor draws a shower curtain around one or two audience members and pleads: “Make meaning with me. Make meaning with me.” Review: ‘I’m Bleeding All Over the Place’ Explores a Psyche (Don’t Get Hurt) 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z
This year's "Destroyer of the Void" is not as absorbing or defining. Blitzen Trapper: Portland sextet plays City Arts Festival 2010-10-21T20:24:00Z
Their relationship is at the center of “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian,” Arnaud Desplechin’s ruminative, gentle and absorbing new film. Movie Review: ‘Jimmy P.’ Recounts a Case Study of a Noble Soul in Torment 2014-02-13T23:39:27Z
A declamatory and virtuosic cadence by Mr. Dicterow led into a muted passage that was utterly absorbing in its balance of stillness and suspense. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z
Early on, Obama spoke of his years at Occidental, "seen and viewed and understood as a black man in America, what does that mean? I'm absorbing all kinds of stereotypes and ideas from society." Just a chat with your friendly neighborhood president 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z
This is an absorbing and autumnal novel set in a place — the academy — and about a game — baseball — that have both been written to death. 'The Art of Fielding': Win, lose, improvise 2011-09-21T22:59:04Z
“It is the distilled effort of a lifetime spent in absorbing, reading, writing and observing.” In ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj,’ a Warning Against Hindu Nationalism 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z
No, it wasn’t the 98-yard dash to victory that this AMC show so desperately needed, but Sunday’s episode of “The Killing” was still surprising, absorbing TV. “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z
The film is limited by its central metaphor, but it is never less than absorbing or original. Review: A Man Confronts a Mountain in ‘Monte’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z
The book retraces ground familiar to anyone who has been following coverage of the Republican nomination race, but it pulls together lots of details into a narrative that’s absorbing and fair-minded. Books of The Times: ?The Real Romney,? by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman ? Review 2012-01-16T20:12:57Z
Pennebaker’s absorbing film of the making of “Company’s” original cast album, then you have clear documentary evidence of this. Elaine Stritch: There was nothing like this dame
And the fine last poem in this absorbing collection, "The Key", unlocks more even than it intends. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-24T10:00:01Z
As the cells cool, they constrict, absorbing the acidity and flavor deep into their walls. Chef Abra Berens’ summer squash epiphany: Fall in love with the season's underappreciated produce 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z
Now, Iles returns with “Cemetery Road,” an ambitious stand-alone thriller that, like its predecessors, is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption in a small Southern community. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z
They are no longer young, but they have experience, and they are exactly what this delightful and absorbing drama requires. Television Review: Like Old Times, Almost, In an English Household 2011-04-07T22:20:14Z
For me one of the pleasures of going to see a show has always been absorbing the feeling of a theater hallowed by the history made there. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design 2010-12-09T18:21:00Z
The heroes of this book, whom Mr. Elie discusses in absorbing detail, are towering modern interpreters of Bach. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z
Those same industrial materials break up the mass of the building on the outside, by turns refracting and absorbing sunlight, nudging upward, gently, the scale of a swiftly growing neighborhood. Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z
The most absorbing part of “Hush” is about tinnitus, an insistent ringing that is familiar to many who still feel the after-effects of a loud concert the morning after. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z
As Trump got more serious about his presidential run, he began absorbing Dobbs’s thoughts on China and immigration. Hard-line views made Lou Dobbs a Fox powerhouse. Now he’s shaping Trump’s border policy. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
But it serves as a nice illustration of the way the viewpoint of the present reconstructs the past, which is the paramount subject matter of this intricate and absorbing novel. Wartime Acts, Postwar Retribution: A Mother’s Risky Legacy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z
In his review for The New York Times, Ben Kenigsberg wrote, “Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trinkets’ and ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z
It was as if King were the “sorry” lover, sitting there and absorbing the women’s stories. ‘Told It Like It Was’: Ntozake Shange’s Tales of Black Womanhood 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z
BPM is an absorbing and moving film by any measure, but it’s as a specifically queer reclamation of much-tilled factual territory that it feels most bracing and vital. French Aids drama BPM shows Hollywood how to capture gay history 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z
Increasing the amount of organic matter can help the soil hold more water — "like a sponge, absorbing more of it and releasing it slowly" — as can mulching. Small farmers in New England are starting to rebuild, but climate extremes are here to stay 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z
Fight for the rights of every man! — and young David stood there, still as a statue, absorbing everything. David the Goliath gets what he wants 2011-03-22T21:55:00Z
A team from Nashville offers a snack bar that blocks your body from absorbing fat while you eat it. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and ‘Shark Tank’ 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z
But still, “Landfall” is smart and knowing and absorbing. A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z
Its lack of pretense was absorbing; this is a ballet full of artful shadows that wash over the stage with ever-evolving shapes — twisting, curving, bending — seemingly inspired by the natural world. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z
The drama — which plays out in the director’s customary style, controlled and absorbing, without a single wasted shot or gesture — hinges on a planned defection. Film: At Berlinale, Something for Everyone 2012-02-17T17:13:20Z
Each arrangement was a gradual envelopment, absorbing and blending one instrument after another, cushioning percussive or distorted sounds amid sustained ones. Music Review: The National at Radio City Music Hall 2010-06-17T22:16:00Z
That fits all too neatly into the family history outlined in an absorbing and moving book. Lost in translation 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
We were still living 9/11 when you were absorbing it. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z
We are absorbing the fear and distress of our patients while trying to contain our own. My mental health ward is not equipped for coronavirus. We feel like sitting ducks 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z
By contrast, if Asian artists showed signs of absorbing Western models, their work was disdained as derivative, inauthentic and evidence that Western Modernism was the only true one, the source that supplied the world. V. S. Gaitonde Retrospective at the Guggenheim 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z
It's all out there in the cultures we're absorbing and taking in, being here in America. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z
We have a rule against sending correspondence, but Allegra has written letters— The poet nodded and was quiet for a minute, absorbing the visit. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z
But even when it’s boring, it’s absorbing, like an art video playing in the lobby of a boutique hotel. Review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ a Window Into Upscale Transactional Sex 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z
Watch enough “Red Table Talk” after reading Will’s book and absorbing his YouTube series and you might encounter the same tale told a few different ways — he’s been workshopping this unburdening for some time. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z
It also illustrates what’s best about this earnest and absorbing dramatization of America’s bloodiest war: It reminds us that the terrible statistics of slaughter consisted of individuals, men with homes, histories, sweethearts, families. Theater Review: ‘The Civil War,’ From Theatreworks USA, at Lucille Lortel 2013-07-21T22:12:08Z
But his play is absorbing when he lets his material go to darker places. Theater Review: ‘Harbor,’ Chad Beguelin’s Comedy, at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-08T22:13:00Z
MJ In a customarily absorbing edition of Horizon, the ways in which vast swathes of the planet's accumulated data are being used is laid bare. TV highlights 04/04/2013 2013-04-04T06:00:14Z
She’s always been a malleable singer, osmotically absorbing whatever style and attitude she was presented with. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z
Carmichael’s story, as you might guess from those details, is as tricky to tell as it is absorbing. ‘The Lady and the Dale’ Review: The Con Artist and the Car 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z
“The Moment” then proved spongy quick, absorbing the bewildering madness of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and expanding into more protests in more corners of the planet than seemed fathomable. The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z
It’s a very adult and absorbing universe of its own. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z
He thought that this was a humanly absorbing story, not often told. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-12T21:55:14Z
This is her first new collection since 2006, and well worth the wait — so instantly absorbing that it feels like an abduction. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z
What’s happening is that the oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and this is causing their pH level to fall. It’s the end of the world and we know it: Scientists in many disciplines see apocalypse, soon 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z
The South African novelist and playwright absorbingly illuminates his wide, worldly life. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z
The act of wrestling itself is an absorbing and obviously metaphorical contest. Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher review - Steve Carell gets to grips with his dark side 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z
The people milling around on the cathedral steps turn their backs to the Gothic grandeur; at the same time there’s a sense that they are absorbing culture and history just by being there. ‘Thomas Struth: Photographs’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z
At this point in any dance form, excessive hand movements are contrived, but Ms. Pericet, using her hips shrewdly, redeems these moves with absorbing touches that reveal the sinuous spiral of her back and arms. Review: In ‘Olga Pericet: Flamenco Untitled,’ the Dancer Maintains Control 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z
Gessen’s short book is absorbing not because it delivers answers, beyond bland comments like “time is the only solution.” ‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z
Alex Garland, who wrote and directed each episode, created an absorbing meditation on the very essence of human existence and free will, all hidden in an elegant techno-thriller. Nomination surprises: ‘The Mandalorian,’ Quibi get Emmy love 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z
If Pouillon hasn’t cooked up a tale as tasty as her wild mushroom soup, she has produced an intermittently absorbing account of an unusual life. The story behind the woman who helped make healthy eating cool 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z
“It’s a modernist book in that he’s absorbing all these fragments and using those to create a new world, and a new piece of art.” A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z
Use a really flavorful, rich bread like challah or brioche, which also works wonders at absorbing the rich custard. 15 breakfast casserole recipes worth rolling out of bed for 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z
The most absorbing part of the book concerns his traumatic childhood and early adulthood. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z
“Thurgood” is in fact full of absorbing contrasts — the tension of Marshall’s efforts to combat racism within a racist world and legal system where he would become the first black justice of the Supreme Court. | 'Thurgood': Marshall v. Bias: A Life Revealed in Anecdotes 2011-02-23T23:22:27Z
Lang’s “Scape,” an absorbing and consistently surprising dance that had its world premiere as part of the “New Moves: symphony + dance” festival, sneaked up on us. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage
Mati, the employee at the center of the hushed and absorbing documentary “A Still Small Voice,” reports for duty at an ordinary-looking office. ‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Grant Them the Serenity 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z
When I told him I was trans, I could feel him absorbing each syllable as it left my mouth. Planning my wedding as a non-binary bride 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z
Indeed, Skrillex seemed to bring out the demon in everyone, causing giddy agitation among the masses absorbing an onslaught of buffeting beats. Bumbershoot Day 3: big crowds, great weather, Gotye, Skrillex 2012-09-04T14:50:54Z
Alone, he has made absorbing drama from the anthill of British politics. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z
The resulting portrait is a complicated one, but it has an absorbing glow. Books of The Times: ?Pearl Buck in China,? by Hilary Spurling 2010-06-09T00:02:00Z
She learns how to talk back to bullies and resist absorbing their taunts, and she finally confronts her mother. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z
If there’s any liquid left in the pan from the sofrito, the grains will start absorbing it, adulterating this first important step, say the culinary guardians. Embracing paella will blow up your mid-summer grilling game 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z
An absorbing biography of the pioneering environmental writer on the 50th anniversary of “Silent Spring.” 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z
Defined by an ingenious knack for manipulating layers of feedback into oddly melodic hums and buzzes, this is a headphones record that gets more absorbing with every listen. Seefeel: Seefeel - review 2011-02-03T23:00:01Z
The movie strides with “absorbing, intelligent certainty through the desperately dangerous, uneven terrain of racially divided America,” Hollywood trade publication Variety said in its review. 'The Hate U Give' aims to inspire dialogue on racism in U.S. 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z
Maybe I was using the wrong approach — absorbing the store as a whole, and not like a warehouse picker in search of a specific item. The Amazon Warehouse Comes to SoHo 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z
Marlon Jackson reminisced onstage about standing in the wings with Michael at the Apollo, absorbing the lessons of James Brown and Jackie Wilson performing nearby. Music Review: Review: The Jacksons Pay Homage at the Apollo 2012-06-29T16:36:24Z
For Franzen's UK editor, Nicholas Pearson at Fourth Estate, the family at the centre of Freedom is "every bit as absorbing as the Lamberts of The Corrections". Bookshops pin hopes on Jonathan Franzen's return with Freedom 2010-07-06T10:03:00Z
On the other hand, Stutzmann is a conductor who certainly knows how to challenge common wisdom, making for an intensely absorbing evening. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z
As a young man, Helprin never got in a cab, was repelled by the cost of the subway and preferred walking, absorbing the city's people and places. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z
While the ensemble scenes are absorbing, Ms. Winkler also supplies confessional monologues, which are reasonably engaging, though ultimately unnecessary. Review: A Wedding Reunion Goes Down Like a Shot of Whiskey in ‘Kentucky’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z
The book, published for the first time in America, lacks fully developed characters, but Sigurdardóttir presents an absorbing, unhurried plot and writes eloquently about her unforgiving, eerily beautiful setting. A bookshelf of new Nordic noir 2013-02-07T00:10:27Z
Here, I’ve added a mix of thinly sliced onions and seedless grapes, which caramelize in the high heat, while softening in the sausage fat and absorbing its richness. Sausages, the Busy Cook’s Best Friend 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z
Not everything in the show is so absorbing. Art Review: ‘Better Homes’ at SculptureCenter 2013-05-02T21:29:09Z
“Far From the Tree” ends with a personal revelation from Mr. Solomon that I won’t give away, but it’s one that brings this important and absorbing book full circle. Books of The Times: ‘Far From the Tree,’ by Andrew Solomon 2012-11-13T13:00:24Z
The mysteries are smart and absorbing, but they’re secondary to the actors’ delineation of the evolving relationship between Cormoran and Robin, buttressed by Kerr Logan in the challenging role of Matthew, Robin’s undeserving boyfriend. Your Summer Binge List: 10 Shows You Might Have Missed 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z
The work is so absorbing that a reader might flip it open randomly and be immediately caught up. Zadie Smith's 'Swing Time' is a tour-de-force 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z
Engaging, naturalistic performances and nicely explored real-world issues add to this absorbing film's down-to-earth appeal. When it's 'Life Inside Out,' they turn to music 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z
Ultimately, the duo wanted to completely change the way audiences experience art: "We wanted everything to seem like an event," says Lingwood, "with art so immersive and absorbing, you simply can't get away from it." Artangel: Frontline warriors 2011-03-21T21:30:00Z
This is “Retrospective,” a curiously absorbing exhibition by the French choreographer Xavier Le Roy. Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Retrospective’ at MoMA PS1 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z
Seasoning wooden spoons keeps them from absorbing cooking odors. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: What’s for dinner? Breakfast! 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z
Unfortunately, “These Paper Bullets!” ultimately never moves beyond its clever conceit to become a fully absorbing reinvention of the Shakespeare play. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z
His music was really about absorbing your emotions and your psyche and your intellect into everything that there is to be found. The lost pop genius of Scott Miller: “Whatever makes you fall in love with a pop song … he did that” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z
He also studied the works of Correggio and Titian, absorbing some of the former's sentimentality and the latter's colour. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z
The dry surface is exactly right for absorbing the rich custard without the pudding getting soggy. 15 breakfast casserole recipes worth rolling out of bed for 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z
But as that wonder subsides, an absorbing drama develops—a drama that plays out among families all over China yet is universally intense, powerful, and heartbreaking. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z
"Acidman" is an absorbing drama that addresses themes of family, trust, truth, and reality. Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new "Acidman" role: "There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z
Those hills are gigantic sponges, absorbing water, filtering it, and providing the region’s aquifer with the purest water imaginable. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z
Are they still worth absorbing an entire month? The Fashion World, Upended by Coronavirus 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z
These insecurities were fed by absorbing decades of pop culture and advertising that privileges rich over poor, white folks over folks of color. My mom has always foraged. A year into the pandemic, I understand why 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z
By contrast, the 1961 "Rabindranath Tagore" by Satyajit Ray provided absorbing and enlightening context on the upbringing, travels, personal tragedies and political climate that informed Tagore's artistry and convictions. Rabindranath Tagore documentary doesn't do him justice 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z
Still, the general agreement is on delayed gratification — absorbing the rhythms, textures and climaxes, and holding off erupting into loud, vociferous pleasure until the end. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z
What we said: “A documentary with an absorbing and unexpectedly complicated story to tell, whose paradoxes and sadnesses are not entirely resolved by the end.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z
“And there’s so much difference between those two acts, because asking involves a human experience, while buying is just sitting in your coach and passively absorbing countless secrets that you think constitute magic.” Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z
“Even though I couldn’t really understand it, I was absorbing it.” Justin Brown Is a Monster on Drums. Now He’s a Bandleader, Too. 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z
The result is acting that never hits a wrong note and is as absorbingly detailed as designer Debra Booth’s humble and functional-looking kitchen set. ‘Moment’ review: Kitchen-sink realism makes this Irish drama shine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z
But this season was still an absorbing look at who holds power in Hollywood, at the tense dance of art and business, and at how “best” is in the eye of the beholder. ‘Project Greenlight’ Gives Rookie Director a Hollywood Education 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z
But after absorbing the onslaught of evidence in "The Embassy Cables," I realized what I witnessed represented only the tiniest tip of a colossal iceberg. Motherlode Blog: An Adoptive Parent Won't Take the Blame 2012-12-10T17:36:50Z
The crucial role of the costume designer in this process is the theme of a very absorbing exhibition. Hollywood drama takes starring role at V&A 2012-10-11T17:19:21Z
The eye constantly moves through curved space, absorbing light to create projected images. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z
Variety labelled the documentary “a coolly absorbing, deeply unflattering portrait of the late Silicon Valley entrepreneur”. Apple CEO Tim Cook attacks Steve Jobs films as 'opportunistic' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
Just as his fiction is beginning to incorporate some of the mysticism of his poetry, so Burnside's poetry appears to be absorbing the firmness of his fiction. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z
On Friday — the ongoing strikes over France’s pension changes delayed the opening by a day — she unveiled an absorbing, ingenious adaptation of Roth’s final book, “Nemesis,” on the second stage of Paris’s Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe. ‘Nemesis’ Review: A Philip Roth Adaptation Resonates 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z
The reminders are valuable and often absorbing in their own right, though. Review: ‘Frontline’ Traces the Footsteps of Covid-19 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z
It was never completed, for reasons this essay film — an absorbing and original mix of reminiscence, reflection and investigative mystery — gradually parcels out. Fall Movies 2018: Dive Into an Ocean’s Worth of Offerings 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z
How fears play out in the film is what makes "R.M.N." so absorbing, and the film's strange ending packs a wallop. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z
But mostly this absorbing album is about fatigue. Reviews: Jidenna, Chastity Belt, Sicko Mobb and Mickey Guyton 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z
Anni Albers' beautiful weavings are among the show's most absorbing works. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z
For people who might have little interest in the subject, the absorbing illustrations support an unexpectedly engrossing text. A Gorgeous New Book Chronicles the History of the English Garden 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z
“The World According to Fannie Davis” is a daughter’s gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full. Remembering a Mother Whose Gambling Operation Was a Very Successful Secret 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z
This absorbing, affectionate documentary chronicles the life story of the 7in black vinyl 45, at once utterly disposable and undefiably immortal. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z
They joined the company in 2013; both are absorbingly handsome in face and figure, with gorgeously elegant line. New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z
But as this absorbing biography shows, she embraced a precociously modern awareness of gender and class, campaigning tirelessly for the rights of women and workers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z
A book would absorb my tears like a human absorbing sadness, but this is a machine, rejecting my human emotions. Can a Kindle ever take the place of a book? 2012-12-05T14:05:01Z
The episodes contain an absorbing and often artfully filmed account of the opponents’ occupation. Viceland’s ‘Rise’ Relives the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z
That was true of this brief, absorbing concert from the Manhattan String Quartet, presented by a venerable club for musicians and the musically inclined, the Bohemians. The Manhattan String Quartet, Presented by the Bohemians 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z
Elizabeth LaBan: The Tragedy Paper is an 'absorbing tale of power dynamics and stifled relationships'. Fiction for teenagers – reviews 2013-03-30T15:30:01Z
Despite being a somewhat drier work than Collingham’s, it is nonetheless fascinating: Rappaport’s description of the ways in which tea has been marketed over the years is entirely absorbing, especially for an academic audience. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z
But for all its formal interplay and textual shifts, the novel is also, somehow, a cohesive, thoroughly absorbing read. Review | Alexandra Chang’s ‘Days of Distraction’ experiments with form to reveal the complexities of modern life 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z
Hiding From Trouble, Found by Innocents The central image in “Mud,” Jeff Nichols’s deft and absorbing third feature, is of a boat in a tree. Movie Review: ‘Mud’ Stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon 2013-04-25T22:00:14Z
It’s also quite personal, as the most absorbing work in the show is. ‘The Keeper’ Reveals the Passion for Collecting 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z
This huge and absorbing new biography, full of previously unexplored detail, shows that Obama’s saga is more surprising and gripping than the version we’re familiar with. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z
