Sentence examples for audience were captivated from inspiring English sources

The audience were captivated by him.

The audience was captivated.

Cinema, like its audience, was captivated by the novelty of the urban experience.

Above us, where an uplit castle stands majestic on the hillside, another audience is captivated by the flickering images projected on to its ancient walls.

When Fosbury arrived at the Olympics in Mexico City, his technique was greeted with skepticism by coaches and competitors, but the audience was captivated by the novelty of his jumping style, and by the end of the first day of competition he had successfully cleared each height on the first attempt.

The audience was captivated by it.

The pressure in the room drops and the audience is captivated.

Of course, most his audience was captivated by such a well to do man, not to mention one hell of an impressive father.

She had defied the odds in her journey to the Board of Directors in a Fortune 100 company, and the audience was captivated.

Movie audiences were captivated by this reverent if picturesque vision of "Africa" as a place of Edenic nobility and feudal integrity, a conservative vision of patriarch-worship.

When Mad Men premiered in 2007, audiences were captivated by its brilliant writing and acting, and the mystery that was the dashing Don Draper, but they also swooned over the clothes, the hair and the sheer gorgeous glamour of it all.