all-engrossing

The danger was too instant, and of a description too horrible, to admit of any which involved a more comprehensive view of his calamity; and other reflections of a more distant kind, were at first swallowed up in the all-engrossing thought of immediate death.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

I guess you could say these issues are global in another sense: all-engrossing and evergreen.

Redrawing The Line 2005

Although he had only so recently acquired Aileen legally, yet she was years old to him as a mistress, and the first engrossing — it had been almost all-engrossing — enthusiasm was over.

The Titan 2004

But be all this as it may, certain it is, that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

It was a pathetic plea, a sop to what she saw as adult obsessions, far removed from the all-engrossing matter of mutual desire.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

It was a pathetic plea, a sop to what she saw as adult obsessions, far removed from the all-engrossing matter of mutual desire.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

It was a pathetic plea, a sop to what she saw as adult obsessions, far removed from the all-engrossing matter of mutual desire.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

It was a pathetic plea, a sop to what she saw as adult obsessions, far removed from the all-engrossing matter of mutual desire.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

The principal direction of his life was fixed at an early age by an intense awareness of physics, and its study became an all-engrossing activity.

Julian Schwinger - Biography 1972

Homesickness was forgotten in the all-engrossing wretchedness of space sickness.

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967