“A stately, absorbing overview from a tumultuous, invigorating era in art,” is how Times art critic Christopher Knight describes the new exhibition of paintings by 17th century Chinese master Dong Qichang at the L.A. Essential Arts & Culture: Kanye West's not-for-sale sculpture at Blum & Poe 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z
Describe her in three words Alternative, creative, absorbing. Blind date: ‘I wish I hadn’t brought up my embarrassing tattoos’ 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z
After absorbing a couple of additional details and a pause, the operative shrugs. It’s Bobcat Goldthwait’s moment: With “Misfits & Monsters,” he’s not hiding anymore 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z
His aptitude at absorbing every possible influence and at metamorphosing it through his own vision was phenomenal. Art review: Of Picasso and Provenance 2010-06-11T12:00:00Z
But some of that energy would certainly have been better used to create an absorbing scene or the semblance of a plot. Theater Review: ‘White Hot,’ by Tommy Smith, at the Flea Theater 2013-05-20T21:11:21Z
There are lots of traditional recipes meant to use up old bread, which excels at absorbing flavors. A New Life for Thanksgiving Ingredients 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z
In a blurb for “Washington Journal,’’ the book that grew out of that effort, Joan Didion called her observations “so coolly absorbing as to render the year almost reasonable.” Elizabeth Drew’s Washington
Its teenage participants swam, hiked, competed in archery and went to dances, all the while absorbing Nazi ideology. ‘Tell the Story Every Way You Can’: Bess Wohl on ‘Camp Siegfried’ 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z
Torture and drone strikes are the most debated topics of the film, and the discussions on their morality and legality is absorbing, if not especially enlightening. Spymasters: CIA documentary sheds little light on drones, 9/11 or torture 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z
Looking at James is an absorbing and poignant experience and I am certain visitors will be struck by his presence in the exhibition. Murderer James Legg's gruesome tale revived for anatomy exhibition 2012-09-30T14:34:49Z
Puig also says, "As an adaptation of part of the third book by Suzanne Collins, it's easily the most political of the three films. It also is the most absorbing and best in the series." 'Mockingjay -- Part 1' is stretched thin but holds, reviews say 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z
An absorbing mystery, an extraordinarily powerful evocation of time and place and a cast of characters whose every breath feels real – Unsworth gets better with every book. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T21:43:00Z
While absorbing, "Destroyer" is also flawed in ways that threaten to undo the positive elements of the film. Nicole Kidman is gunning for an Oscar in "Destroyer" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z
But then among Wallace’s achievements was the creation of a voice so distinctive and idiosyncratic that absorbing it gives you both a rush and a little bit of a hangover too. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z
While the plot is absorbing, the movie continually has characters voice their motivations, leaving little to subtext. ‘Into the Darkness’ Review: Making Excuses for Collaboration 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z
Not surprisingly, new-music ensembles — particularly groups of young players who grew up absorbing lessons from the pop world — have been the most aggressive about finding colorful names. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z
The director Christoph Marthaler has no less of a reputation as a provocateur than Mr. Loy, but his staging, though not without distractions, relates the action in a recognizable and often absorbing way. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z
The imprecise descriptions often dilute the men’s otherwise absorbing recollections of their journeys while black and undocumented. When the Price of Freedom Is Detention, Frostbite and Amputation 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z
Q: Michael, did you grow up absorbing all these ideas? Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z
Townshend's pioneering opus – the story of the "deaf, dumb and blind" Pinball Wizard – has its flaws, but remains an absorbing rollercoaster of theatre and heavy rock. Roger Daltrey ? review 2011-07-05T18:30:02Z
Their speeches, delivered eloquently, are absorbing in their headlong, stream-of-consciousness style. 'Timepiece' is an absurdist throwback 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z
"You'll still have to have an absorbing interest in life, something to do to make you feel alive." Character actor G.D. Spradlin dies in CA at 90 2011-07-26T07:16:04Z
They are absorbing and amusing to study, but it’s in her films that Ms. Cao most vividly projects her haunting, sad vision of modern malaise. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z
This is especially the case with her latest work "Luna Gale," which is currently receiving a thoroughly absorbing and cracklingly well-acted Goodman Theatre production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. 'Luna Gale' a grimly rich study of the fight to protect a child 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z
The group keeps absorbing their pas de deux. Review: At City Ballet, More Youthful Invention From Justin Peck 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z
A far more absorbing work of political theater came from Iran. At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z
But “Normal People,” like “Conversations With Friends” before it, is just as absorbing as the buzz would lead you to believe. Review | At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z
Sometimes his movements were herky jerky, as if he were absorbing invisible blows. Review: Kendrick Lamar, Rap’s Skeptical Superstar, Eschews Arena Spectacle 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z
Her delivery is sometimes cloying, sometimes deeply absorbing. Review: Bending It Like Bharatanatyam 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z
Not a chore, because she loves it, but something more absorbing, personal, private. The Great British Sewing Bee; Crossing England in a Punt: River of Dreams – TV review 2013-04-03T06:00:07Z
Winehouse's relatives said they were still absorbing the implications of the news. APNewsBreak: Authority of Winehouse coroner probed 2012-02-01T16:09:14Z
Whether the figure is absorbing or radiating karma, good and bad, is impossible to say, but for sure in this visual pièce de résistance, transformations of Buddhist art and thought soar on. Art In Review: ‘Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations’ 2014-03-20T23:45:56Z
The result is as swift and absorbing as the most gripping suspense novel. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z
Nicely photographed in verdant locations, the segments slide along a scale between absorbing documentary and illustrated Wikipedia entry. Review: In Viceland’s ‘Woman,’ Snapshots of Women in the Cross Hairs 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z
But it's exactly that audacity to explore such questions that made Lost such an absorbing, engaging series, and one that allows the viewer a safe way to discuss weighty, frightening existential issues. 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z
There are similar subtleties in “Charming Disease,” an affecting song about alcoholism, and “Icebox,” a drifting ballad about absorbing the death of a loved one. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z
You won’t find such images in the video pieces at Postmasters, though both are completely absorbing. 2010-01-08T04:33:00Z
The details are as real and absorbing as Ghent itself. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z
“It’s an absorbing occupation,” he says, at a party in the house he shares with his daughter. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z
“The amount of disappointment these kids are absorbing is very high.” Perspective | Stuck at home? Now’s the time to have these important talks with your kids. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z
But if they can be dramatic, they can also be absorbingly meditative, and a distinctive take on jazz fusion. This week's new live music 2011-02-12T00:05:30Z
Through an engaging mix of candid interviews and absorbing fight footage, Klitschko offers a captivating glimpse into the makings of these champion boxing brothers. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z
Tourist groups would come and go, sessions on the floor would open and adjourn, but Caro would remain, just absorbing the world that Johnson dominated as Majority Leader in the 1950s. Caro exhibit ‘Turn the Page’ is a window into his world 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z
Cloud Atlasby David Mitchell Despite its extremely complicated plot, the book itself remains extremely interesting and absorbing. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - review 2013-01-27T09:00:00Z
Mr. Rhein’s work in this absorbing show also includes a beautiful short film. Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 16-23 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z
“She was absorbing, and I can’t even say what,” Bridges said. A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z
It’s an absorbing experience and a useful introduction to the mood of much of the rest of the show. Review: In ‘Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,’ Text Messages From the Edge 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z
It’s a lesson worth absorbing, as was the success of the shade solidarity itself. The Golden Globes’ 500 Shades of Black: Did It Work? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z
Her books’ adroit pacing and pervading aura of menace made her one of the finest, most absorbing craftsmen of the profession. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94
In Season 1 the show’s creators and writers, the brothers Harry and Jack Williams, used that template to fashion a fairly absorbing thriller with Nordic-noir inflections. Review: ‘The Missing,’ With Children Gone and Parents in Extremis 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z
To readers prepared to suspend their usual expectations of a Trollope novel, The Fixed Period is an absorbing, thought-provoking and entertaining tale. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z
And some of the most absorbing contributions are abstract. For Black Artists, the Motivating Power of Melancholia 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z
It’s the hardest to clean, but it’s rich and forgiving, absorbing light so dings and dents are less noticeable. How to make that DIY paint job look more professional 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z
Conceived by Milch as a study of lawless society, Deadwood was an absorbing, at times difficult show. From Gunsmoke to Deadwood: why the US turns to the wild west in times of crisis 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z
One of Perry’s unique talents is his ability to tell what is essentially the same story over and over again, while continually finding ways to make it fresh and absorbing. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z
Tomorrow’s myth-creators are absorbing all of this information right now and distilling it into new tales, even if only in the depths of their imagination. "Game of Thrones" in the year of the pop culture apocalypse: What happens next? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z
Molly watches and learns, absorbing the game’s rituals and language while charming the all-male players. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z
Rimington's prose is no more than workmanlike, but Carlyle is an appealing character and the speedy plot is absorbing. New in crime fiction: a brilliant Irish mystery, a new thriller about MI5, and J.A. Jance's latest Arizona-set story 2010-07-07T20:15:00Z
Of course, Howard’s good fortune and good mood are not going to last, which is why his long, downward spiral is so absorbing for viewers who can appreciate the wild ride. “Uncut Gems” is a merciless, nail-biting crime thriller that lets Adam Sandler shine 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z
But for adolescent audiences, it’s also a moving and absorbing journey of a girl who discovers that even imperfections can sometimes be strengths. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z
The result is “absorbing and multipronged,” and “a kaleidoscopic dissection of how information courses through the country,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Mr. Mayor’ and ‘Tiger’ 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z
It’s a show with “Sweeney Todd” elements that also draws in threads about gentrification and racist policing, and it was so absorbing that I missed my turn by three blocks. The Best New Social Thriller Is a Podcast 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z
He is a ravenous artist, absorbing material from a huge array of sources just like many great, ravenous artists have done before him. Books of The Times: ‘The Dylanologists,’ David Kinney’s Look at an Obsession 2014-05-04T21:57:27Z
There is no black as black as burned wood, absorbing all light, blacker than coal because not reflective. People tree 2010-05-14T23:20:00Z
These absorbing speeches provide telling moments about his character, a flawed, obstinate man who grapples with his lot in life over the course of the film. Best men: 12 best male film performances in 2016 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z
The enraptured crowds flocking to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s thoroughly absorbing exhibition of Michelangelo drawings aren’t likely to agree with Dolce. Review | The bodies of his work: Michelangelo’s muscular mastery is on display at the Met 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z
The topics of conversation are funerals, aging; I think about the things that seniors think about, watching the shows they watch, absorbing the commercials they absorb. Being a caregiver for the elderly prematurely aged me 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this absorbing and potent novel follows a girl whose childhood friend is shot by the police and whose world is irrevocably changed by what she’s witnessed. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z
“Historicity” imposes no hierarchies where style is concerned, absorbing protocols from myriad sources. 2010-01-08T03:22:00Z
The dancer wearing fur did several striking movements, but their phrasing seldom held the attention, and her colleagues were yet less absorbing. Dance Review: Dylan Crossman, Tara O’Con and Stacy Grossfield at Roulette 2014-02-12T22:32:10Z
He concentrates on absorbing Lennon’s “liquid, singular, sniping voice” with its “verbal tics redolent of 1960s cool.” ‘Beatlebone’ review: What does John Lennon need to find his muse again? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z
Dozens of interviews — along with news clips and arresting aerial shots of New York, Iceland and other disaster areas — are folded into a clear and absorbing history, narrated by Matt Damon. | 'Inside Job': Dissecting the Wall Street Meltdown 2010-10-07T16:57:00Z
Yet here we are at season eight, and suddenly 24 feels as absorbing, vital, and relevant as ever. 2010-01-16T01:43:00Z
Though his Apollo never attained real elegance of form, he was absorbingly sinuous. Review: City Ballet’s New Gods and Duos 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z
Oscar winner Hurt said the cast spent a couple of weeks absorbing a glossary of complex economic and financial terms before filming began. 2008 meltdown plays like disaster flick in HBO film 2011-01-10T17:40:22Z
Regardless, they are beautiful and absorbing to look at. Art in Review: RYOJI IKEDA: ?the transfinite? 2011-05-26T21:51:06Z
“By absorbing Jesus’s death into Aboriginal myth, Weatherby suggests that it, too, has sacred significance and is for his people,” Ms. Jones said. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z
That much larger group, though, seems to be following the hearings and absorbing the media coverage, largely to deepen their own confirmation bias. Perspective | Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here’s how journalists can reach the undecided. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z
But after viewing the rest of this endlessly absorbing exhibition, you understand the risk the artist took, and why it was almost certain to misfire. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z
For example on the terrible problem of homelessness, it would be absorbing to read Matthew Desmond’s definitive book, “Evicted.” Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z
There are enough of these to make watching “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” absorbing. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z
Ms. Hopper, who grew up in Minneapolis and now lives in Chicago, is a senior editor at Pitchfork and the editor of its absorbing quarterly magazine The Pitchfork Review. Review: Jessica Hopper Looks Beyond the Boys and Their Bands in a New Book 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z
If her way of absorbing native musical elements into Western classical idioms calls to mind similar multi-cultural explorations by Osvaldo Golijov, Frank's music avoids the populist slickness that sometimes undermines his scores. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z
But the cheap shots are few and far between; for the most part, this absorbing film stays focused on the substantive issues raised by the lurid case. Review: ‘Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop’ on HBO 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z
But despite adding converts and absorbing orphans and battered women and runaway slaves, the Shakers’ refusal to reproduce led eventually to their near extinction. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z
But watching Hunter reacting to and absorbing some uneasy facts about her son in her single-minded pursuit for the truth is what makes “Strange Weather” so compelling. “I think that it’s easier to seek revenge than come to terms with someone inside.”: Holly Hunter stars in “Strange Weather” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z
Her hushed, near-reverent tone seemed oddly suited to the otherwise deserted space, its plump seating and high-pile carpeting absorbing stray sounds and lending it the aura of a velvet-lined jewel box. After ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Rebecca Ferguson’s Impossible Calm Amid a Whirlwind Mission 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z
Combining "length" with "rapidity," it should move, in Coleridge's indelible words, "like the hurricane and the whirlpool, absorbing while it advances." With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z
The heat shield did its job of absorbing heat caused by the friction of Orion’s descent through the atmosphere. Journey to Mars: Meet Molly White, an engineer helping to build the spacecraft Orion 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z
Kazin’s shrewd, absorbing volume looks at the 200-year history of the “oldest mass party in the world,” which has seen its political apparatus become a shadow of what it was in the Democrats’ 20th-century heyday. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z
Please tell such parents their kids are absorbing information, they just aren’t asking adults. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The birds and the bees in the Internet age 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z
While studying at the Central School of Art and Design in London, he visited the Bayreuth festival in Germany, absorbing Wieland Wagner's minimalist opera productions. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z
He grew up a loner, absorbing hours of daytime programming and, in the evenings, sometimes, beatings from his father. How Roger Ailes Degraded the Tone of Public Life in America 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z
Her time in hospital waiting rooms, absorbing the conversations of patients, inspired another novel, "Heart and Soul," in 2009. Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72 2012-07-31T11:56:13Z
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian There is something brilliant about the eclecticism of Deller and the show captured that – it was funny and completely absorbing. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 6 – Jeremy Deller: Joy in People 2012-12-14T12:10:00Z
On the other hand, well-prepared eggplant — cooked through and nicely browned on the outside, full of flavor after absorbing just the right amount of oil or sauce — is heavenly. How to Get Eggplant Right 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z
Retaining new information or absorbing new stories may be a problem, but one reliable workaround is escaping into much-loved classic crime fiction. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z
Almost the opposite is true of “Bon Voyage, Bob…,” a baggy, rambling gush of a piece that, at close to four hours with an intermission, is way too long and emotionally overwrought, yet oddly absorbing. Two Choreographers at Work in a Pina Bausch-Haunted Land 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z
They may flash intoxicating beams of light at the eye, but it’s best to think of them as the dung on which everything else in this endlessly absorbing exhibition grows. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z
Luckily, "Solitary Man" is funny and absorbing, and it features a lead performance by Michael Douglas that's both hugely entertaining in itself, and fascinating for the way it illuminates the actor's long, colorful career. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z
In the first movement, it was absorbing to note how the orchestra built up not only volume, but also layers of sound, with mild cellos offsetting the bright, lacquered gloss of the violins. Music Review: Matthias Pintscher Leads Juilliard Orchestra in ‘Bereshit’ 2014-04-12T01:20:16Z
But besides absorbing all the Kansas City blues and the Kansas City swing, Bird was pretty eclectic. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z
But in his retirement from the stage he continues to engage with Bach’s music and this absorbing new recording features a brilliant Italian Concerto and a colorful reading of the French Overture. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z
The movie, directed by Tom Shepard, becomes more absorbing as the subjects’ paths diverge. ‘Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America’ Review: Embracing a New Home 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z
"I like energy and commotion and absorbing things," Wang said recently at his downtown Manhattan studio. Alexander Wang makes sexy, attainable fashions for the texting generation 2011-10-19T15:30:00Z
Raised almost entirely in Germany until he was 17, Mr. Griggs, the son of an Air Force officer, said he learned political lessons by observing life in Europe while absorbing American culture from afar. Politics on Film, but This Time Leaning Right 2010-09-07T22:28:00Z
It's an absorbing, if slightly diagrammatic, drama immaculately directed by Rupert Goold in a joint production between Headlong and the National Theatre. The Effect - review 2012-11-14T01:20:30Z
But here we arrive at Sprackland's eco-solemnity, a problem of tone, and a tendency to employ truisms, that interferes with her otherwise absorbing narrative. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z
So back we go, and then forward, through the turns of an absorbing, sometimes improbable narrative of guilty secrets and unintended consequences. | 'The Debt': ?Debt,? With Helen Mirren - Review 2011-08-30T12:00:00Z
I only hope I am absorbing enough wisdom to cope when threenagerdom finally hits. 'Can Tony Soprano make me a better parent?': the lessons we've learned from lockdown TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z
About halfway through No Rules Theatre Company’s absorbing production of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” a rapt attentiveness descends on an urban back yard. ‘Seven Guitars’ by the No Rules Theatre Co. hits all the right notes
It was excellent, formally absorbing, the opposite of static. Basilica Soundscape: A Festival of Pop, Punk and So Much Else 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z
But, even though they’re relatively directionless, the protagonists of “Cusp” share a recognizable brand of insecurity and swagger with the overachievers of the absorbing “Try Harder!,” about a highly competitive high school in San Francisco. Perspective | Even in a world turned upside-down and an all-virtual Sundance, the movies survived 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z
This is absorbing, headlong reading, an inventive play on classic horror. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z
From the Dark, Illumination Visually precise and politically amorphous, the absorbing documentary “Abendland” opens with a self-reflexive image of a surveillance camera perched over a green field. Movie Review: ‘Abendland,’ a Documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2012-07-26T22:43:14Z
She started a new organization, the Partnership for Educational Justice, to fight the tenure issue, absorbing the remnants of her first group. Campbell Brown goes after teacher tenure in transition from journalist to advocate
But “Tank,” which Ms. Tamura presented with her Small Apple Co. on Friday evening at the Joyce SoHo along with her 2009 work “up and down,” was never absorbing enough. Dance Review: Makiko Tamura/Small Apple Co. in ‘Tank’ at the Joyce SoHo 2012-07-15T21:16:21Z
The only pity about this absorbing chronicle of one of the world's great climbing challenges is that the conditions aren't right for Cool and Brodie. TV review: Eiger: Wall Of Death and Waterloo Road 2010-09-02T06:00:00Z
It’s a deeply absorbing show — partly because the art’s formal qualities are strangely contemporary. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
Last year’s “A Season With Notre Dame Football” was an absorbing look at the endlessly fraught world of college football. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z
Klagsbrun’s thorough and absorbing biography suggests this woman politician made history in more ways than one. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z
As Varble gradually realized, the art market is adept at absorbing and neutralizing resistance. Stephen Varble: The Street Was His Stage, the Dress Was His Weapon 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z
It's an absorbing, lively and nostalgic read for anyone brought up on Puffin books and the wonderful Puffin Club. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z
It’s possible to enjoy a purposeful afternoon, as I did, simply walking and absorbing the vibes given off by the many old Manhattan hotels with literary associations. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z
Jack's story becomes an absorbing study of child development, revealing the depth of maternal love and the powerful bonding of parent and child, handled with delicacy and skill by an accomplished author. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z
An absorbing, straightforward thriller about an Israeli counterterrorism unit that shrewdly exploits the exigencies and emotions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its dusty, mazelike locales. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z
"I was absorbing compositions, ideas, emotions, energies," he said. ArtsBeat: A Conversation With Israeli-Born Choreographer Hofesh Shechter 2012-10-10T17:29:27Z
