There are some people who are actually driven by something much greater than self-absorption.    From LearnThat.org.  [Erika Harris, Source: An Open Letter to Visionaries, via zPod:Vision Cafe -- http://pods.zaadz.com/power]

The absorption of photons by atoms or molecules.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Administration of substances that absorb toxins and further prevent their absorption is also useful in early cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Richard Palmquist: Pet Owners Beware: This Common Sweetener Can Poison Dogs] Reference

This problem has become known as the absorption anomaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Vapor #1 « Climate Audit] Reference

Self-absorption is an addiction best treated cold turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging on blogging] Reference

I like #8 as well — absorption is such a blessed state!.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Do I Know? « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

I agree that the reader's absorption is a measure of good writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Lois] Reference

Olestra blocks fat absorption but blocks vitamin absorption as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Food Additives You Should Try To Avoid - The Consumerist] Reference

Expressing such elaborate symptomatic self-absorption is no easy task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism] Reference

Improved absorption translates to a lower risk for gastrointestinal complaints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference

Skin absorption may also cause stomach pains, nausea, vomiting and changes in blood pressure and heart rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insect Repellents] Reference

Ezetrol is ezetimibe, which lowers cholesterol by a different mechanism: It reduces its absorption from the gut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lactose-Free Statins] Reference

I think that calorie consumption rather than calorie absorption is the common understanding of “calories in.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Are Carbs Worse than Fat?] Reference

We can assume that Alutsista problem was not caused by limited budget, but also because the budget's absorption is low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Deteriorating Primary Defense Weapon System] Reference

The great force of absorption is well elucidated by Dr. Hales's experiment on the rise of the sap-juice in a vinestump; see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canto I] Reference

Considered as a whole, there is a simple phase of the inductive process which is best explained by the terms absorption and reflection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart] Reference

The word absorption precisely expresses my meaning, for he seemed indeed to have become a part of his surroundings, -- an harmonious part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

This wine cabinet cools through what's referred to as the absorption principal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

For it can hardly be supposed, if the absorption were the act of the molecule as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

And you touched on this earlier, the absorption is the issue here on the OE side?.    From Wordnik.com.  [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference

Some real estate agents place stock in that figure, called the absorption rate, others don't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

Attachment, sometimes called absorption: The virus attaches to receptors on the host cell wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

In the latter, the patient first feels the effect of what is called the absorption of the virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Vitamin D and C to help utilize that calcium absorption, which is most important for strong bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [eHow - Health How To's] Reference

His team looked for these so-called absorption lines that are known to be made by red dwarf stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

(There’s plenty of that at this particular moment) ~ 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have some Coke!] Reference

They are called absorption units and typically use R717 or ammonia as the refrigerant R134a is also sometimes used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

The team detected three spectral features called absorption lines that together are a definitive signature of methane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mars Today Top Stories] Reference

We might call this an analysis and synthesis of the process of making lumber, or in other words absorption and reflection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart] Reference

My wife Marion even did a post based on the article, taking on one of her own culinary deal breakers, namely absorption pasta.    From Wordnik.com.  [why we’re afraid to cook + salad olivier | smitten kitchen] Reference

They found three such areas, called absorption lines, which together are a definitive signature of methane, according to the team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mars News from MarsDaily.com] Reference

'They have a very intense optical absorption, which is exactly matched to the peak of the sun's spectrum just by coincidence,' he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Engineer - News] Reference

And that absorption is beginning to show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean Acidification: Another Carbon Challenge | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference

Secondly, we notice that there is one phase of absorption which is still obscure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference

Over 40 million copies of Vista installed in first 100 days after release highest "absorption" ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 entries from July 2007] Reference

Also it's infrared "absorption" that greenhouse gases do.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

She had watched the two dancing with a kind of absorption in her gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin] Reference

To his suzerain's policy of "absorption," the Count of Flanders opposed the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day] Reference