Sentence examples for captivated by something from inspiring English sources

We are captivated by something that may appear fleetingly, if at all, but doesn't last.

Jomier expects little more than "a folkloric experience", but is unexpectedly captivated by something that "transcends tourism... Little has changed in a thousand years.

Unfortunately, Akerman's film about Bausch hasn't been released here (even on home video); I caught it, by chance, on television in France about fifteen years ago (the best of all chances — flipping channels, having my eye captivated by something I couldn't identify, and watching with rapt attention to the end before finding out what I had been watching).

I want to be the Force". I was captivated by this concept that something beyond seeing, tasting, touching, something so mythic and powerful, could connect people to each other, the world.

Instead, he sounded almost enthusiastic, a coach captivated by the challenge: to build something that lasts.

That Trump, whose preoccupation with, say, Hillary Clinton seems so clearly a placeholder for some other hurt, is captivated by the tape as a metonym for something worse, something infinitely more degrading that the Russians have on him?

In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952) she sang three songs by Cole Porter, who was so captivated by her rendering of "You Do Something to Me" that he offered her a leading role in a Broadway musical, "Silk Stockings", which ran for years.Her singing, if not her films, may be remembered.

I am also captivated by the cinematographic sense in which Kudzu transforms the landscape into something resembling an apocalyptic film set".

"Justice Kennedy was so clearly captivated by the federalism argument — the sates'-rights argument, the idea that marriage is something that we leave for the states to regulate," Toobin tells us.

I recently wrote about Martha after becoming captivated by her decision to release a solo album after a nearly 20-year hiatus, entitled, Something Good.

Radigue was not stumbling on something new – but rediscovering on a different instrument a sound she was already captivated by.