At the time, arranged marriages involved a whole family system, with brothers, and sisters, and in-laws absorbing the stresses and strains of two people trying to adjust to and find each other. "What's Love Got to Do With It?" director on dating today, from apps to setups: "Love is a mystery" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z
Realistic but with heightened colors and flattened planes, they’re homey and glamorous at once, capable of absorbing any number of idiosyncratic details. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z
After swimming to shore with the kid’s hoodie in her mouth, Ellie runs back to Carlos, saving his life and absorbing the kidnapper’s bullet. The Schmaltzy, Cinematic Dog Death Reaches Its Logical Endpoint 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z
And the riddle continued through this absorbing documentary – written and produced by Henry Lopez Real at 6 Music – as Cash noted that Gentry simply disappeared from public view, her "current whereabouts unknown". A week in radio: Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry? 2012-05-17T20:30:01Z
Juice from the white grapes macerates with the skins as with red wines, absorbing tannins and pigment depending on the length of the maceration. Orange Wines: A Genre With a Large Gray Area 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z
Somehow the spectacle of fiercely angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z
McCarthy’s screenplay has the Counselor absorbing an extraordinary amount of hokum. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z
There's no shortage of fun, then, but all the while their young minds are absorbing vital bits of information that will help them get to grips with their own amazing human body. How can today's children's museums keep up with today's children? 2013-06-27T09:44:00Z
As Knussen's performance with the ensemble Asko Schönberg demonstrates, every detail in the instrumental writing is precisely judged and the piece is assembled with such care that it's totally absorbing, and never remotely frivolous. Zuidam: McGonagall-Lieder – review 2013-06-26T16:44:35Z
The sloping downward and forward line that Degas’s dancers maintain from toe to hand in arabesque penchée is a single absorbing diagonal. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z
"Prayer for the Stolen," is absorbing because viewers will care deeply for Ana as she comes of age. In Netflix's captivating "Prayers for the Stolen," life goes on as one digs a grave to stay safe 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z
This is “Hollywood” at its most absorbing, nostalgic yet caustic. Review: ‘Hollywood’ Gives Movie History a Sudsy Rewrite 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z
His call to action was heard, and the Square appeared before him, absorbing him in itself. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z
Both books are absorbing; neither is particularly hopeful. ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’ 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z
The most absorbing entrants to the revised-history genre are the ones that dive into singular historical events with great modern resonance, as “Uncivil” does with the Civil War. You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z
Baker's new essay collection, "The Way the World Works," is always absorbing, merging his interest in solid, tangible objects with his devotion to the life of the mind. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z
Photograph: Andrew Hayes Watkins Prepare to swerve Dickinson's Real Deal for the week; yes, this absorbing daytime is that good. TV highlights 28/01/13 2013-01-28T07:00:00Z
His portrayal is technically flawless and, moment to moment, absorbing, but it feels completely exterior. ‘Des’ Review: Depravity, Brought to You by David Tennant 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z
In this absorbing German-Austrian film, a transparent barrier also imposes itself, but the woman it traps is, by all appearances, alone. Movie Review: ‘The Wall,’ Directed by Julian Pölsler 2013-05-30T23:01:20Z
This isn't just about absorbing information, though: there are apps for children to make music, draw and share digital pictures and record their own voices reading favourite stories. The 50 best apps for children 2012-08-04T16:24:08Z
This is a dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism. When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z
“The Other Woman” is absorbing — at times moving — but also frustrating, relying as it does on slackly staged, overacted, two-person scenes punctuated by uninspired New York montages. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z
The middle chapters of “The Gardener and the Carpenter” are stuffed with absorbing bite-size summaries of similar research, demonstrating children’s intuitive grasp of concepts like probability, reliability and ontology. Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z
That’s a pretty good lineup, and Sunday’s matinee was frequently absorbing, and more entertaining than many contemporary dance experiences. Dance Review: Taking on the Risks of a Mixed Lineup 2011-06-07T22:15:27Z
Applied to potatoes, the process also allows them to soften while absorbing the right amount of moisture and, because they’re not salted, heightens their inherent sweetness. Here’s the Secret to the Best Mashed Potatoes for Thanksgiving 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z
Like its predecessors, the book is a violent, absorbing historical saga, deeply researched and thoroughly imagined. Cornwell’s ‘The Pagan Lord’: a bloody battle for England 2014-01-22T22:29:30Z
This means that the action is unpredictable and unfolds at a lifelike pace, which is to say it’s both absorbing and tedious. Watch the Absorbing and Tedious Simulations of Ian Cheng 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z
The museum has been transformed by an ambitious exhibition about the global migrant crisis and by an absorbing account of the influence of modernism on African American artists. At 100, the Phillips Collection doesn’t seem to have aged 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z
It's a completely absorbing account of what happens when suspicion and rumour fuel secret agendas, prejudices and politics. Best children's books: 12-years-old and over 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z
In each new country, Mr. Brubeck mingled with musicians, absorbing local rhythms and melodies. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91 2012-12-06T03:26:03Z
That experience isn’t static; it exists through time, absorbing and responding to the world in which it moves. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z
At Westminster, he applied it to the hall’s east wall, the latex acting like a sponge, absorbing dirt and other particles. The Pain and Sweat of Merce Cunningham Dancers, Captured in Latex 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z
He also attended services at a local black Southern Baptist Church, absorbing the cadence and verbal style of its preachers. The power and the glory of Dusty Rhodes: The “American Dream” who transcended pro wrestling’s racial divide 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z
What I feel more than anything is a satisfaction about absorbing the whole canon. For Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer, a Last Romance 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z
The documentary’s most absorbing ingredient by far is its excellent collage of archival footage. ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Girlhood, Interrupted 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z
Fiddling with a miscellany of instruments, encircling the room’s profusion of mast-like wooden pillars, hopping, chanting or dancing in little tribes, they loosely weave and unweave an intermittently absorbing web of activity. Review: A Poetic, Postmodern Spin on an Old Art Form 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z
Yet for all its sense of stifled energy and moral implosion, it’s a calmly analytical film in which—as ever in Wiseman’s work—extended discussions and public debates are developed with an absorbing dramatic power. “Monrovia, Indiana,” Reviewed: Frederick Wiseman’s Anguished Study of Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z
Ms. Hicks went to Chile on a Fulbright grant and traveled around Latin America, absorbing the influence of weavers in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. A Career Woven From Life 2011-04-03T02:14:47Z
Africa and African-America are also the subjects of two other notably absorbing and startling books, both catalogs for exhibitions now on view. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z
All three were kinetic and also darkly absorbing, journeys rather than jukeboxes. Music Review: Electric Zoo 2011, Dance Festival on Randalls Island 2011-09-04T22:47:17Z
It’s a laugh line, defanging or absorbing what might otherwise seem sentimental. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z
Taken together they allow us to see a young artist absorbing her influences and confidently moving into territory of her own. 2010-01-29T23:29:00Z
Being ready for the breaks is different, it seems, from fully absorbing their meaning. Marsha Mason, still putting the pedal to the metal 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z
“It was a case of going into youth clubs, into schools, and absorbing what the girls were talking about, what life was like,” says Gavron. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z
The more time we spend inside her visions, the more we are invited to enable her, to shrug off our worry in favor of an absorbing paranormal mystery. ‘Horse Girl’ Review: Facing an Emotionally Taxing World 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z
Mr. Neenan, making each performer an individual character, creates a curiously absorbing drama out of their differences. Review: For Pennsylvania Ballet, Transitions Onstage and Off 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z
His efforts make for an absorbing subplot even if they don’t bear fruit. Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z
The news, as Mr. Smith made clear, was Mr. Tharaud’s absorbing and mercurial performances. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z
She’d grown up in a poor household near the U.S./Mexico border in Texas, absorbing “Murphy Brown” and “Roseanne” episodes. Fall TV season 2014: In portraying race, a little ‘-ish’ can help a lot
There’s no question that he is a real mover, absorbing and expressive. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012-08-02T21:53:05Z
It’s a thoroughly absorbing work of art — distinct from Roy’s political statements — a hybrid of satire, romance, thriller and history. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z
A guitarist and vocalist from Benin, Mr. Loueke has a style born of synthesis: he came into his own by absorbing multiple strains of West African and Brazilian music, along with decades of modern jazz. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z
I was spending at least six hours a day on these apps, just mindlessly scrolling, absorbing all of these unrealistic body standards. Feeling Bad? Maybe It’s Time to Log Off. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z
Even when unquestionably absorbing outside influences, Italian figural painters recast them almost beyond recognition. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z
“But reading him, you feel you’re absorbing the complete portrait of an entire life.” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z
Zamora, a poet, recounts in absorbing detail the dangerous, weekslong journey he took from El Salvador to reunite with his parents in the United States when he was just 9. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z
Mr. Iglesias’s storytelling shines unequivocally with the absorbing tale of meeting his estranged father after 30 years. ‘The Fluffy Movie,’ a Comic Documentary 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z
Among Others is a funny, thoughtful, acute and absorbing story all the way through, but in the magic parts it is more than that. Among Others by Jo Walton – review 2013-03-30T10:01:01Z
"That was a lot to take in just now I'm sure. And I'm sure you're still, um, absorbing that. And I am too." Goodbye Chris Matthews, MSNBC's reigning Ron Burgundy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z
“It is absorbing, lucid and true. Anyone who has lost someone by inches will recognize the struggle to push through despair and affirm the dogged endurance of love.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z
Fred Trump was a creative dynamo, as skilled at inventing new ways to create and market real estate as he was at absorbing the good ideas of others. The Trumpian Origins of New York’s Floating Billboard Problem 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z
In the absorbing but superficial "American Jesus," Spanish documentarian Aram Garriga offers a panoramic overview of Protestant subcultures in America, from Anaheim to Long Island. 'American Jesus' a superficial look at Protestant subcultures in U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z
She could picture Russia absorbing both Belarus and Ukraine, she said, just as it did in “Dogs of Europe.” An Exiled Theater With a Warning for Europe 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z
Movies can come in many flavors, but conventional cinema is a "hot" medium that seeks to sweep you up into a fully absorbing emotional and visceral experience. Pervs and thieves on the Internet: A Hollywood history 2011-03-29T22:30:00Z
At the same time the movie, as if absorbing Leda’s ambiguities, has an uncertain quality that thickens the suspense. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z
And market makers such as food producers, distributors and retailers need to consider absorbing more corporate risk, in the form of reduced profits, "for the greater good". Price inflation: 5 ways stronger UK supply chains can help reduce rising food costs 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z
Everyone is still absorbing the implications of that when a human heart is discovered among the animal remains those young jokers used in their monster-carcass gag. Review: ‘Loch Ness’ Has a Monster, and an Alluring Mystery 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z
It’s not easy for her, nor is it easy for Caitlyn—herself, after all, a senior citizen who’s spent a lifetime absorbing gender assumptions even as she chafed against them. Review: 'I Am Cait' Is 'Coming Out With the Kardashians' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z
This is what Mlodinow calls “elastic thinking” and he tells an absorbing story about the what, why, and how of it. How Elastic Is Your Brain? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z
Much of this music has been out of print for a while; nearly all of it still sounds absorbingly vital, driven by Mr. Threadgill’s distinctive ideas. Playlist: Whether Jazz, Rock Or War Anthems, A Vintage Harvest 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z
Number Nine Dream explored the first movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony through the hazy veil of the contemporary electro-acoustic sound-world, making for an absorbing aural experience. Bangor New Music festival | Classical review 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z
There were books where I clearly wasn't getting it; I wasn't absorbing the material properly. My phone helped me fall in love with books again 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z
Coming in at 85 minutes, this taut, altogether absorbing thrill ride, set entirely within the drab interiors of a Copenhagen police call station, so efficiently and economically calibrates tension it seems a kind of miracle. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z
Though the play may disturb some with its stark expressions of racism and anti-Semitism, the action is absorbing and well-paced, directed with an expert hand by Gregory Mosher. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z
The stage is set for an absorbingly real story. Cannes 2013: The Immigrant 2013-05-24T11:28:37Z
His vision implies that if we are allowed to lead absorbing, properly remunerated lives, we will likewise outgrow our addiction to consumerism and technology. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z
Several scenes provide absorbing panoramas of the heroes moving as if they’re of the same mind. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z
It is an extraordinary achievement and the book is an absorbing, pacy, disturbing read. Breaking Night by Liz Murray ? review 2011-01-30T00:20:00Z
As effective and fat-free as its sinewy star, Luke Evans, "Dracula Untold" proves an absorbing, swiftly comprehensive origin tale. 'Dracula Untold' proves vampire allure is hard to resist 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z
That film seems to me more likely to last — it is deeper journalism and more haunting cinema — but Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z
She has had to become a master of absorbing gross indignities. Review: A Housekeeper Claims Center Stage in ‘Member of the Wedding’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z
The beautifully absorbing story of a deaf female boxer whose beloved gym is facing closure, Sho Miyake’s affecting drama is miniature in every way except emotional impact. The Joy (and Pain) of the Physical, at an In-Person Berlin Film Festival 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z
She also got a bartending job at Wally’s Cafe, a jazz club in Boston, and began absorbing the jazz scene. Meghan Stabile, Who Linked Jazz and Hip-Hop, Dies at 39 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z
I thought about Cleaver’s lines, too, while reading Jessica B. Harris’s absorbing new book, “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America.” Books of The Times: What Africa Brought to the Table 2011-01-24T18:22:55Z
A stomach full of milk from the last feed meant he was not absorbing the feeds properly. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z
At first, one is struck by the bombardment of narrative and the exhaustion of absorbing all the information that comes from the supertitles. One Thousand and One Nights ? review 2011-08-22T12:34:36Z
Any particular line may sound flat, even colorless, but the cumulative effect of these Shaker sentences is absorbing and reverent. Kent Haruf’s posthumous novel offers a tender look at love in the twilight 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z
Indeed, Tekashi is skilled at absorbing bad press and turning it into something positive, knowing that attention is the currency of fame. The saga of Tekashi 6ix9ine: inside the story of a 'supervillain' rapper 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z
What interests him – in this wily, absorbing study – is how and why his authorship became a problem, and what ancillary purposes, political and religious as much as literary, the controversy has served. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z
We see the onstage action from the side, then on a video monitor in the green room, observing the movement of props and bodies rather than absorbing the movement of Chekhov’s drama. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z
Sokurov, a festival favorite and considered a master by many, brought his strange, absorbing interpretation of Goethe's Faust, a movie which divided audiences in Venice. Venice film festival wins on points, lacks knock-out 2011-09-09T13:29:02Z
Yet the quality of the arguments, the power of the performances and, above all, the depth of Richard Eyre's production make what should seem wrong utterly absorbing. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z
When is “absorbing the visual gist” a chance to excel? Motherlode Blog: Dyslexia's Silver Lining 2012-02-06T21:25:40Z
For someone who never saw the original productions — I didn’t — these are absorbing documents. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z
At first, Mexico City resists our young Chilean refugees, but it finally relents, absorbing them into its inner life. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z
Otherwise, Benjamin Fingerhut’s documentary is a brisk and absorbing tour of the human ego. | 'Repo Chick': Latest Celebutante Satire Already Out of Date 2011-01-14T01:12:09Z
From his teenage years on Mercer often crossed the city’s racial divide, absorbing the influences that shaped his music. 2010-01-29T14:51:00Z
Forty years after the Black Jazz period, the long-estranged couple are recounting that absorbing story with every appearance of cordiality and plenty of their old skilfulness and spirit. Doug Carn/Jean Carne – review 2012-06-24T17:30:01Z
His hunger for something new led him to Paris for six years, where Mr. Kelly looked at a lot of work by Picasso, among other greats, absorbing his mastery of line and composition. Art and Design: Ellsworth Kelly?s Wood Sculptures in Boston 2011-11-27T05:07:13Z
Is Holiday a gifted autodidact, as one could easily believe after absorbing the elegant, spare prose of “Conspiracy” and its seemingly timeless message about human nature? Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z
Set in 1899, it harks back to the proto-steampunk sensibilities of Verne, involving an Arctic journey that becomes a battle against mad scientists and fantastic machines, all accompanied by Tardi's intricate and absorbing artwork. Sharon Gosling's top 10 children's steampunk books 2013-02-28T11:19:24Z
Kepnes’s absorbing narrator, Joe Goldberg, the multiple murderer who demonstrates “the shattered barrier between id and superego,” is back for a third book. New in Paperback: ‘To Make Men Free’ and ‘You Love Me’ 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z
Yet, the most absorbing parts of “Miss Americana” involve Swift’s reckoning with the disillusionment of dislike — not simply other people’s but her own. ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z
The future’s diversions were so absorbing that they commanded attention over everything else. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z
Although built around songs from their 2010 album Magic Chairs, An Island is absorbing to watch even for newcomers to the band. Efterklang: Access all areas 2011-03-03T22:13:01Z
Tyson’s meticulous and absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z
We were absorbing the Southern narrative of the Civil War. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
Its crowded streets and makeshift dwellings hold endless desperation, but the movie is too busy, too angry and too absorbing — too exciting, you might say — to succumb to despair. ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z
Parents who love anxiety can’t do much better than Apple TV Plus’s morosely absorbing “Servant,” a sort of haunted-house story with baby monitors. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z
This episode is absorbing because Ray exudes a calm, cool, and collected demeanor until things go sideways. Guy Ritchie's 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z
Just out in paperback, Foreman's tome is an absorbing chronicle of the British and their diplomatic high-wire act with the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Summer reading: 10 nonfiction books to last the season 2012-06-15T17:01:34Z
The first four episodes of Season 3 of “The Americans,” which returns Wednesday night on FX, are just as absorbing and dark and impeccably realized as what we saw in Season 2. The return of FX’s masterful ‘The Americans’ — a Cold War with perfect chill 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z
But I’m still absorbing it, to be honest. A Word With: Andrew Sullivan 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z
Aided by innovative approaches to music and tone, the filmmakers displayed their masterful melding of history and humanity, presenting the story in a calmly factual and thoroughly absorbing manner that is increasingly rare. Perspective | Best TV shows of 2017: ‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Vietnam War’ and more 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z
Musicians are always absorbing information about musical traditions they’re not born to. Debut Albums From Areni Agbabian and Johnaye Kendrick 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z
Smith disappears into each character, absorbing their words, their mannerisms and intonations. Anna Deavere Smith returns to Baltimore, with a mission 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z
These mini-treatises, absorbing on their own terms and written in a tone of sweetly patient explanation, are not exactly what a mind shaped by horcruxes and lightning thieves expects to find thrilling. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z
Most absorbing was “Stay Away,” a paranoiac plea for release from the grip of an unforgiving lover, or drug, or something. Music Review: Charli XCX at the Knitting Factory 2012-03-11T22:00:12Z
Nonetheless, Kidd’s interpretation of the transformational experiences in the lives of the Grimké sisters, entwined with the travails of their enslaved servants, makes for an utterly absorbing work of fiction. ‘The Invention of Wings’: waking to the evils of slavery 2013-12-31T22:20:55Z
It's the stillness of someone in perfect control, someone quietly absorbing a bright unfolding fame, the stillness of a turned-off fountain in a shopping centre after dark, pennies glistening at the bottom. Rinko Kikuchi: the interview 2011-02-27T00:05:20Z
In the late 1990s, a tiny group of people was responsible for absorbing a huge proportion of Ottawa’s healthcare budget. The shelter that gives wine to alcoholics | Tina Rosenberg 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z
Like its predecessors in the Kingsbridge series, “A Column of Fire” is absorbing, painlessly educational and a great deal of fun. Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z
He remembered crawling into bed after absorbing the words that ended his relationship with Young Life and lying there for the entire day. Football player’s coming-out story disproves every dumb theory about gay athletes 2014-02-01T13:00:00Z
Mr. Herzog, meanwhile, was absorbing the Breughel-like atmospherics, while taking a break from his own next project with Mr. Nelson, a death row documentary. ArtsBeat: Herzog Found at Comic-Con 2011-07-23T23:01:40Z
But while in college, Mr. Kaczynski also developed an absorbing hobby: seeking out revealing video clips of politicians and sending them to journalists. A Onetime BuzzFeed Wunderkind, Now at CNN 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z
A lot of music was abstract yet absorbing. Noon to Midnight, L.A. Phil delivers new music (and free ice cream) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z
The miracle of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Distant” is that it is continually absorbing, even when not much is happening — which is most of the time. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Masterpiece of Existential Angst 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z
Hauck’s absorbing memoir describes the cooking club she ran at a residential home for adolescent boys in Boston. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z
But for all its genuinely absorbing qualities, “Ohio” retains a whiff of calculation. Review | ‘Ohio’ explains how America got into this dark mess of alienation and frustration 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z
He has a facility for slipping into places, becoming part of the furniture, absorbing the experience of others. Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter 2013-04-27T08:00:00Z
There was a big ovation at the end but no encores, the right choice by Mr. Campbell after such an absorbing program. Review: Jay Campbell, the Cellist, Displays Strengths at Weill Recital Hall 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z
