immersive

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 17 13:21:03 UTC 2013


OED marks this "obs." for 400 years, but it's making a comeback in the new
sense of "tending fully to absorb the attention; enthralling; riveting."

2013
http://www.standard.net.au/story/1290858/film-review-zero-dark-thirty/<http://www.standard.net.au/story/1290858/film-review-zero-dark-thirty/>
:    the raid on bin Laden's compound is immersive and well executed.

Nearly 8 million raw Google hits, 16,000 of them in ref. to the movie _Zero
Dark Thirty_.

JL

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