Sentence examples for Seems captivating from inspiring English sources

I feel myself playing the role of a stereotypical PhD student in this regard…where everything is fairly interesting, but nothing seems captivating enough to want to spend years on, only to one day suddenly realize that there is life after dissertation, so I might as well just pick something…anything.

By all accounts, the mayor seems captivated by his fingerprint-smudged iPad.

Mr. Bouley seems captivated by the potential of aged fish, and is already using the techniques at his flagship, Bouley, across Duane Street.

Mann seems captivated not only by the music, which Gay calls the novel's "harbinger and... agent of Eros," but also by the young musician, swept to orgasmic heights by his own playing.

And how do we get the stories of our schools more realistically represented in the media which seems captivated by stories about testing or about what isn't working or vendor products issued in press releases?

Mr. Milosevic seemed captivated.

The action had a certain mad consistency, and an arty young crowd seemed captivated.

Whatever the conflicting views, nearly everyone seemed captivated by the campaign.

He seemed captivated, and Mr. Hiaasen told his publisher, Knopf, about it.

He seemed captivated by the jerky black-and-white movie clip, projected a few steps from the entrance to the exhibit, showing Houdini wriggling out of a straitjacket.

Attempting to seem captivated by the waning sunset, Liana no more than shifted her hips, by way of expressing her discomfort that her story had landed flat.