The differences between the two Olivers provide the play’s most absorbing food for thought. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z
I truly feel in those mahjong scenes, sitting at a table with three of her friends, and just listening and absorbing and figuring out how it relates to her and her life — that's just me. Allison Janney softly speaks of her high-volume career 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
Those with affectionate memories of Carlebach’s music may find “Soul Doctor” inspiring and absorbing. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z
The sequence is an early taste of the knockout acting in this Studio Theatre world premiere, an absorbing and meticulously crafted but — until a last-minute twist — conventional naturalistic portrait of a marriage on the rocks. Review | Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z
And yet, this space — a Northern Idaho apartment, as depicted in Rep Stage’s absorbing, funny and harrowing production of “The Whale” — ultimately seems sweepingly broad and full of vistas. Rep Stage’s ‘The Whale’ examines life’s physical and emotional struggles 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z
This absorbingly paced show isn’t packed with explosive new revelations or a daring approach; it’s just consistently on the mark. Williams’s ‘Cat’ lands on its feet at Round House 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z
What the reader may initially find challenging in her convergence of intimate personal history and classical mythology soon turns deeply absorbing. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z
I recommend trust in your own capable child rearing and an absorbing diversion or three. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Does personal accountability still exist? 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z
This keeps them from absorbing too much oil in cooking. Perspective | Summer’s bounty presents a perfect opportunity for antipasto 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z
Actor Tom Skerritt, who had a key role in Scott’s movie, will talk about his experiences making that absorbing work. Otherworldly film fun at Cinerama sci-fi fest 2014-04-25T23:42:29Z
Yet Mr. Braff seems, at least on the surface, to be absorbing his success with a little less angst. Zach Braff in Paul Weitz?s ?Trust? at Second Stage 2010-07-29T21:38:00Z
Visitors donning plastic ponchos breathe in the humidified libations, absorbing most of the alcohol through their lungs, although, as the website notes, some will be absorbed through the eyeballs. A New Bar in London Lets You Breathe in Cocktails 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z
But after seeing a painting by the French artist in a Palo Alto collector’s home, Diebenkorn studied Matisse’s work, absorbing his palette and technique. Art Fall Preview: From East Coast to West Coast. From Concrete to Ethereal. 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z
The venue’s maroon seats were cozy, and a sweeping, gold-trimmed interior welcomed attendees to sit back and look up, absorbing a space that had recently been restored to its pre-Depression opulence. Erykah Badu Delivers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z
It's impossible not to think of the current conflict in Ukraine watching "The Invisible Front," an absorbing new documentary that delves into the Lithuanian resistance against Soviet aggression and occupation circa 1944. 'Invisible Front' reveals same fight for freedom 70 years ago 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
The performances were so absorbing, full of character and effortlessly played that all thoughts of how a survey of these scores fits into the unfocused festival’s overall theme seemed irrelevant. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z
But there are countries that are happily absorbing elements of authoritarian regimes: Hungary, Poland. Belarusian political dissidents on spreading their message of freedom: ‘We never know when our life will end’ 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z
We staggered out into the heat, about 235 feet below sea level, an otherworldliness absorbing us. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z
This absorbing account reconstructs the saga of Muslim sisters who fled their home in Norway to join ISIS, and of the distraught father who went after them. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z
What definitely turns up is an absorbing story told in a style that’s antique without being dated, rich but never pretentious. The most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z
Recently returned from a demolitions job in Iraq, April is a 20-something hottie who nursed a drunken stepfather into the grave after dutifully absorbing his survival skills and militarized view of the world. | 'The Abduction of Zack Butterfield': A Tale of Female Lunacy 2011-05-26T23:57:33Z
A bookish, introverted child, Sean kept mainly to himself, drawing, reading and absorbing everything imaginable about his beloved commercial jets. Motherlode Blog: Coming Out by Christmas Card 2012-11-18T13:30:32Z
Cathleen McCarron narrates the book in an intoxicating Scottish accent that adds yet another engaging dimension to an exceedingly clever and absorbing tale. Review | Cuddle up and listen: 3 great audiobooks to stave off the winter blues 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z
I adored the tailoring Jil Sander, complex as it was, but the fabrics—were they woven, printed, scratched, top-stitched?—were completely absorbing and new. 2010-01-19T19:34:00Z
Those and other late works are highlights of “Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World,” an absorbing but problematic exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
A deeply absorbing show at the Good Luck Gallery introduces Frieder, who was largely unknown before his death last year, through 20 mixed media works on paper. Andrew Frieder's blunt poetry born of the urgent and intimate 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z
He called the book "monumental and absorbing" but worried about the "perspective and balance," noting Gaddis never mentioned that in 1968 Kennan endorsed an anti-war Democrat, Eugene McCarthy, for president. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z
As absorbing as “The Legend of Swee’ Pea” is, it might have been even better if May had pulled back the curtain more on his off-camera interactions with his subject. ‘The Legend of Swee’ Pea’ Review: Obstacles Put Talent to the Test 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z
If so, the word would accurately characterize Thomas Adès's "The Four Quarters," the absorbing centerpiece in the opening chamber concert of the UW World Series season Tuesday evening at Meany Hall. Emerson, 'Four Quarters' a beguiling start to UW season 2012-10-03T16:55:04Z
It is a timely, absorbing story, beautifully acted and masterfully told. Steven Spielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z
It’s as absorbing for the audience as it seems to be for her. Dance Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z
Anyway, as has repeatedly been the case throughout this fascinating series, what threatens to be a fairly turgid exercise in cadaver-poking quickly becomes utterly absorbing. Screen burn 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z
In this absorbing special, the engaging Rom tells us more about these beautiful cats, and their uneasy truce with humans. TV highlights 17/05/2013 2013-05-17T06:00:06Z
Mr. Rose studied those traditions, absorbing what he called “the very precise language of drums,” in travels throughout Senegal and expanded the language, creating numerous riffs of his own. Doudou N’diaye Rose, Senegalese Drummer and ‘Human Treasure,’ Dies at 85 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z
The bags, absorbing the copper and metallic colors of the clothes, were offered with new treatments of skin, like turning the firm alligator to a pliable softness. Fash File: Tod?s Bally and Bulgari during Milan Fashion Week 2012-02-27T19:42:16Z
One of the most absorbing aspects of "Maisel" has always been the insertions from history, the alterations, the slight shifts and the true stories. Before jumping into the final "Maisel" season, here's a tight five refresher 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z
What we said: This is a disturbing and absorbing film, shrewdly acted, particularly by Larson. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z
Wrenching in impact, these absorbing accounts were surely yet more overwhelming than those ill-prepared premieres in the workshop-like surroundings of a barely completed building. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z
The book is overlong and the dialogue sometimes stilted, but no matter — “Dominion” is absorbing and richly conceived. Cure for the post-holiday blues: captivating crime fiction 2014-01-08T23:06:28Z
Now here was the result, every bit as absorbing as inherently promised. Music Review: Maxwell and Jill Scott Play Madison Square Garden 2010-06-27T22:53:00Z
The Guardian called it “stunningly moving and powerful: intimate, passionate, often shocking, and almost mesmerically absorbing.” Amy Winehouse Documentary Unveiled in Cannes 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z
This complex and absorbing book follows 16-year-old Gemma Doyle from her home in India to a boarding school in Victorian England after the suicide of her mother. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z
The realism of watching these family dynamics ebb and flow is absorbing, but the direction can be too self-conscious. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z
Frankly, “The Lost Leonardo” is fleeter, more internally consistent, more absorbing. ‘Savior for Sale: Da Vinci’s Lost Masterpiece?’ Review: Doubling Down 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z
He’s an amiable host focused on telling an absorbing tale full of tightly edited twists and turns, and is less concerned with connecting photos of suspects with red string. Was a ’90s Scorpions Song the Work of the C.I.A.? This Podcast Is on It 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z
Though the animation can veer into the sentimental, it’s more often skillfully done and absorbing. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Green Wave’ Documents Iran’s Green Revolution 2012-08-17T15:12:40Z
When baked until tender and bound with cheese, the tiny rounds of toasted pasta turn silky, absorbing all the flavors around them. Taking Comfort in Couscous 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z
The movie is packed with directorial flourishes, like an absorbing long tracking shot and a short scene where the screen fades completely to black. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Quiz’ and ‘The Vast of Night’ 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z
It was absorbing enough on its own, never settling for repetition when it could offer permutations or move on. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z
My small imagination had no difficulty absorbing things I could actually see, like the depth of the hull or the vastness of the sails. The Mary Rose museum has cast me adrift on a sea of 80s nostalgia 2013-05-30T16:00:01Z
Movies and politics work at different speeds, reshaping themselves—and absorbing each other—in unpredictable bursts. The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z
Rice weaves his Anishinaabe heritage into an absorbing, unique story that will interest teens fans of this genre. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z
Critics have been unanimous in their praise of the film, with the Telegraph calling it "a crowd-delighter", and the Hollywood Reporter adding that it is "touching, witty and absorbing". Frears tells tragic Philomena story for humour 2013-09-08T11:09:41Z
This is an absorbing, original and genuinely surprising novel. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z
More important even — by absorbing some of the stress so he is less likely to melt down. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: In this case, daughter seems to know best 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z
Accepted on its terms, the film does a reasonably absorbing job of dramatizing how Zellner’s convictions strengthened, pulling him away from the security of inaction. ‘Son of the South’ Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z
A moment arrives in the harrowing and absorbing “I Shall Not Hate” that is so unbearably sad you may want to hide your eyes. You’re tempted to look away during ‘I Shall Not Hate.’ But you shouldn’t. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z
This X-rated version of “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” soon segues into an amusing — and surprisingly absorbing — series of quests. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z
Resist absorbing another person’s anxiety and tension in your home as you are so often wont to do. Sign Language: Horoscopes for people oblivious to Astrology 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z
If you're not familiar with this event, the neighborhood annually hosts thousands of sweaty people in the street who crowd and jostle while absorbing noise ricocheting off brick walls from huge speakers. Capitol Hill Block Party 2012: break outs and sure things 2012-07-19T14:01:12Z
The result is what our reviewer called “a strangely absorbing piece of investigation.” What to Read Before Heading to Ethiopia 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z
This highly absorbing novel imagines a near future of America in which abortion is illegal in all 50 states. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z
However, this underdeveloped midsection does lead to an absorbing finale where Amy encounters some real danger. In the tension-filled "Profile," a journalist goes catfishing online to get recruited by ISIS 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z
“Boyhood,” which director Richard Linklater filmed over 12 years, finally meshing real life and fiction in an absorbing coming-of-age drama, is just the kind of audacious experiment the medium needs right now. 2015 Oscar nominations show lack of diversity in a year when films didn’t 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z
“Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sharp Objects’ and ‘Snowden’ 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z
The title piece of this tremendously absorbing show, “Reason’s Oxymorons,” is an installation of 18 video monitors in semiprivate cubicles. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z
The opening sentence of this absorbing and vivid debut evokes the mood: “The sun is at the vertical, and shade is as scarce as charity on Biashara Street.” Africa is setting for three new mysteries 2013-05-08T21:09:14Z
I’m not convinced of either piece’s long-term value, nor of the effectiveness of pairing them, but this was still an absorbing evening of theater. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z
I was happy to be a witness, absorbing the energy. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z
“We just liked to be in a dark room among strangers, sitting and absorbing something.” For Caleb Azumah Nelson, There’s Freedom in Feeling Seen 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z
The show is a stately, absorbing overview from a tumultuous, invigorating era in art. 'Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Collection' at LACMA 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z
When someone verbalizes their righteousness in a purposefully subtle, intricate, absorbing way, are they saying the loud part quiet? Review | Noname says the loud part quiet 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z
To see these Seattle artists absorbing themselves in one another’s work does everyone good. Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z
The routine nailed what Bruno called the “intense melancholy” of Daisy and Gatsby’s story to terrific, absorbing effect. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Movie Night and the end for Couture 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z
But as “Look at the Pictures” demonstrates through its absorbing biographical scope, Mapplethorpe wasn’t an idealist, nor was he always a fun guy to be around. HBO’s Mapplethorpe doc does the artist a big favor: It makes him naughty again 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z
She writes such absorbing, wise, tender books, devastatingly acute about human nature – and wonderfully easy to read. 'I watch old westerns while the spuds are in the oven': creative people on how they relax 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z
An extraordinarily absorbing 20-minute digital montage includes just enough dramatically monochrome uniforms to make the details of everyone else’s outfits seem equally intentional. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z
In light of recent events, a late section closely recounting Biden’s decision to end the American war in Afghanistan is plenty absorbing. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z
On this absorbing album, partly inspired by anatomical terms of movement, he leads an improv-chamber group — woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, the whole deal — through oblique tangles of counterpoint. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z
Could gardeners’ grubby hands be absorbing homegrown Prozac? The healing powers of the earth 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z
And over the course of this absorbing film, that love will be tested. Juliette Binoche is torn between two lovers in Claire Denis' potent "Both Sides of the Blade" 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z
I know how absorbing it is, so I’m going to wait a little bit to do that. Toni Collette brings life to the role of a dying woman 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z
The absorbing and even revelatory program is the work of Thom Beers, whose company Original Productions creates steroidal cable shows like “The Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers.” Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z
Unmastered is at its most absorbing when Angel tests the distinctions we think we live by: "I travel in a loop of gender." Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z
At long last, a great episode of "The Killing" No, it wasn't the 98-yard dash to victory that this AMC show so desperately needed, but Sunday's episode of "The Killing" was still surprising, absorbing TV. At long last, a great episode of "The Killing" 2011-06-06T12:07:00Z
The choreography served as a guide, lighting up the music’s structure and drama from within so that they became encompassing and absorbing. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z
That type of precision proves absorbing, and the suspenseful series has gotten rave reviews from critics — and, possibly more important — accolades on social media. HBO’s ‘The Night Of’ is getting early rave reviews. Can that translate into a hit? 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
Over the course of this absorbing story, Julian and Kendall’s relationship is threatened by a lynching in Jim Crow-era Florida, encouraged in bohemian Greenwich Village and reignited after World War II. ‘Wherever There Is Light’ review: A tale of lovers caught in history 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z
“It’s as if warehouses are absorbing America’s lost retail employees which initially sounds kind of nice doesn’t it?” he said. John Oliver on Amazon: 'A system that squeezes people lowest on the ladder' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z
It all fuses into an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness. The 10 books to read in 2019 based on what you loved in 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z
This is certainly the humid atmosphere of Netflix’s absorbingly unhappy new drama/thriller “Bloodline,” which begins streaming — and steaming — Friday. ‘Bloodline’: Will superb acting and family secrets make for another Netflix hit? 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z
“Now I might not understand politics, or immigration policies, or the law, or basic ideological concepts,” Garrison, absorbing a great deal of Trump’s spirit and style, tells supporters. South Park depicts Donald Trump being brutally murdered 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z
The way he lives in his head while simultaneously absorbing the thoughts of his Greendale Community College friends is remarkable. Top 5 TV shows that deal with mental health 2013-06-17T17:15:00Z
The newly opened “Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach” is a tightly organized, deeply absorbing overview of a subject extraordinary in its complexity. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z
From that point on, he straddled their worlds, moving about, spending periods in Mexico, absorbing cultures. Cary Fukunaga: exclusive interview with the new James Bond director 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z
To me it was very satisfying last year to see Don propose and Betty’s reaction to it and the office absorbing it. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season Finale: Series Creator Matthew Weiner Discusses 'The Phantom' 2012-06-11T18:58:07Z
This is Mr. Akinmusire’s most absorbing work since “When the Heart Emerges Glistening,” from 2011, a contemporary classic by his quintet. Ambrose Akinmusire’s Trumpet Takes a Back Seat to His Pen on ‘Origami Harvest’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z
This is absorbing, headlong reading, a play on classic horror with an inventiveness of its own. After a Copycat Murder, Reopening an Old Case and Old Wounds 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z
Still, it’s evident that the drama is considerably more open to multiple interpretations, and that the dance, so marked by sketched circles, radial paths and diagonal tableaus, is absorbing in strictly formal terms. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z
Tyson’s absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z
Even mediocre film versions of Matheson are more absorbing than they might first appear. The scary delights of Richard Matheson 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z
What we said: “It plays out in the absorbing classic style, featuring the principled lawyer taking on the corporate bad guys on behalf of ordinary folks.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z
In “Traumhaus as Lipogram,” Machado compares writing under a formal constraint—without the letter e—to absorbing the “taints” of abuse. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z
But within the next few weeks access will be restored, and with it the possibility of an absorbing encounter with the work along with a distanced survey of it. Always in Its Element, No Matter the Weather 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z
It was a very good, absorbing, mature, well-executed drama, but hardly innovative in story, format or characters. House of Cards Watch: I Ate the Whole Thing 2013-02-08T14:00:42Z
By tapping into her routines, instead of framing her along solely tragic lines, the filmmakers fashion a diary of experience that’s all the more absorbing. Review: ‘Heaven Knows What’ Dramatizes a Young Junkie’s Life 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z
Everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound like one of those rich, totally absorbing epics that invade your waking hours and your dreams. What to read this summer? Ten authors weigh in with their picks. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z
Checking them all out — from J. S. Bach to Joseph Beuys — made an absorbing diversion in the Act I Prelude. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z
The result is a provocative and absorbing history of the United States — “not as it appears in its fantasies, but as it actually is.” ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z
Paulik adopts the countenance of a sad human sponge, absorbing the insult as a fact of his existence. New playwright’s biting ‘Bad Jews’ hurts so good
The idea of a smidgen of machismo, absorbing the Lacroix torero spirit in mod clothing sounded good on paper. Special Report: Fashion: That Ghostly Presence 2011-06-23T17:07:01Z
Cep assembles an absorbing volume about Harper Lee’s post-“To Kill a Mockingbird” project — a true crime book in the vein of “In Cold Blood” — that never saw the light of day. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z
Neither the dancing nor the drawing is rewarding for its own sake, but as drama this film is absorbing. 2010-01-30T05:48:00Z
The whole history created by the author is really absorbing and the detailed descriptions of the amulets, different types of magic and Russian folklore made the book seem even more fulfilled. The White Cat by Holly Black 2013-02-08T15:00:00Z
This is a question with which this absorbing and well-researched book never quite gets to grips. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z
In this one, three characters speak four meaty, ceaselessly absorbing swaths of prose. Theater Review: 'Faith Healer' Casts Its Spell Again 2011-02-22T13:30:04Z
What it is: An absorbing, soulful recreation of time and place that evokes the isolation of this time. Watching From a Distance: What Gives a Virtual Dance Life? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z
In both artists’ works, the materials and production processes are evident and absorbing to study. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z
I found its uncomfortable combination of empty and embellished, absorbing and belittling, very much as Fellini described it “inspiring … and slightly sinister”. Inspired by Rimini: a tour of Fellini’s magical home town 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z
A short quartet for women is absorbing in its way of showing them as four individuals who happen to share the same space and time. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z
After absorbing his introduction to the concept of situps, I followed along as nameless ladies in shiny leotards instructed me to reach, crunch and tune into my abdominals, my ankles wrapped in weights. Exercising to Slim Down? Try Getting Bigger. 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z
It was an absorbing, unpredictable duet that moved far beyond cute. Dance Review: Taisha Paggett Stages Performance Piece at Whitney Museum 2014-04-17T21:22:30Z
It’s an utterly absorbing, utterly enlightening, utterly important book about classism in American higher education and the myth of meritocracy. How Libraries Saved Cheryl Strayed 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z
And at that he succeeds very well; “Worthy Brown’s Daughter” is a fast and absorbing read, and Margolin’s law expertise makes the book’s climax — a courtroom battle — an exciting moment indeed. ‘Worthy Brown’s Daughter’: fighting for freedom in Oregon 2014-02-06T22:35:07Z
But again, despite this or that puzzler, it was an absorbing evening, with fine singing and arresting moments of theater. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z
Bespoke period products came into existence shortly after the first world war, when nurses realised that the cellulose-based bandages they were using to dress wounds were better than cotton at absorbing blood. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
Andy Warhol was not just an artist; he was a giant evolving sensibility that angled itself through a great portion of the late 20th century, absorbing everything in its passage and altering it, often permanently. Andy Warhol, Superstar 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z
