At a deeper religious level, the desert can turn into a paradisal space where one's soul, wholly devoted to the Divine and
absorbedly contemplating His Creations, relishes its spiritual blessings.
Students listened
absorbedly to the talk from start to finish.
(10) In "The Future of the Novel," Lawrence writes, "So there you have the 'serious' novel, dying in a very long-drawn-out fourteen-volume death agony, and
absorbedly, childishly interested in the phenomenon.
For example, one is described as "cadaverous" and "
absorbedly sway[ing] to and fro droning in the Talmudical intonation" over a socialist magazine (1).