Sentence examples for be captivated by a from inspiring English sources
But boards must also retain their independence from the CEO, because it is all too easy to be captivated by a charismatic and powerful leader, especially when he or she is also in the chairman role.
Viewers are not likely to be captivated by a view of the top of a Senator's head bent over a desk, particularly, the aide said, since some of the heads are notably baldish.
It began with conservative evangelical viewers not known for engagement with historical issues about Christian anti-Semitism roots and likely to be captivated by a traditional, emotionally powerful synthesis of the Gospel accounts of Jesus' death.
Will children be captivated by a story in which the young hero does what he'd probably do in real life, as opposed to a Hardy Boys book or, for that matter, a Carter and Sadie Kane installment: that is, responsibly turn the whole mess over to the grown-ups?
If someone had told me earlier that I would be captivated by a woman of the old ways — like one of those ladies in muslin hats and veils, glimpsed perhaps in a gondola, whose likenesses you could still find in family photo albums in Tirana's bourgeois households — I would have died laughing.
Are you the sort of person to be captivated by a 10% "yield"?
When Swann is captivated by a piano sonata, Heuet draws the notes swirling in the air.
John Allen Gable was captivated by a children's biography he read about Theodore Roosevelt.
"Quite often we're captivated by a material," she added, like polished horn or volcanic glass.
Viewing an exhibition of student work there one day, Mr. Dillon was captivated by a still life of an Eames chair.