“Quarry’s” eight episodes build out an absorbing story, rivetingly told. The best TV shows of 2016: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ ‘Veep’ and ‘ The Americans’ lead the pack 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z
But for anyone willing to submit themselves to Hill’s literary ministrations — sometimes gentle, sometimes gritty and abrasive — this novel will prove utterly absorbing. ‘NOS4A2’: draining the potential from his young victims 2013-05-16T19:36:25Z
The danger with such an absorbing family soap opera is that Wasserstein’s work — the 11 plays, 2 screenplays, essay collections, and a single novel, “Elements of Style” — gets overshadowed by the life. The Wendy Chronicles 2011-08-17T16:52:55Z
But throwing in the towel on this absorbing period drama would be a mistake. ABC's 'The Astronaut Wives Club' Is A Mesmerizing Slice Of American History And Character 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z
After absorbing the sad news, he began hearing his old mentor chiding him: "Now don't you talk about me during the game. These people aren't tuning in to hear about me. Talk about the game." How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig at 22 years old 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z
And as I sipped my cocktail at an outdoor table, absorbing the euphoria of a perfect spring evening, the words felt more like an apt description than a promotion. Spring in Paris, My Adopted City, After the Siege 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z
That scene is woven into Hunter’s moving, consistently absorbing drama of an Idaho mining town whose identity and history are disappearing, like the faces in an old Polaroid photo. Review | ‘Greater Clements’ is the best new play of the year 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z
Like many older games it takes some getting into with only minimal instruction, but once you're acclimatised, Ascendancy proves itself an absorbing game that demands careful attention to strategy. This week's new games 2011-02-05T00:05:37Z
The epic Siberian Breaks crams half a dozen genres into an absorbing pocket symphony. MGMT: Congratulations 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z
It would be more absorbing if Mr. Esmail evinced a stronger point of view about the themes of technology, control and freedom that serve as the source code for his story. Season 2 of ‘Mr. Robot’ Turns Inward From the Cyberworld 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z
It would also be rewarding an absorbing story, beautifully acted and masterfully told. Why The Post should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z
While the media is busy playing everyone off against one another, children are absorbing dangerous messages from all sides. 'My granddaughter loses sleep over terrorism': how children respond to global events 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z
It's not really even sophisticated enough to be an absorbing zombie movie. 'The Dead': long plod through zombified Africa 2011-10-20T20:10:05Z
“Bullard’s absorbing story … reads like a picaresque novel,” Thomas E. Ricks writes in his latest roundup of military books. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z
But the pleasures afforded by this long-running television series overlap considerably with the satisfactions for which many of us look to the theater: a heightened literacy, refined wit, rich characterizations, absorbing narrative, plummy British accents. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith 2011-02-17T18:40:33Z
But Butler is just one facet of this absorbing story full of “the incongruity of beauty and gore.” ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z
Clocking in at 170 minutes, the director takes his time absorbing even the most minor on-screen character, never losing the tension that’s wired to the core. 10 Films We See in the Grand Theft Auto Games 2013-09-24T22:17:56Z
By coming up a real queer kid, amid the fake kind, while absorbing the genre’s accent on individual style, I learned glam’s broadest lesson. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
Predictably, as a parent myself, I found His Struggle absorbing, delicate, clever, cannily plotted. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z
Seeing it again, after absorbing the biographical shocks, deepens the movie and its subject. Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z
The 19 pastels on view in a quietly absorbing show at the Good Luck Gallery were among hundreds made in the decade and a half before his death in 1972. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z
What remains is a deeply absorbing, highly addictive murder mystery matched with a carefully considered psychological work-up of an elite community. Review | How HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ transcends the usual rich-mommies drama 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z
Baker and his many admirers saw him as a rounded, sophisticated musician — an arranger, composer and student of the craft absorbing sounds from around the world. Ginger Baker, Cream’s volatile drummer, dies at 80 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z
And she grew up absorbing the various influences that flooded her hometown and focused on creating art that examined China’s economic boom. As China Evolves, the Artist Cao Fei Is Watching 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z
I knew a lot of my mother’s attitudes toward women and sex were wrong, but that didn’t keep me from absorbing some of it. Modern Love: Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich 2011-05-05T21:28:33Z
But despite its size, it is deeply absorbing — the sort of focused exhibition you could easily spend an hour in and come back to with pleasure. Review | There has never been a U.S. show devoted to Venice’s first great painter, Paolo Veneziano. Until now. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z
Boulevard Saint-Germain, normally marked by sounds of screeching motorcycle wheels carving through bumper-to-bumper traffic, is quiet, its slate-roofed limestone apartment buildings absorbing the cloudy winter skies and raindrops. In a gray, empty Paris, this corner shop’s colorful posters transport you wherever you want to go 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z
Women are tired of absorbing the brunt of his failures, as a man and as a president. Perspective | Donald Trump keeps begging women to like him. They keep saying no. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z
But despite the state of the world, a number of absorbing books are on their way. Summer Reading Suggestions, Handpicked for Your Taste 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z
Safinia made several trips to town over the last year, absorbing the city by osmosis, and he has included actual news stories in the plot, including the issue of O'Hare expansion. Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z
Tiny details of individual fingers, extended or clenched, became absorbing in her performance; different rhythms, alertly shown, made her mere walk riveting. Dance Review: Performers Showcase Classics at DanceFest India! 2013-07-01T21:42:40Z
What better way to defeat the post-holiday blues than by swatting them with some absorbing crime fiction? Cure for the post-holiday blues: captivating crime fiction 2014-01-08T23:06:28Z
The action looked lush, painterly and utterly absorbing as one would expect from the creator of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Hobbit's 12 minutes of frame at Comic-Con 2012 2012-07-16T10:39:23Z
Just as in the classic stovetop version, the vegetables cook on a sheet pan, softening and gracefully absorbing generous amounts of olive oil while their juices mingle, turning fragrant and complex. Ratatouille, Simplified and Just as Satisfying 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z
Stephens’s ideas and presentation make for a dense, continually absorbing hour. ‘Terra Femme’ Review: How Women Have Seen the World 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z
There was a lot to learn, but absorbing the rules and physics was part of the appeal. Experience: I’m a 13-time world champion at real tennis 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z
The 18 paintings here are so rich and demanding, so challenging yet absorbing, that the prospect of a full-dress Guston retrospective can seem almost daunting. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z
So I stayed where I was, absorbing the silence. Modern Love: Is God Just Not That Into Me? 2014-04-17T19:13:08Z
Vera, absorbing it, seems more stunned and weary than meanspirited when she replies, “It suits you, Mom.” Theater Review: ‘17 Orchard Point,’ a Tale of a Strained Family 2014-05-07T17:06:16Z
This class of pen, which has come to dominate the medium, achieves its unearthly glow by absorbing UV rays and re-emitting them into the visible spectrum. Who Made That?: The Hand-Held Highlighter 2012-01-22T08:45:49Z
Neither, though, is it a consistently absorbing dream. Review: Dancing in the Liquid Realm of Dreams 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z
This tough sheet of connective tissue cannot only leave your ribs chewy, but also prevents the meat from absorbing the seasoning and spice of the rub. The secret to the best grilled ribs ever is your oven 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z
All in all," , "it was an absorbing tale of two icons witnessing the end of their own era. Burton and Taylor warmly reviewed 2013-07-23T10:16:52Z
A year ago it staged an absorbing play, Ben Brown's The Promise, about the Balfour Declaration of 1917 supporting the principle of a Jewish homeland. Reading Hebron ? review 2011-02-14T09:56:15Z
At the end of the ’90s Mr. Pesce began painting the still lifes that are his most visually absorbing and soulful works. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z
The supplemental characters do help provide absorbing embroidery. Review | ‘The Inheritance’ is epic in length, but not always in satisfaction 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z
They had developed kindred styles on their solo albums, absorbing lapidary Laurel Canyon folk-pop, punky electric-guitar drive, glimmers of electronics and psychedelia, and lyrics that mix confession and fantasy, the diaristic and the surreal. The Indie-Rock Trio boygenius Returns, Confident and Connected 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z
But once you start to ride with the rapturous, gorgeous, digressive symphony of images and words and music in this film it's completely absorbing and unlike anything you've ever seen. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z
An absorbing collection of essays and newspaper columns about Latin American politics and culture, it has the feel of a definitive position paper. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z
He spent the next 10 years studying the serial, absorbing the characters. From the Observer archive, 1 June 1988: the celebration of Street life that goes on and on 2013-06-01T23:05:11Z
Young readers can practise detective observation skills searching Chris Riddell's absorbing illustrations for clues that will later in the story suddenly, and satisfyingly make sense. Kate Pankhurst's top 10 books starring young detectives 2013-05-09T17:10:47Z
Kids are always absorbing things, and you never know if it will change their lives. Harmonizing at home changes life of sisters in the Staves 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z
“This absorbing, stirring novel,” Gaiutra Bahadur writes in her review, suggests “what history might look like when written from people’s memories rather than enshrined in textbooks that silence or distort the truth.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z
“Citizen” made some impact as a pure-dance piece, though it’s far from Mr. Wilson’s most absorbing; its connections to racial issues never became interesting. Review: ‘Citizen,’ Reggie Wilson’s Bridge From African-American History to the Postmodern 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z
The narrative of "The Butterfly Mosque" is replete with insights into faith, family, cross-cultural courtship and the inevitable "clash of cultures," making it an absorbing read. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z
Taken as a whole, Mr. Krell’s catalog is absorbing, dreamlike and jagged at just the right moments. Music Review: How to Dress Well at Glasslands: Shadowy Tribute 2010-08-15T22:16:00Z
I may not care for the art, but "Sweet Tooth"is an absorbing and disturbing read. Comics: 'Young Justice' mixes teen sidekicks in cartoon, book 2011-08-09T21:33:04Z
Not as whimsical as I'd feared but something altogether more solid and grounded and an absorbing read. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-02-05T11:39:21Z
In my opinion, Leviathan is a great book; gripping, absorbing and intriguing. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld - review 2013-07-14T08:00:00Z
I sank into a knee-high bed of 21 tons of malted barley in the tennis-court-length kiln, where grain sits for 60 hours, absorbing smoky, savory essences from a peat-fueled fire burning underneath. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z
Soon, he’ll be absorbing this fact: no drama has ever won five seasons in a row. ?Modern Family? Takes Home Five Emmys 2011-09-19T04:28:15Z
But the problematic opening gradually transformed into what I found to be absorbing effectiveness. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z
But that musical experience was absorbing, insightful and, given the size of the space, remarkably transparent. Review: A Must-Hear Maestro Leads ‘Requiem’ at the Shed 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z
If you missed it — or even if you didn’t — the next best thing is “A Steady Pulse,” an absorbing digital archive published last year by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. The Works of Lucinda Childs, Online and Absorbing 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z
“By 1890 the richest 1 percent of the population was absorbing half of the entire national income and controlled more than half the nation’s wealth,” the authors assert. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z
Soon after, the movie shows flabbergasting video of them shoveling debris while presumably absorbing lethal doses. ‘Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes’ Review: Excavating Images From the Fallout 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z
More important, she finds an absorbing continuity in Lindy’s abrupt, breakneck changes of mood and behavior. | 'Side Effects': When Golden Couple Melts Down, Puddles Ensue 2011-06-20T02:01:01Z
The action is at once absorbing and easy to tune out. Review: Sasha Waltz’s Action Painting Swirls to ‘In C’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z
What Finlay absorbingly captures is far more than an ordinary pregnancy. ‘Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth’ Review: When He’s Expecting 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z
Even in the Whitney’s absorbing and comprehensive exhibition, it can be difficult to hear the decency and sensitivity of Wojnarowicz’s promiscuous world-making. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z
As "Full Moon Fever" was going platinum, I was absorbing every nuance throughout 40-hour workweeks while shilling it in suburban Missouri as a retail record clerk. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z
The better ones somehow intuit an audience’s discomfort, absorbing the anxiety and replacing it with cool reserves of dignity. Films to Heal a Broken Moment 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z
Our reviewer wrote, “I found ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ by far the author’s most absorbing work to date. Books You Can Read in a Day 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z
The film's third act - the Navy SEALs assault that killed bin Laden - is as tense and absorbing as big-screen action gets. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z
That film’s title gets reappropriated in the director Lana Wilson’s absorbing documentary, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which emulsifies its biography of Shields with lucid insights into the culture that shaped her. ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Girlhood, Interrupted 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z
But politics, for Updike, as for so many others who came of age in the 1950s, formed the background to the more absorbing concerns of career, marriage and family. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z
Rather than going from neighborhood to neighborhood, hat in hand, the orchestra would insert itself into new communities in organic and meaningful ways, absorbing cultural lessons and cross-pollinating aesthetics and audiences. Brooklyn Philharmonic Lands Alan Pierson as Artistic Director 2011-10-01T04:00:06Z
But an absorbing, must-see exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum goes far in bringing the episode back into long-awaited view. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z
Burning,” a massive, immensely absorbing meditation on America’s racial history, was the first volume in a projected trilogy and an indication of just how thoroughly Iles had recovered. ‘The Bone Tree,’ by Greg Iles: Laced with menace, betrayal and twists 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z
There’s a lot going on in “The Oregon Trail,” a book that’s absorbing on shifting levels. Review: In ‘The Oregon Trail,’ Two Brothers Take an 1800s-Style Road Trip 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z
For some time, I sat on the bed, holding my wife and absorbing the news. Julius: The Story of a Premature Birth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z
West isn’t like the Charles we know — he’s more charismatic, more obviously commanding — but he’s a strong, absorbing screen presence, as usual, and you understand why the show needed that. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z
The rendezvous and its fallout are fraught and absorbing, but Krauss doesn’t stop at their immediate impact. Nicole Krauss’s Stories Cross Boundaries of Geography and Convention 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z
The novel — a follow-up to last year’s well-loved “Beach Read” — is absorbing and entertaining. Review | Emily Henry’s ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ is a pitch-perfect beach read 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z
Too Young for Driver’s Licenses, but With Full-Throttle Ambitions “Racing Dreams,” Marshall Curry’s absorbing documentary examination of the world of professional auto racing, comes at its subject craftily: from below. | 'Racing Dreams': Marshall Curry?s Kart Racers, With Full-Throttle Ambitions 2010-07-08T23:44:00Z
Season 2 of “Fauda” retains much of what made the first season absorbing. Review: ‘Fauda’ Returns on Netflix, Guns Blazing 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z
“Oppenheimer” is a great achievement in formal and conceptual terms, and fully absorbing, but Nolan’s filmmaking is, crucially, in service to the history that it relates. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z
Afterward, I walked around town for over an hour, just absorbing the show. After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z
Upon absorbing "Jet Age," I am less likely to consider my future air travel commonplace. 'Jet Age': Sam Howe Verhovek's story of how Boeing came to rule the skies 2010-10-15T21:11:00Z
“Billions” hasn’t abandoned any of the various subtexts that make it so absorbing; in fact, the decreased furor means it brings more attention to those themes. “Hate is nature’s most perfect energy source”: Showtime’s “Billions” hits its stride in its return 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z
Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking. ‘Coup 53’ Review: International Underhandedness, Still Mysterious 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z
It’s the only part of his production when everything lapses into ballet cliché, with none of the telling details that turn the rest of this work into absorbingly poetic drama. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Spurs American Ballet Theater to Work on the Details 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z
Siréne, the artist from Tokyo, tells me that, for years, he was depressed and suicidal: “I felt like a sponge, absorbing everyone’s feelings, cursed with empathy.” What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z
In The New York Times Book Review, Edmund White called it a “gripping novel, absorbing right to the end” and “a deep meditation on fate and death.” Juan Gabriel Vásquez Wins International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
A highly improbable result would be a consistently funny and absorbing evening that revealed the flaws and disappointments afflicting these characters, and the rhythms of a hardscrabble livelihood in a blighted neighborhood. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z
“Leadership: In Turbulent Times” is most absorbing when Goodwin resists the urge to glean pat lessons or rules from the past and allows herself to savor the stubborn singularity of each moment or personality. The True Grit of Four American Presidents 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z
That gathering provides a wide array of suspects, all of whom are investigated in this absorbing, emotional ten-episode series. 6 Podcasts About Unsolved Mysteries 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z
Nevertheless, This Is has plenty of absorbing moments for piano lovers. John Law/Mark Pringle: This Is ? review 2011-08-11T21:14:00Z
“Kidnapped for Christ” is an absorbing example of knowing when, as an observer, to get involved in the story. In Season 2, FX’s ‘The Bridge’ reaches a little too far
The binge was lovely and absorbing, and I felt glad that I’d waited: “Girls” was a different, better, funnier show than its obsessive and often airless coverage had made it out to be. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z
The broader culture has become adept at absorbing the extremes and sanding down harsh edges, whether it be sagging jeans that hang off the rear or mohawks paired with shredded denim. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z
These taut, absorbing pieces weave together memories and close readings of work that has haunted or challenged him. Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z
I don’t mean to suggest that this haunting, absorbing novel is trying to draw readers in with any kind of cynical formula. She’s So Unusual. Is She Magical? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z
When I’m reading or listening for too long, my mind will stop absorbing the information. 24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z
I chose the travel-theme series and spent the next half-hour absorbing a slow build of information, from singular nouns to plural, with new verbs introduced. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z
Our reviewer, Kurt Andersen, called the novel “smart and knowing and absorbing.” New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z
Laura Miller, the influential book critic for Salon, called the book “utterly absorbing” in a review in May. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z
It's the opening chord of Gustav Mahler's first symphony and, absorbing though the former prime minister's words are, I confess that Mahler ousts even Tony Blair every time. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z
At the Jewish Museum, these three teachers’ works hang alongside those of the Vitebsk academy’s sometimes gifted, sometimes derivative students, whose pamphlets, posters, drawings and watercolors offer an absorbing view of politics and pedagogy. Flying Goats and Black Squares, Charging Into the Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z
“I am a sort of quiet and affable presence in my family, and this felt like such a declaration of how much I’d been listening and absorbing.” A Play ‘Meant to Trouble’ From a Writer Raised in Conservatism 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z
It's an absorbing, contemplative film that compels us to participate rather than just sit back and look. N?nette ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:52Z
“With equal parts majesty and humility, she held court - and I listened intently, absorbing every word and meaning that she had to impart,” Morial said. Maya Angelou, the nation’s wise woman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
But as Edison's desperation in this battle against Westinghouse grows, Cumberbatch's performance becomes more internal, as if he is absorbing all of the blows and does not want to admit defeat. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z
The title track remains the most absorbing Portico melody, and Jack Wyllie's soprano sax takes on an eloquent, voice-like tremor against a more insistent percussive sound on the live version. Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep in the North Sea ? review 2011-02-03T21:46:00Z
Their deepening collaboration propelled some of the album’s most absorbing cuts, like “Pulling the Pin,” which features a haunting chorus from Mavis Staples, who sounds like she’s coming in over an extraterrestrial radio. Run the Jewels Is Rewriting Rap’s Rules 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z
As a writer I long to be absorbed and I found Wallace entirely absorbing. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z
Elsewhere on the local front, two absorbing books from writers with intimate knowledge of their settings: May crime fiction: Oates, Robinson and NW authors 2014-05-07T20:18:58Z
This also ensures that kids are not just absorbing our material but practicing by participating and making along with us.” 9 amazing preschool shows developed by early learning experts 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z
But while the Rossini scholar Richard Osborne has called the project absorbing, he added that “it would be wrong to suggest that the volumes radically alter one’s perception of Rossini’s personality or achievement.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z
The exhibition also includes a smattering of works on paper, including the strangely absorbing, experimental writing “Cheshire Cat IV” from 1971. Howard Fried's set of imperatives play out unexpectedly 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z
On Chopped, food is simply work, which is both honest and absorbing to watch. Top Chef Vs. Chopped: Who Rules the Food TV Kitchen? 2012-02-22T16:06:29Z
They devour such artifacts in the hope of absorbing some reflected rays of glory. Book review: ‘Bomb: The Author Interviews’ doesn’t capture magazine’s signature voice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z
We plunged into the powdery slopes, sneakers absorbing sand at every step, and reached the summit in an hour and a half. 7 Days, 1,500 Miles in Namibia 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z
“I was much more flexible in mind and body as a youth,” he writes, about the difficulty of absorbing each new horror. Books of The Times: “Life After Death,” by Damien Echols 2012-09-19T21:18:19Z
At another point, he wrote, “Inside marriage, one ceases to be observant because observation has become so automatic, its object at once absorbing and taken for granted.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z
Marina Warner's Stranger Magic is as absorbing, wise and playful as the Arabian Nights tales themselves. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z
Worse still, Justine seems to be absorbing her father’s bigotry, innocently parroting swears and racist slurs. ‘Justine’ Review: A Bittersweet Intersection of Lonely Lives 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z
But “Misha and the Wolves” is most absorbing when it deals with the search for truth. ‘Misha and the Wolves’ Review: Fuzzy Memories 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z
As Nikil Saval recounts in his sharp and absorbing history of the office, America long ago overcame this aversion and became “a nation of clerks”. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z
A judge blocked the largest publisher in the country from absorbing a rival, thwarting further consolidation in an industry that has been deeply reshaped by mergers in recent years. A Big Publishing Merger Was Blocked, but Brought the Industry Little Clarity 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z
That aside, “84K” is absorbing and timely; a book to wrestle and argue with, but first and foremost, to read. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z
The early plaster sculptures are the hushed thrills of the show, but works from the '50s and '60s made of wood, which became his signature material, are also absorbing. Miro, Noguchi and the name you should know (but probably don't): Jeremy Anderson 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z
There are even dances, like the first two movements of “Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3” and all of “Kammermusik No. 2,” in which the choreography actually looks more absorbing than it did in Balanchine’s lifetime. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z
It’s a tribute to his inspired dive into oral-history archives that, despite the aesthetic and dramatic banality of his approach, the movie is, somehow, utterly absorbing and deeply moving nonetheless. “They Shall Not Grow Old,” Reviewed: The Indelible Voices in Peter Jackson’s First World War Documentary 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z
Look for cushions made of reticulated foam, which wicks away moisture instead of absorbing it. How to choose outdoor furniture that will last 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z
Premiering July 31 on Sundance Channel, The Honorable Woman would be an absorbing espionage thriller any time it aired. REVIEW: The Honorable Woman 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z
Cleverly, the show makes Beck just as absorbing — and in some ways, as slippery — as Joe. 10 Recent Netflix Originals Worth Your Time 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z
“He does seem to be absorbing the technical lessons of certain artists,” Ms. Tierney said, “but has not yet found a unique voice.” A Gallery Sells Hunter Bidens. The White House Says It Won’t Know Who’s Buying. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z
For the longest time, books seemed too evocative for car rides, too absorbing to serve as mere accompaniment to a scenic journey. New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z
In that sense, these absorbing productions might have been assembled under Cromwell’s own ruthless supervision. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z
She’s immediately seeing the payoffs with nominations for herself and Pike both playing highly unlikable but completely absorbing women in those two films. The Sad State of the Best Actress Oscar Race 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z
Out of this Mr. Crialese has created an absorbing drama not just about a traditional society in crisis and the major issue of immigration but also about individuals facing universal moral choices. Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z
The ensemble brings such a sure touch that the spell lasts a long time, even if by the end it’s a surprise how much this clever, absorbing drama hedges its topical bets. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z
The macaroni goes in next, absorbing flavor as it cooks. The American Thanksgiving 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z
But it is absorbing from start to finish. Domesticated: What Happens After the Sex Scandal 2013-11-05T10:45:25Z
New monsters and Pikmin varieties, and a cameo by the star of the first two games, add further entertainment to this charming and utterly absorbing adventure. Pikmin 3 – review 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z
Given the vast influx, authorities are accustomed to absorbing and integrating large numbers quickly, whether they originate from Ethiopia, France, Russia or the United States. France's Jewish migrants face challenge of life in Israel 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z
Cooper's answer is to find the man behind the myth in a sharp, absorbing portrait of the scholar-gypsy. Best biographies of 2012 2012-11-29T17:00:01Z
The film carries a trace of the sweep of a great screen epic along with the straightforward, explanatory qualities of mass-audience TV, and is never less than absorbing. Review: In ‘Viceroy’s House,’ the Birthing Pains of Two Nations 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z
Gee's deft accomplishment in this absorbing memoir is to plot her life in relation to several explanatory systems. My Animal Life by Maggie Gee 2010-05-14T23:31:00Z
One reason might be that Mr. Ruff’s work is as challenging to describe as it is absorbing to look at. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z
As with reading on your phone, though, after a while you forget the means by which you are absorbing the text. Are Tiny Books a Sign of the Twee-ification of Literary Culture? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z
She added, “The more time we spend inside her visions, the more we are invited to enable her, to shrug off our worry in favor of an absorbing paranormal mystery.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Horse Girl’ and ‘Ma’ 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z
The experience of reading Mary Beth Keane’s absorbing new novel, “The Half Moon,” feels — pleasantly — like breathing, or maybe just living. ‘The Half Moon’ Has a Powerful Pull 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z
Societally, we’ve effectively offered ourselves and our families up as an inadvertent, uncontrolled experiment in absorbing a cumulative chemical load. Motherlode Blog: Is the 'Household Chemical Purge' the New Baby-Proofing? 2012-03-15T18:57:55Z
More specifically, we might ponder the world that is in part a result of absorbing formative lessons about politics, other countries and unfamiliar people through the limited, specific vision perpetuated by movies and television. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z
His reputation rests on a small, idiosyncratic and viscerally absorbing body of work in which he broke ground in form, harmony, timbre and rhythm. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z
Even without the sisters’ voices, the passages in which Seierstad attempts to piece together how the girls were radicalized are absorbing. Aggro-Texting From the Syrian Jihad 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z
Eig has written an absorbing history of the pill’s conception and birth. The Pill’s Difficult Birth 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z
Rice is especially effective at absorbing arsenic, a common pesticide, as it grows. 95 percent of baby foods tested contain toxic metals that could harm brain development, study finds 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z
It may be a complicated transition for those used to absorbing the theater and spectacle of the runway, or eyeing fit and fabric up close. London, Fashion and the Importance of Being … Something 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z
Pioneers from a disintegrating Earth build a new society in this absorbing British science-fiction drama set on a habitable planet called Carpathia. 10 promising new summer TV shows 2011-06-15T19:42:10Z
Though its lessons may be prosaic, the book is still absorbing and valuable, and Isaacson’s outsize narrative talents are on full display. Book Review Podcast: Walter Isaacson's 'The Innovators' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z
This kind of direct address may well have given his ideas and observations a more vivid and absorbing cinematic identity than does their readymade and prepackaged fictional incarnation. The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z
This doesn't strictly give one of Britain's best views, but the panorama across town and Tyne is absorbing. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z
Rice is also known to contain relatively high levels of arsenic, due to the crop absorbing more arsenic as it grows. Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z
Stone, for instance, is acting his surname, but there’s something soft and knowing in this guy that’s always absorbingly present. ‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Human Toll of That One-Click Buy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z
But at length, their exchanges - while absorbing enough for those who enjoy watching educated Brits struggle with their feelings - never really draw blood. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z
Ms. Huppert wondered, returning to a topic that she clearly finds absorbing. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z
Parsing the action between channels can be absorbing, but this is music that by definition reaches a higher gear in person, one more reason to note that the duo performs at SubCulture on Tuesday. Albums From Rick Ross and Keith Jarrett 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z
A social observer of invigorating insight, she reveals a knack in this absorbing comedy-drama for nuanced accounts of the travails of blue-collar men and women and the questionable choices that illuminate their complicated lives. Review | Detroit’s assembly line brought to vibrant life in ‘Skeleton Crew’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z
This absorbing, glittering release is testament to what a single piece can do for a composer, an orchestra and a conductor. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z
This absorbing account is hardly definitive, but it teaches movement building without denying the high costs paid by true believers. Review: ‘How to Change the World’ Traces the Roots of Greenpeace 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z
Equally absorbing is the relationship between Felix and the untrained Spanish nurse she takes under her wing, revealing the climate of suspicion and fear of "enemies within" that develops as the war grinds on. Fiction for teenagers – reviews 2012-12-09T00:07:40Z
His self-produced debut album, You Look Cold, betrays a childhood love of the usual singer-songwriters and an adolescence absorbing the obvious lo-fi indie. New band of the day ? No 915: Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands 2010-11-23T17:08:00Z
But the characters in “Luna Gale,” a smart and absorbing if sometimes overburdened drama, are not the kind of folks to garner media attention. Theater Review: Rebecca Gilman’s ‘Luna Gale’ Opens at Goodman Theater 2014-02-10T20:50:56Z
In the wild, air plants grow on trees and rocks, absorbing moisture through their leaves. Take It Easy with Air Plants 2014-02-03T18:20:04.376Z
It's an absorbing, emotional account of why The Boss inspires such devotion among the hundreds of thousands who flock to his live shows. What's so good about Bruce Springsteen? Tell us - and win prizes 2013-07-16T13:42:28Z
She sees how she benefits from the model-minority myth even as it traps her, absorbing her accomplishments to fuel a system she doesn’t believe in. ‘Minor Feelings’ Rescues Personal Experience From the Expectations of Others 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z
It all suggested that while absorbing the new media and personal sartorial visions, curating a closet is key to looking and feeling good. Florence and its Men’s Wear Future 2013-01-11T15:00:33Z
Messud’s literary criticism is more absorbing than her arts criticism and its appeal is proportional to a reader’s familiarity with the subject. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z
That sense of seclusion extends to the performance as well: a singer and pianist alone onstage, a listener absorbing the work in an intimate recital hall or immersed, alone, with headphones. ‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z
The novel is lyrical, absorbing, so accurate as to the ways we resist engagement and then are pulled in. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z
She and her husband have been using since they were 13 or 14, absorbing each new wave of drugs as they sweep over the region. America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z
Nonetheless, I’m going to chalk up this beautiful, absorbing, disturbing work as a win for art. Review: The Human Voice Versus the Internet in ‘Octet’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z
The Super Bowl made it abundantly clear that this is a song we’re going to be hearing quite a bit, in many different contexts, absorbing its many messages from a different angle each time. Beyoncé Sacks the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z
The Filipino director Lav Diaz works in an entirely different register in “The Woman Who Left,” a wholly absorbing four-hour opus about a wrongly convicted prisoner who’s released after 30 years. Time Traveling at the Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z
The animation used to present his story resembles low-budget anime and isn’t terribly absorbing. Television Review: Neil deGrasse Tyson Hosts ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ 2014-03-07T23:00:27Z
The filmmakers spoke to Salon about their modest, absorbing documentary. "Nudity is not indecent": "Naked Gardens" directors on baring all, even themselves, for documentary 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z
The drawing appears in an absorbing exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts devoted to the year the two artists spent in what was then the industrial heart of America. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z
To Riley, Stanfield is always absorbing the world and sending back vibrations on his unique wavelength. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z
Though everyone shines in solos, especially when the witty Ms. Dorrance plays against the group, the show is most absorbing when the whole tribe is onstage. Review: Dorrance Dance, Where Tap and Computers Intersect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z
Despite Sasha’s resentment toward her workaholic first-gen immigrant parents, she has become a version of them, absorbing their values and world view even as she has risen past them on the socioeconomic ladder. What “Always Be My Maybe” Gets About Making an Asian-American Rom-Com 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z
Toobin’s absorbing, fast-paced narrative is anchored by detailed scenes of chaos inside the Trump administration and meetings between Trump’s and Mueller’s lawyers. Why the Mueller Investigation Failed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z
If you fall under Ms. Gill’s spell, it becomes absorbing, even thrilling. The Choreographer Beth Gill Takes Her Time, and Bends It 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
Ms. Brown’s, about a former actress who commits a terrible wrong, is far more absorbing, though it stops just when the moral questions it provokes become most compelling. Review: ‘Hit the Body Alarm’ Finds Satan in a Jumpsuit 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z
“Dead Man’s Switch,” an at times absorbing documentary, demonstrates there’s nothing new under the sun in terms of stealing, whether the cash is material or virtual. ‘Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery’ Review: A Staggering Scam? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z
He also wanted an absorbing hobby for his semi-retirement that would not require much room. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z
From there, you’ll get a gander at the famous Peabody ducks while absorbing the lush ambience of this classic hotel. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z
From the start he was watching, absorbing, cataloging. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z
Everything he could turn into song, he did, brilliantly absorbing the story of Tony, a Sicilian immigrant grape farmer, and Rosabella, the much younger bride he obtains through deception, into arias, toe-tappers, recitatives and chorales. Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella,’ Sliced, Diced and None Too Pleased 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z
You, like, float through space, absorbing matter and avoiding anti-matter and stuff. From Archie Panjabi to Peggy Mitchell, this week's winners and losers 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z
If there are flaws to this beautiful and absorbing novel, they are not readily apparent. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z
In the mid-1960s, as jazz was absorbing the furious output of an emergent avant-garde, Mr. Breuker fell in with European musicians seeking to establish their own take on free improvisation. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z
It’s an absorbingly actionable handbook on creating a space for better work and more fulfilled people. Review | Brené Brown knows what makes a great leader — and most politicians wouldn’t make the cut 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z
Her absorbing, challenging work pushes us to find out. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z
Racial identity assumes tragic dimensions in this utterly absorbing movie and Moore is superb. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z
“There’s not likely to be a more meaningful, absorbing, forceful and radical performance by an American musician this year, or any year soon,” he wrote. Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’ Documentary on Netflix Showcases Coachella Performance 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z
I just kept traveling and reporting and absorbing people’s stories. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z
If anything, her conversation is as absorbing as her musical career has been. From the Big Issue: Annie Lennox gets festive 2010-12-17T11:22:03Z
The book version of “Gone Girl,” so I’ve heard, is a crime novel: an absorbing, ingenious thriller in which, halfway through, a big twist upends everything. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z
Pollock's imagined London is intense and absorbing, and The City's Son is an urban fantasy in the truest sense of the word, intent on imbuing every corner of the city with life, wonder and magic. London: fantasy's capital city 2012-11-21T11:51:44Z
As the novel opens, Pinhead is approaching the end of a monumental — and genocidal — mission: destroying all living human magicians, usurping their powers and absorbing their arcane knowledge. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z
These digressions are absorbing but all too brief, as Bascomb hurries to the next starting line. The Jewish Race-Car Driver Who Outpaced the Nazis 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z
But the music was hypnotic and evocative, suggesting an absorbing pocket universe. This Is Lupita Nyong’o. Hollywood, Please Keep Up. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z
The key difference between it and, say, Midsomer Murders was not subtitles or even the presence of non-white faces, but an absorbing concern with the details of its characters' lives. Rewind TV: Women in Love; The Killing 2011-03-27T00:05:34Z
It’s fascinating to watch and absorbing to hear. Governors Island Art Fair Fills Colonels’ Row 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z
After absorbing lecturers’ wisdom during the day, the participants gather in ad hoc teams to write and record music. Red Bull Music Academy Comes to New York 2013-04-25T22:11:06Z
But the seven-part “Roosevelts” was an absorbing and even moving work of history on another level. The best TV of 2014: ‘Americans,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Walking Dead’ and more
Jazzy dalliances and an abrupt ending didn’t ultimately detract from the concerto’s absorbing sound world. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z
Unlike that work, however, which simply bolted his politics onto his experience, Homage to Catalonia, as Richard Keeble shows, blended them together in ways that mixed into a single, absorbing story. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z
Such curious apparitions are the subject of Dr. Sacks’s absorbing new book, “Hallucinations.” Books of The Times: ‘Hallucinations,’ by Oliver Sacks 2012-11-26T22:26:01Z
We hope that you find these pieces as absorbing as we do. Sunday Reading: Spycraft 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z
Besides, for those who aren’t avid book readers, “Hamilton” offers a musically irresistible alternative for absorbing American history. 7 Shows for President Trump to Watch on His Vacation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
Edward Wilson-Lee, professor of medieval literature at Cambridge University’s Sydney Sussex College, relates all this and more in the absorbing, adventure-packed opening section of “The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books.” Review | The story of Christopher Columbus’s son, the ultimate completist 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z
The unnamed narrator of Zachary Lazar’s absorbing and prismatic new novel, “Vengeance,” would surely confirm this sentiment. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z
But their latest, The Testament of Mary — the Virgin Mary, in a monologue imagined by Irish novelist Colm Toibin — is both an absorbing piece of theater and a challenging work of theological inquiry. Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway 2013-04-25T09:45:35Z
Two of them — Harry and Stella — are the focus of Ms. Wang’s astute and absorbing film. Review: ‘Maineland’ Considers America With Help From Chinese Students 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
He’s decided on a different sort of drama, a territory of intrigue and tricks, entirely absorbing, with other sources of suspense. In His New Book, a War Novelist Turns to More Intimate Battles 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z
The Seattle dancers have spent months absorbing the style, though not yet with universal success: a few are unsure when it comes to mime. Dance Review: At 170, a Venerable Ballet Returns to Its (Quicker) Roots 2011-06-06T23:09:32Z
The San Francisco Arts Commission contributed an extra $350,000 in response to inflation, and the artist is absorbing other cost overruns himself. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z
Dinko's story keeps the novel moving, but it's the cops who bring it to absorbing, riveting life, together with Wambaugh's gripping, convincing vision of the melting pot of cultures that is LA. Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh – review 2012-12-16T00:05:02Z
Our critic Roberta Smith said it is a “delightful, absorbing exhibition” that leaves you wanting more. Art for the Holidays: A New York Visitors’ Guide 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z
It's nothing new, according to Stephen Nissenbaum, author of "The Battle for Christmas," an absorbing 1996 cultural history of the holiday. O'Reilly strikes back against 'War on Christmas' 2012-12-12T16:52:12Z
The resulting narrative is rich and absorbing — as evocative and engrossing as a novel. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z
A writer with such credentials might be expected to bring a different perspective to the timeworn tale of the Last Stand, and Philbrick does so in this absorbing account. 'The Last Stand': An end for Custer, Sitting Bull and a way of life 2010-05-12T23:19:00Z
Rip-off, of course, is an insulting word to apply to something as absorbingly entertaining as “Stranger Things 2,” the hotly anticipated sequel to Netflix’s rapturously retro hit miniseries “Stranger Things.” Review | It’s the era of the homage and the satisfying ‘Stranger Things’ is the prototype 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z
Related: Brooklyn review – Saoirse Ronan shines in a heartfelt and absorbing adaptation She said in an industry that churned out films with two-dimensional characters “sadly too many of those roles are for women.” Brooklyn producers: 'A lot of the untold stories are female' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z
A central figure in the book, and one of the most absorbing characters of the postwar era, is Stewart Brand. The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z
However, absorbing the blows, the micro- and macro-aggressions, keeping your head down and working hard, not reacting: these do not empower me. My mother and I haven't talked about the Atlanta spa attacks 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z
It’s Americana unvarnished and, because of that, as absorbing as it is respectful. ‘Little Hope Was Arson,’ a Documentary of Texas and Religion 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
While often affecting and absorbing, the film proves intellectually and contextually light. 'Before You Know It' reveals little about gay seniors 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
Facing the devastating missteps of this country can feel like admitting too much wrongness, or it can feel like absorbing too much pain. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z
Part of absorbing the story is wondering what it means, and also about its place on the reality-fantasy continuum. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z
The best of the bunch, the game Myst and its sequels, could be gorgeous and absorbing, but not ever truly moving the way a novel or dramatic work can be. An adventure for the iPad 2012-07-25T19:27:00Z
Like writing, audio editing is utterly absorbing; but it’s also more physical, weirdly. Get with the programme: how to make an audio show 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z
This absorbing book gathers pace, and relevance, as it goes along – an important contribution to the annals of conservative thought. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z
Which is a real shame, because Good Cop was great – an absorbing, gritty, intelligent, character-based police drama, about as near as we get in this country to what they do so well in Scandinavia. TV review: Merlin; Good Cop; The Thick Of It 2012-10-14T13:00:00Z
And the secret of winning Colbert's undying affection, aside from creating an absorbing bit of documentary reportage, was simple flattery. Stephen Colbert names 'Serial's' Sarah Koenig his 'favorite guest of all time' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z
In an early review, The Hollywood Reporter trade publication called Jones's film "an absorbing, melancholy look at the hard lot of women in the Old West". At Cannes, Tommy Lee Jones turns the western on its head 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z
You're absorbing it, and it will affect you later on when you understand certain things. Chadwick Boseman learns James Brown's moves and motivations 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
Selingo challenges the facade of meritocracy in his absorbing examination of America’s obsession with getting into college. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z
Sometimes new clothes are not as absorbing as the old, the new designers not quite as free in their skin as the older generation. Fashion Review: At C?line, a Tough Follow-Up 2010-03-08T04:45:00Z
Since 2000, he has been creating abstract photographs in which he beams colored light on photoreceptive paper in the darkroom, absorbing contaminating dirt and mechanical glitches into what are essentially experiments in a chemistry lab. Wolfgang Tillmans Takes Pictures of Modern Life, Backlit by the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z
The books — which began with “The Magicians,” in 2009, and just wrapped up  this month with “The Magician’s Land” — are massively absorbing, very funny, occasionally heartbreaking. Why does the Magicians trilogy keep raping and killing off its best characters? 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z
She spent time on both sides of the border absorbing the atmosphere. Elizabeth Pena dies at 55; actress in 'The Incredibles,' 'La Bamba' 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z
Now, into that ancient battle — reinvigorated in our own era by the #MeToo movement — comes an absorbing new novel by Madeline Miller called “Circe.” Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z
It is “smart and knowing and absorbing,” our reviewer Kurt Andersen writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z
“There are voices from minorities often unheard, stories that are fresh, bold and absorbing,” said Margaret Busby, the chair of the judges, in a statement. Hilary Mantel, Kiley Reid, Anne Tyler in Running for Booker Prize 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z
An area of utilitarian grass has become an absorbing garden space and, by the way, a better place for the trees because turf and hardwoods have different watering and fertilizing needs. Fronds with benefits: A guide to ferns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z
After three seasons, it felt as if we’d arrived at a natural end for “The Affair,” Showtime’s absorbing psychological drama about relationships and conflicting viewpoints. Review | ‘The Affair’ could have ended last season. Happily (and unhappily), it goes on. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z
Novels have always been good at absorbing and recycling, taking plots and devices from other genres and finding new uses for them. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z
Creative Growth is an absorbing subject in itself. Judith Scott’s Enigmatic Sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z
It also played a crucial role in the development of international law, and it was a crucible for Israel, a young state still absorbing, with tensions, the arrival of European Jews. A Mossad Show Heavy on Spycraft Recounts Eichmann’s Capture 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z
He questioned the convention of the time that confined musical statements or phrases to four measures, arguing that listeners were perfectly capable of absorbing ideas that took five or six bars to express. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z
They remain crisp while absorbing the flavor of the brine. How to go from green Kirbys to deli-style sour pickles in 3 days 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z
This warm, languid performance proved absorbing enough for many to ignore the returning drizzle. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Central Park 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z
Every visit was a little masterclass, seeing how the chorus performs, where singers need to stand, absorbing information about how the process works. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z
One of the absorbing undercurrents in the book is the Helm family’s mixed feelings for their adopted country and culture. ‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America 2013-03-27T22:26:54Z
Confectioners' sugar often contains anticaking agents, like cornstarch, to prevent the sugar from absorbing moisture and clumping. This chocolate chip cookie isn't crispy or chewy — it's better 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z
By absorbing the white of India’s male wardrobe and cutting cotton into jackets and tunics, the designer created a canvas for color: dresses in blue jacquard or layered with black lace. A Multicolor Revolution 2012-09-12T16:37:47Z
Her performance is liveliest when Agnes’s vitriol has a clear target in Claire, who, in the text, is more recklessly wild and absorbing. Review: Tipping the Scales in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z
Beecher is unquestionably talented but seems, despite years of experience, still to be at a stage of absorbing influences. Review | Small opera plus big ideas make, this weekend, for a misfit 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z
A third proposal entailed building a network of neighborhood-scale wetlands on disused tracts across the city; together they would form a natural buffer, absorbing wastewater and runoff before they reached the river. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z
Glew is an amusing screen presence, and his story, while unquestionably trivial, has some of the absorbing, low-stakes whimsy of a nice magazine feature. ‘The Pez Outlaw’ Review: Sweet and Lowdown 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z
On the other side sits a Europe that failed to realize the Russian threat, or stop it from absorbing Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States and beyond. An Exiled Theater With a Warning for Europe 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z
This is where the performance clicks, with Gibson absorbing the invective, digesting it slowly, processing and sending cultural venom back as wisecrack or frank truth. Review | ‘Turn Me Loose’ pays homage to Dick Gregory 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z
Few of Packer's characters are easily categorised as Democrats or Republicans, hopeful or despairing, or winners or losers, which helps make their stories absorbing. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z
It’s good that Theater Ballet will revive this work in its May season; the London-based Rambert Dance Company production — the best I’ve ever seen — took several months before it became poetically absorbing. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z
Well meaning though it is, “Precious Caterpillar” is sometimes hard to follow, and only the rare audience member will find it absorbing. ‘Precious Caterpillar’ Traces Journey of Tibetan Harvesters 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z
Toss the yoghurt mix into the pasta and set aside for a minute or two; the pasta will keep absorbing moisture from the sauce. The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for chicken dumplings, and tagliatelle with blue cheese 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z
This absorbing book suggests that even the best of intentions, and the best of spies, aren't enough to bridge the chasms in the Middle East. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z
It’s a relentless, absorbing series of missteps, smothered dreams and humiliations. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z
This is absorbing history that illuminates — initiates, in fact — an era of American expansionism and economic domination. Television Review: Ric Burns Looks at the History of American Whaling 2010-05-09T22:27:00Z
It is the perfect Frears storm of great actors, smart script and absorbing drama. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z
The 12 Cellos of the Berlin Philharmonic have been performing alone for nearly four decades, and their playing was absorbing to any age. Berlin Philharmonic residency ? review 2011-02-21T00:54:14Z
It's a quietly absorbing film centred around two very reticent central characters: Keaton's depressed hitman and Kelly Macdonald's shy office worker with a mysterious past. Film review: The Merry Gentleman 2010-04-01T22:15:00Z
It's probably a sentiment that would raise a wry, bushy eyebrow from Nim himself, the chimpanzee subject of Academy Award-winning James Marsh's absorbing return to the Sundance film festival. Project Nim: we are the real chumps in this chimp's story 2011-01-21T11:00:10Z
“After I had a chance to really start absorbing it, I was like, ‘OK, I hear it. The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z
This makes the techniques they did use all the more effective, absorbing the default Hollywood narrative style with more conviction. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z
More than two centuries after the ratification of the Constitution, the historian Joseph J. Ellis writes in his absorbing new book, “The Quartet,” “a mystic haze has formed” around that document. Review: ‘The Quartet,’ by Joseph Ellis, Details the Constitution’s Gang of Four 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z
“Last Stories”shows flashes of Vollmann’s estimable talent, but the bulk of this long book lacks the drive of historical imperative or an absorbing subject. Voyage-tales collection blends atypical narrative, history
In its third season, “OITNB” hit a delayed sophomore slump — still solid, but struggling to churn out fresh plot developments, and settling on some that just weren’t as absorbing. ‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns, darker and more relevant than ever 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z
Their moral sense makes this a consistently honorable play, which wouldn’t matter if it weren’t absorbingly believable moment to moment. Review | Warmhearted ‘Curve of Departure’ hits Studio’s strike zone 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z
As a kid I poured over books and magazines in the hope of absorbing the necessary skills to land such a cool career. “She is blonde but dark at the roots”: Vanity Fair’s Margot Robbie profile is a masterclass in how not to write about famous women 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
"Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition" is an unusually absorbing show. Making photos, not taking them; the distinction in 'Perfect Likeness' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z
I imagine the most absorbing music for me would be the music of the desert island itself. Music Review: John Luther Adams ?songbirdsongs? by Le Train Bleu - Review 2011-11-27T22:40:08Z
Up on the stage, the more dominant and absorbing narrative unfolds in reverse chronological order. This dramatic ‘Equation’ doesn’t quite add up 2014-01-30T21:01:10Z
He would study each issue from first page to last, absorbing the latest news of Apple products, upgrades and software, and presenting his own opinions on a blog which he had recently started. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z
Another young customer, Henry Garfield, spent hours flipping through records and absorbing Skip’s wisdom about rare pressings of punk singles and the virtues of colored vinyl. ‘Skip, we love you’: Remembering a pillar of D.C.’s punk scene 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z
Carol Morley’s entirely absorbing new film is about a mysterious outbreak of mass hysterical fainting at a girls’ school in the late 1960s. The Falling review – Carol Morley's masterly followup to Dreams of a Life 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z
Though it hasn't the sweep to be greater than the sum of its parts, the movie offers an absorbing mix of melodrama and historical detail. 'The Golden Era' a 'Reds'-like tale of Chinese novelist Xiao Hong 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z
The presentation of blues, rock, soul, and jazz is big, absorbing influences from BB King’s live records, the Allman Brothers Band, and Joe Cocker and Leon Russell’s “Mad Dog and Englishmen.” The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z
It's a brilliant show, one of the few so absorbing that I don't multi-task while watching it. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z
Our nation, and its foreign policy, are still only just absorbing it all. 9 Necessary films about 9/11 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z
With a stipend from the landgrave, Schütz spent three years there absorbing Italian musical styles and traditions, and would later return to work with Monteverdi. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z
Beyond the coup of witnessing that phone call, Roher has assembled a tense and absorbing look at Navalny and his inner circle. ‘Navalny’ Review: Speaking Truth to Power in a Corrupt System 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z
I succeeded on both counts, absorbing lessons about New Mexico without ever encountering more than 10 people at each site. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z
Its dialogue, characterisation, pacing and acting are far more textured and absorbing, and for 90 minutes the film held the viewer in an attention headlock that seldom relaxed its grip. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z
“Perspective. Light. All these things I memorize. Barcelona is something I’ve been absorbing all my life. I don’t need a map.” The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z
He was still so passionate about learning and absorbing new influences. Rob Sheffield: “What I love most about David Bowie is that he celebrated the romance of being a fan.” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z
What Dowland would have made of it is anyone's guess, but it's an absorbing listen. Christian Muthspiel 4: Seaven Teares – review 2013-05-18T23:05:09Z
“The State Department, my home of 30-plus years, was kicking me to the curb,” Yovanovitch writes in her absorbing new memoir, “Lessons From the Edge.” In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z
As with all really good music, however, it's a piece whose detail is endlessly absorbing but whose emotional impact is immediate and impossible to resist. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z
I was absorbing the rhythms of the episodic structure and learning what it meant to sustain rather than simply create a world. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z
Many paintings depicted scenes from Hindu epics I knew nothing about; I struggled to understand them but still found their elegant floral style absorbing. Finding the Other, Cheaper Side of Bali 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z
A decade after 9/11, Amy Waldman’s nervy and absorbing new novel, “The Submission,” tackles the aftermath of such a terrorist attack head-on. Books of The Times: The Right Architect With the Wrong Name 2011-08-15T22:30:12Z
Were someone to open it they would find an entry like this: "accommodating, disinclination, drinking, sipping, apportioning, weighing, calibrating, calculating, assessing, absorbing, ingesting, inspire, aduce?" David Bezmozgis: My desktop 2013-05-21T11:30:02Z
The three of us sat, absorbing, searching for normal. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z
Mr. Dural grew up in southwestern Louisiana, absorbing the vibrant, accordion-based folk music that was part of his Creole heritage. Stanley Dural Jr., who popularized zydeco music as Buckwheat Zydeco, dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z
It's just something that is meant to be absorbing. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z
But then I got to New York six months later, closed the door and I was by myself and I realized immediately I was not done absorbing this loss. Adam Scott Channeled Personal Grief into ‘Severance’ 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z
Mr. Woolf, the author of “Amber Revolution,” an absorbing look at the orange wine genre, is a genial host with a knack for selecting the best and more representative stories. The Year’s Best Wine Books 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
“You still have to have an absorbing interest in life, something to do to make you feel alive.” G.D. Spradlin, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 90 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z
“Magnificent,” our reviewer, Marjorie Ingall, called this absorbing, elegant novel about a young medieval gentlewoman on the run from an obsessed friar who wants to burn her at the stake for heresy. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
The walking — and thinking and listening and absorbing — is the main thing. David Sedaris is 60 and ready to look back — again 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z
But so are playfulness, curiosity and absorbing attentiveness. Regina King Has So Many Stories to Tell 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z
Matt Wolf’s absorbing documentary “Spaceship Earth” won’t be much of a comfort, alas. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in May 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z
Stritch’s tumultuous life and career make an absorbing story, which Jacobs tells briskly and readably. Review | Elaine Stritch biography takes a gossipy, once-over-lightly approach 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z
Their immediately identifiable palette of green, red and yellow provides some visual relief from the preceding gleam and glitter — a great way to end an absorbing show. Review | ‘Black Panther’ meets history, and things get complicated 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z
That is the geography explored in Mr. Oliver’s utterly absorbing and unexpectedly moving “Helen & Edgar,” at Theater 80 in the East Village. Theater Review: ‘Helen & Edgar,’ Edgar Oliver’s Solo Show, at Theater 80 2012-10-12T22:43:25Z
Despite that, or maybe because of it, “Gabriel” is unexpectedly absorbing. Review: ‘Gabriel’ Stars Rory Culkin as a Young Man With Mental Illness 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z
The archbishop's book is an absorbing critical account of Dostoevsky's work which uses his real understanding of how Christian ideas shaped Dostoevsky's world and people. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z
Yet they’re hard to grasp on a single viewing: more immediately striking as authoritative exercises in style than as absorbing worlds to inhabit. New York City Ballet’s Very 21st-Century Steps 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z
But piece by piece this is absorbing stuff, and its shared organicism is cohesive. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z
Part thriller, part psychological fantasy and part political-philosophical tract, it's totally absorbing. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z
A neurosurgeon’s frank and absorbing account combines biography, descriptions of operations and considerations of policy. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z
Not only do their words bring individual images to life; but they also add up to an absorbing narrative of a place and an era. Art Review: A California ‘State of Mind,’ Circa 1970, at Bronx Museum 2013-07-11T19:19:47Z
The author’s absorbing, meticulously detailed description of her early life with her eight siblings in Macau, and later episodes in Thailand, Hong Kong, the U.S. and Kazakhstan, recall both “The Glass Castle” and “Educated.” Review | Faith Jones’s memoir of living in cult — and leaving it — is a powerful tale of resilience 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z
And the playing on offer was simply too vibrant and absorbing to allow for drowsiness, blazing heat outdoors notwithstanding. Music Review: At Avery Fisher, Philharmonic?s Gently Scrambled Opera 2010-07-07T22:43:00Z
The rising arc of the second season is Logan frothing to retain control of his media conglomerate, Waystar Royco, by absorbing another media company into his behemoth. The Second Season of “Succession” Digs Into the Characters’ Self-Loathing 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z
Those portraits are the subject of “Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture,” an absorbing survey at the Frick Collection that also demonstrates his unending lightness of being. Van Dyck at the Frick, Documenting Aristocracy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z
Even the main point of the Waltz of the Flowers is primarily just fun — with busy, silly male bees pollinating happy, silly, jubilant female flowers — though arranged with absorbing complexity. Dance Review: A ?Nutcracker? Sprouts Alter Egos 2010-12-24T22:30:03Z
The new film’s twists and turns are strongly, if fleetingly, absorbing—even if Director X delivers them in a mainly decorative mode that merely conveys them without expanding them. “Superfly,” Reviewed: A Classic Remade for a Gun-Mad Age 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z
Susan Meissner’s latest novel is an absorbing, cleverly plotted historical tale of perfidy and pluck. Review | Best audiobooks to listen to now 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z
The result, as Robert Crawford contends in his absorbing and adventurous book, was that St Andrews became the world's first town to be thoroughly documented by photography. The Beginning and the End of the World: St Andrews, Scandal and the Birth of Photography by Robert Crawford ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z
Why else is the past so absorbing, as it stretches into an implausible distance where I was once present, while the actual here and now will clearly never live up to the precedents? Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z
Visually precise and politically amorphous, the absorbing documentary "Abendland" opens with a self-reflexive image of a surveillance camera perched over a green field. 'Abendland': Using Europe at night to illuminate idea of nationalism 2012-08-30T20:39:03Z
As Tom Kizzia tells in his absorbing new book, Hale came from “the top echelons of Texas society” in Fort Worth. ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’: in Alaska, a patriarch runs amok 2013-08-01T22:57:59Z
Isis, by contrast, has spent all this time stalking vermin and lying round in drafty hallways and wagging her tail on cue – not to mention absorbing and filtering the human toxins of longing, loneliness, rage. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Prayers for Isis 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z
Learning to play jazz guitar while absorbing folk and world music on Folkways — plus listening to more and more rock — the foundation of her intuitive approach to cello was forming. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z
In moments like these, absorbing a dramatized reminder of why they hate us regardless of what we drive, drink or wear maybe the last experience any of us needs. "Coastal Elites" is a noble attempt to clap back at Trump's America in the time of quarantine 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z
“Style,” she once said, “gets absorbed really fast by culture, basically by absorbing the formal elements or the structure and then subverting the content.” Art Review: Gretchen Bender’s Work Is Displayed at the Kitchen 2013-09-05T23:02:42Z
By absorbing the routine aspects of our jobs, optimists argue, machines are freeing us up for more creative activities Kaplan isn’t alone in this belief. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z
If you enjoyed AD Miller's Snowdrops – another absorbing study in elastic morality – give this a go. Thrillers: review roundup 2012-06-08T21:55:07Z
"The narrative unfolds and you learn about her ordeal as she works with her therapist," Dickey writes, calling "Still Missing" "an assured and absorbing first book." Summer reading list: 7 super mysteries and thrillers 2011-06-24T21:26:07Z
Kondo’s soundtrack features only three minutes of original music, and yet it’s totally absorbing, precise, and economical, spanning joy and pain, hunched-back nerves and blissful tranquility. How Video Games Changed Popular Music 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z
The song itself is an internal monologue of self-loathing and self-pity, filled with the sorts of painful, raw observations accrued from absorbing a lifetime of listening to what others say about you. Not anyone’s “crazy bitch”: Smashing the “Fatal Attraction” clichés of the “female breakdown” 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z
The man made for good copy and, based on Michael Shnayerson’s fast-paced and absorbing biography in the Jewish Lives series, he still does. Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z
It’s a lovely way to catch some holiday cheer — with photos as absorbing as the text. 15 feel-good books guaranteed to lift your spirits 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z
But, in the end, it’s a sturdy enough backdrop for this fragile and finally rather absorbing experiment. Angelina Jolie-Pitt's By the Sea: actually an arthouse contender 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z
The art world is extremely good at absorbing its critics. Hans Haacke Gets Establishment Nod of Approval 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z
Hardy is transfixing as a man desperate to keep the various spheres of his life from spinning out of control; the movie itself is a daring, utterly absorbing exercise in real-time storytelling. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more
But the greatest accomplishment of this absorbing novel is its capacious understanding of the competing values these folks hold. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z
The Daily Mail's Victoria Moore agreed, calling the novel "thoroughly absorbing and beautifully written". Book reviews roundup: The Silence of Animals, Instructions for a Heatwave and Calcutta: Two years in the City 2013-03-01T16:01:01Z
I'm reminded of what DH Lawrence wrote in a poem: "There is no point in work/Unless it absorbs you/Like an absorbing game." Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please' 2013-06-16T18:00:06Z
Nothing matches it for emotional impact, although Four Black Sheep and Leave Behind are absorbing in their glassy contemplation of death. Martha Wainwright: Come Home to Mama – review 2012-10-11T21:45:01Z
And to spend hours watching them, as I have done recently, is both absorbing and weirdly nostalgic. When Fashion TV Becomes an Anthropological Treasure 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z
The understanding was Mr. Copping would spend some unspecified time working alongside Mr. de la Renta and absorbing his ethos, and at some point after that, he would take over. Keeping the Oscar de la Renta Name Alive 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z
It was “fascinating — not a great or glorious part, but completely absorbing,” she said. Juliette Binoche's Tuscan Romance 2010-05-17T12:00:00Z
Eight people volunteered to spend two years in its confines: Matt Wolf’s slick, absorbing documentary charts the fallout of a project that was equal parts worthy eco-hippie research, peculiar cult and Big Brother prototype. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z
The latest installment, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, was released recently in North America by Nintendo and is the most absorbing, fully realized title in the franchise yet. Video Game Review: A Pair of Travelers, Saving London Puzzle by Puzzle 2010-09-19T22:01:00Z
Her large cast mixes factual and fictional characters, who interact in a complex and absorbing series of plotlines. Tides of War by Stella Tillyard – review 2012-06-19T07:00:02Z
Beethoven’s extremes — the consummate Classicism of the First, and the controlled excess of the Ninth — were absorbing but imperfect in this reading. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z
It is another artificial convention, but one that makes Joe such an effective and absorbing movie. Joe review – these woods are lovely, dark and deep 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z
Swanson’s easy writing style and skill at pacing propel a plot that is as absorbing as it is unlikely. They Hooked Up at Her Bachelorette Party. Now He’s Stalking Her. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z
Watching it felt more like watching a movie, immersive and absorbing, yet easily the most technically sophisticated live dance production I’ve seen since theaters closed. Live, Urgent, but With a Slightly Recycled Feel 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z
The full story slowly comes into focus, but the absorbing "Broker" never feels slow. "Broker" is the absorbing slow-burn chase film with a baby, a cop and a makeshift family of liars 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z
"As a gallimaufry of the funny, technical-scientific and deadly earnest, Red Plenty ranks as one of the strangest books ever written on the Soviet Union . . . an eccentric delight; absorbing, pleasingly digressive and superbly written." Critical eye 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z
Sure, the therapeutic hand-holding business could go, but the exhibition itself is absorbing every step of the way. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z
Writer/director Daniel Roby's absorbing film, inspired by actual events, toggles back and forth in time as the events leading up to Léger's imprisonment and Victor's investigation unfold. Why Josh Hartnett became addicted to making indie films: "It just feels more honest" 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z
We tend not to regard "just doing stuff" as acting – but perhaps making it all so absorbing is actually the hallmark of a great actor. Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared' 2012-07-04T17:36:06Z
In some cases, the little particulars are so absorbing that we might ignore what the interviewee is actually saying. ‘Dead Souls’ Review: Forgotten Victims of Mao’s Camps Speak 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as a psychologically damaged war veteran and former FBI agent turned private mercenary, it is an absorbing meditation on a tortured soul that poses as a violent action thriller. The film world is hard for women directors 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z
I thought we can explore that in a really organic way because Kublai Khan was so interested in bringing the treasures of China into his empire and absorbing it into his culture. Marco Polo brings Mongol empire to Netflix 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z
That so many people, starkly divided over the question of whether crimes had been committed, come off as decent and appealing makes this book an absorbing read. Books of The Times: ‘Five Days at Memorial,’ by Sheri Fink 2013-09-03T21:27:44Z
I don't see that as overthinking the story but rather processing it, absorbing it. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z
But Kim pours on less syrup than the norm, and for most of its run, “Dr. Brain” is a classy and absorbing entertainment. Review: ‘Dr. Brain,’ Your New South Korean TV Crush 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z
But no matter how elaborate the design or absorbing the action, they will, as Ms. Ogawa’s Nina suggests, leave us “always looking for something that is not there.” Review: In ‘Ludic Proxy,’ a Blur of Actual and Virtual Reality 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z
In quantity, they were absorbing and unsettling in equal measure. Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z
He thinks the turtles may still be absorbing these toxins from the river. How clean is the Bronx River? Snapping turtles help scientists figure it out. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z
What he got in the photograph, which Steichen made by joining two negatives, was a classic example of photography manipulating and absorbing sculpture. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z
After absorbing that history, you can hike to the forests in search of the island’s African Green Vervet monkeys. 5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z
Hollinghurst writes long, absorbing, much-peopled novels that display a masterly grasp of psychological processes and a prickling awareness of minute betrayals and inarticulate desires. In Alan Hollinghurst’s Latest, a Hazy Sex Scandal Looms Over Many Lives 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z
They can be damaged easily, not only by something like a fire in the Visser apartments, but by absorbing moisture, by being placed near a magnet, by being left too long in a car. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z
Mr. Jarreau sang gospel in church and doo-wop on street corners, absorbing the many musical styles of his melting-pot home town. Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z
It wasn’t clear how well Mr. Johnston was absorbing the loss. Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z
Mr. Gilroy’s drama shuttles between the overdetermined and the absorbing; it is at its strongest in the first act, when character and battle lines are being drawn. | 'The Subject Was Roses': At Pearl Theater, a Son Home From War 2010-04-26T22:18:00Z
But the particular years recounted in this essential, absorbing and mostly sprightly history went a long way in shaping the pulsating city we know. The 20 Years That Made New York City 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z
Half a century later the descriptive precision is not shocking but absorbing. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z
After the long, absorbing account of their life on the margins, the Tillermans’ happy ending feels earned. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z
This book is “a daughter’s gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
“Hereditary” is a terrifically absorbing puzzle until the moment you solve it, when its disparate elements coalesce into a dispiritingly familiar picture. Review: In ‘Hereditary,’ the Horror is Slow-Cooked and Homemade 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z
Even the suit worn by Chadwick Boseman’s title character is a metaphor, absorbing all the blows an opponent can hurl at it before bouncing them back with redoubled strength. Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z
As absorbing as it is to look at, it does not elicit the sense of uncanny familiarity that the painted shields do. Art In Review: ‘ANIMATED BY SPIRITS’: ‘Shields of New Guinea’ 2012-06-21T22:12:07Z
The dissimilarity means that there is an insistent and absorbing tension to their exchanges, which are neither reticent nor flowery. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z
But this band’s live sets couldn’t come from a further place: they cycle through absorbing, soothing riffs that mesh wonderfully with the lead singer Kevin Parker’s hypnotic nasal drone. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
An absorbing study of politics at its most mundane, and most important. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z
The heroine, Aurora — played by five ballerinas in California — is entirely absorbing in her dances but builds no huge excitement. Review: Ratmansky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Has Premiere in California 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z
“Supreme is the coolest thing, in a way, to the narrator—you know, and to me—and he goes on the trip in the hopes of absorbing it, through, like, osmosis,” he said. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z
The reaction shot of him in his car, absorbing the consequences of his theft is Jonathan Banks at his finest. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z
He is willing to hold onto the restaurant for 10 years without needing to make a dime off it, but he errs in believing that Lara will be as sanguine about absorbing the blows. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: Bobby the Profiteer 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z
But for me the performing in “Come Fly Away” isn’t either absorbing or convincing. Isherwood and Macaulay Spar Over ?Come Fly Away? 2010-03-31T22:26:00Z
Mile after mile they stand — or, rather, move — between us and the pavement, absorbing tremendous force and impact. How runners can keep their feet happy
He appears, for a rare instant, to be absorbing the gravity and daunting nature of the office he had been elected to hold. Donald Trump, Hiding in Plain Sight 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z
He’s luminous, radiant in the act of looking and absorbing. They look, we look; people's gaze is the focus in Dan McCleary works 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z
In this absorbing exercise in literary chutzpah, Silva brings his Israeli spymaster Gabriel Allon back again for more bloodletting and realpolitik chicanery on behalf of Israel and the Western Alliance. Review | Looking for a summer thriller? Here are 9 picks for your beach bag. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z
This book is the largest in the absorbing “My Struggle” series, but curiously it’s the runt of the litter. At the Close of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ a Magician Loses His Touch 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who directs “Skeleton Crew” and also directed “Paradise Blue” at Williamstown last summer, spoke admiringly of such richly textured speech and of Ms. Morisseau’s ability to create complicated and absorbing characters. Playwright Dominique Morisseau Can’t Forget the Motor City 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z
The British Royal Ballet’s “Giselle” in January, for instance, was absorbing even when flawed; the production, first staged in the 1980s, looks better on screen than it does live. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z
In recent years, there has been a flurry of exhibitions paying tribute to female art dealers, perhaps most ambitiously at the Jewish Museum, where Edith Halpert was the subject of an absorbing show in 2019. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z
“Spiral” may be an unusually tense, granular and absorbing cop show, but it’s still a cop show. ‘Spiral’ Review: A Peerless Policier Takes On Its Final Case 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z
“Fire at Sea” is impressionistic and intensely absorbing. ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z
The Emperor of Lies is a novel about heart-wrenching suffering and extraordinary evil, transformed by Sem-Sandberg's talents into an irresistible work of fiction, absorbing from first page to last. The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z
It’s an absorbing cover-to-cover read, no surprise considering the artist’s roots in literature. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
Certainly narratives do not exist in cinema alone – from verbal accounts to written articles, they are our way of absorbing and processing information. Real-life terror: is it exploitative to use human suffering for cinematic thrills? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z
Anytime of the day, I enjoy choosing a cafe, sinking deep into my chair, and absorbing the gorgeously intact buildings around me. Krakow: The heart and soul of Poland 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z
This is a classic Brechtian performance, one in which we relish the actor's technique while absorbing the points it is making. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z
Many were especially wary of Penguin Random House — already by far the largest publisher in the United States — getting even bigger by absorbing a rival. A Huge Merger’s Collapse Breaks a Pattern of Consolidation in Publishing 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z
Most of the 10 entries in this edition are absorbing; only a few are underwhelming. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z
We complain today that the Internet has robbed us of privacy, but this richly absorbing work of time travel demonstrates that our ancestors never had it in the first place. "The Princess of Montpensier": A delicious French bodice-ripper 2011-04-09T01:01:00Z
Apparently, he would drive all over the region, reading in his car all the latest medical studies and absorbing all the latest research. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z
Equally absorbing, but more somber, is “The House on the Hill,” Amy E. Witting’s heartbreaking story about loss and friendship. Review | Shepherdstown theater festival features world premieres and top notch acting 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z
An absorbing if uneven work, provides testimony to the high human drama of Caribbean slave trafficking and the misery endured by millions in the pursuit of sweetness. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z
Greenidge takes this tale from Boston headlines and spins an absorbing study of neglected kids at dangerous loose ends. ‘Milk Like Sugar’ is the cream of this week’s crop of class-themed plays 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z
“Fifteen years ago, travelers would be looking around and reflecting and absorbing,” she said. Secret to a Great Trip: Ditch the Devices 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z
An absorbing performance to end an evening of two halves. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-02-11T18:44:00Z
“As a journalism drama,” I earlier reviewed, “it’s as absorbing as ‘Spotlight’ and more sober than ‘All the President’s Men.’ New this Week: ‘Tina,’ ‘Runaway Bunny’ & ‘City on a Hill’ 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z
Heat-Moon visited small towns like Subtle, Ky., and Scratch Ankle, Alaska, absorbing local color and wisdom. Time for a Literary Road Trip 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z
Few of the 1966 works have been shown in recent years, so they offer an absorbing foundation for what follows. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z
A whole day of "getting down" is tiring though, so no wonder buzz-act-of-the-day Grimes rams the Village Mentality tent with her absorbing throbstep squeals, accompanied by a dancer dressed like a chicken gimp. Field Day – review 2012-06-03T15:48:36Z
James — Kent’s book is a delightful reminder that absorbing and clever crime novels still exist. ‘The Crooked House’ review: A murder most British 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z
Rather than dealing with uncomfortable life problems, some people avoid them by absorbing themselves in other activities, leading to an unhelpful cycle where the distractions end up maintaining the problems because they're never confronted. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z
“The Outsider” is dark — visually, emotionally — but absorbing, patient with both its misery and its misdirection. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z
Hinderaker has an eye for inside information, for art and craft, and for characters who lose themselves in the absorbing calling of their professions. Review | Dramatic tricks abound in new ‘Magic Play’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z
But Fish opposed the plan because it meant absorbing “the Latin race.” Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z
Even with sections recalling both “The Crucible” and an “Afterschool Special,” it still fashions a story that’s fairly fresh and often absorbing. Review: ‘The Sisterhood of Night,’ a Dark Tale of Small-Town Hysteria 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z
This “absorbing” biography of the first Black American fighter pilot “reads like a picaresque novel,” our reviewer, Thomas E. Ricks, noted. New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z
But viewers with an interest in the subject matter might still find the movie absorbing. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘American Masters: Roberta Flack’ 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z
What are they processing, absorbing and sacrificing for audiences? Being a pop star once meant baring skin — now, for some artists, it’s all about emotional stripping 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z
After spending six years absorbing modernity in Paris, the young artist landed in New York in 1914, his crossing on the Lusitania financed by Helena Rubinstein, a client. A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z
Black's absorbing collection is filled with disabilities, illnesses and untimely death, but her stories are invested with such life that the many afflictions they catalogue feel natural, not contrived. A quick look at 2010 in short stories 2010-12-30T09:00:05Z
Each frame is an absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slice of ethnographic theater, starring a Midwestern tribe of scuffed and diapered blonds. Julie Blackmon's absorbing photography of everyday Midwestern life — or is it? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z
In 1962 he went to New York, where he spent eight months absorbing new art, especially Pop, and then went on to Paris, later visiting Spain. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z
An absorbing, resonant, at times near majestic whodunit, “Illustrious Corpses” is the Italian analog to Watergate-era conspiracy thrillers like “The Parallax View” and “The Conversation.” ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z
During the course of 15 absorbing minutes, the music progressed through a series of variation-like sections characterized by vivid textures and colors perfectly idiomatic to the instruments, all the while maintaining cohesive momentum. ‘Swan Song’ impresses as a strikingly original work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z
Mr. Yurick had read widely in his youth, absorbing Proust, Camus and Classic Comics. Sol Yurick, Novelist, Dies at 87 2013-01-09T15:49:27Z
If all that macho posturing leaves you hungry for some memorable female-driven narratives, look no further than “Richelieu” and “Cold Copy,” two absorbing dramas in different registers. The Tribeca Festival Has a Story to Tell 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z
The dancers, here as throughout the evening, performed with an absorbing clarity and focus. Dance Review: Miro Magloire and His New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2012-02-13T22:39:23Z
Such ambiguity only makes the film that more absorbing and visceral to experience. "Kingdom of Silence": A wrenching look at how Jamal Khashoggi's life is a story as big as his death 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z
"When plants send out roots, they expect to find this complex microbiology that they can work with interdependently, both feeding the soil sugars and attracting then absorbing the necessary compounds they need through their roots." How to get your soil ready for gardening season 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z
The plot is so absorbing that you may not notice the time pass by! The Vampire of Highgate by Asa Bailey 2013-02-08T09:00:00Z
Sean's self-destructive behavior is an honest response to absorbing the impact of his shared loss. In "Pieces of a Woman," Vanessa Kirby survives the worst in a heartbreaking, measured performance 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z
The shells he gives us to admire are intricate, absorbing and beautiful; this book is full of wonders. In ‘Autumn,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard Shows His Sweet Side 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z
In real life, the crime was never solved; in Rubenfeld's vivid imagining, a solution is found — but not before the terrible deed serves as the backbone of his absorbing story. 'The Death Instinct': in 1920, a terrible act of terrorism on Wall Street 2011-01-27T00:59:04Z
By absorbing the most routine aspects of our jobs, optimists argue, machines are freeing us up to concentrate on more creative, thoughtful activities. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z
Yet it is an absorbing read and is aptly named, for it takes a fresh view — as his subtitle puts it — of the birth of American independence. ‘Revolutionary Summer’: America on the edge of change 2013-07-04T00:18:56Z
It is a comprehensive retelling of Manson’s story, and absorbing from the start. Charles Manson: what made him a criminal? - podcasts of the week 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z
Right with him, if not quite as absorbing, is Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette, another country legend and Jones’s partner in a rocky six-year marriage and a much longer musical collaboration. ‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t) 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z
It's an absorbing tale of the youthful ambition that took young men and women to Yugoslavia, Angola, Chechnya, Gaza and Iraq and, sadly, took the lives of two of their number. Radio catchup: Election heckling, photojournalism and Cerys on 6 2010-04-16T16:15:00Z
But it's a charming, absorbing and somehow spacious piece of imagineering for all that. The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – review 2012-06-20T07:00:01Z
"I needed something utterly absorbing and gripping, when I wasn't doing business, and I certainly found it," he told the BBC in 2006. Felix Dennis, publishing provocateur turned poet, dies at 67 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z
The emotions inspired by the absorbing exhibition, “Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition,” are both deeply negative and positive. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z
The mega-deal sees Disney absorbing the Fox film and TV studios, the FX networks, National Geographic and Indian TV giant Star India in a huge boost to its content. Disney seals $71bn deal for 21st Century Fox as it prepares to take on Netflix 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z
“A lot of plants are adapted to absorbing mineral nutrients rather than organic, humic nutrients,” he said. This unusual garden style could be a sustainable solution for urban landscapes 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z
Both works turn up midway through an absorbing 20-year-plus survey of Khedoori’s work newly opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
But in Round House Theatre’s visually vibrant, emotionally absorbing production, the 15-year-old character loosens up within his idiosyncratic head space. Review | ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z
We are absorbing the Rwanda work of Willa, so we shall be present in that country soon. A Matchmaker Helps Artisans Find Luxury Jobs 2012-11-15T04:31:19Z
Out of this initially unlikely relationship, one that strains at reality even as it feels true, Mr. Cahill and his appealing leads create a lived-in, absorbing world. Critic?s Notebook: Turns Out Sundance Thrives on More Than Just Money 2011-01-27T22:58:17Z
It involves more portraiture than plot, absorbing us less in what happens than what is felt in everyday, quasi-autobiographical encounters. Review | ‘Shrill’ and ‘Turn Up Charlie’ are passably cool TV shows that try too hard to be passably cool TV shows 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z
"The elegance and humanity of Harper Lee's writing and the absorbing story she tells mean that it's a book which is unlikely ever to go out of print." Soaring sales 2010-07-09T08:33:00Z
It's great to bring Huey's New York attitude to Saturday mornings, which will be the perfect complement to Cerys' eclectic and absorbing music discoveries on a Sunday morning. 6 Music announces schedule changes 2013-10-08T09:23:47Z
Avoiding books is an efficient method for absorbing the crudest version of effective altruism while gliding past the caveats. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z
“There were a lot of mid-level staffers, especially women and minorities, who were — are — seriously considering leaving Fox,” a Fox News staffer said on Thursday as the newsroom was still absorbing O’Reilly’s departure. ‘The mission was to bring down Bill O’Reilly’: The final days of a Fox News superstar 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z
That photograph is one of more than 200 on display in “Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,” an absorbing if not revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Review: ‘Faking It’ at the Met, a Photography Exhibition 2012-10-11T22:05:00Z
I assume that you are absorbing some of the drunken abuse that your father and brother endured before your arrival. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom’s addiction and abuse roils household 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z
Spatially restricted yet ideologically free-ranging, this thoroughly absorbing documentary, shot mainly inside the apartment, details the family’s rich history within the fluctuating fortunes of Serbian democracy. Review: In ‘The Other Side of Everything,’ a Belgrade Apartment Symbolizes Upheaval 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the pasta sheets — whether fresh or store-bought — need to be boiled at all, because they will soften and cook in the oven by absorbing sauce. Real lasagna is a culinary marvel worth every minute of your time 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z
As the accounts here suggest, the process was absorbing, the art, for the most part, stimulating. See Art Now: 50 New York Art Galleries to Visit This Weekend 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z
James Stourton’s delightfully readable and authoritative biography is absorbing on the rise and rise of a gilded, lucky young man in a hurry. Civilised and civilising 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z
Those with an interest in the Civil War, and Lincoln, will find the show thoroughly absorbing, but it is far more than a Civil War exhibition. Photographing a nation in motion 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
Budiansky is judicious with interpretations, preferring mostly to let his themes emerge from the absorbing story he tells. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z
Its intricacies are immediately absorbing although getting good at it takes time, which means frequently watching aliens overrun your ship and your tiny crew members asphyxiate in the icy, lonely, all-encompassing vacuum of space. This week's new games 2012-10-05T23:05:23Z
As un-ideal as such circumstances sound for absorbing a serious or challenging book, many smartphone owners are choosing to spend this salvaged time on literary classics. “War and Peace” on the subway: How your iPhone is saving literature 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z
Never Be Alone is loose-limbed, Fight Them Back pulses fiercely, Come to Me radiates compassion: the whole is absorbing, invigorating, thrillingly distinct. Steve Mason: Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time – review 2013-03-07T22:15:01Z
It’s true that there are species capable of breaking down oils in saltwater, absorbing radiation and cleaning toxins from the soil, though it’s also true that they might have better things to do. Mushrooms Aren’t Here to Destroy Us — Or to Save Us 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z
In the corners were more kids, absorbing the vibrations. ‘Homegrown’: At BAM, DanceAfrica Keeps It All in the Family 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z
When you enter one of its 16 interior chambers, however, it becomes enveloping and absorbing. Review: Robert Irwin Shows a Calming Installation at Dia:Beacon 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z
A montage of outdoor scenes leads the second episode of “When They See Us,” depicting New York City residents from all walks of life absorbing coverage of the evolving Central Park jogger case. "When They See Us" demands we see the boys damaged by the Central Park jogger case 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z
It's surprisingly linear – with a single correct answer per case – yet absorbingly inventive, and packed full of interesting characters to keep you glued to the screen. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:48Z
The book follows suit, absorbing the neighborhood’s multiple influences. Review: ‘The Red Rooster Cookbook’ Is a Homage to Modern Harlem 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
If the play sometimes feels bloated, it may be from absorbing so much anger and anxiety from the air. ‘Man Cave’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the American Night 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z
What was especially cheering was the strict, objective, subtle, intensely absorbing way it was delivered — with marvelous live music conducted by Nedra Olds-Neal. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z
Nick Flynn: “Dylan became Dylan by absorbing all the poetry around him and all that came before, and he continues to transform it.” Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z
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