The Apollo missions were utterly captivating for young science buffs like me (and my brother, whose room often smelled of glue as he assembled detailed spacecraft models).
This work was captivating for two reasons.
Also captivating, for more technical reasons, are three pen-and-ink figure studies by Perino del Vaga.
Those shops were so captivating for a teen looking for some trouble.
Chasing Asylum is a 90-minute compendium of shame, captivating for the wrong reasons.
If you really want a floating hotel which is entirely captivating for a few days, that was quite good fun.
So, it's all the more impressive that this novel remains captivating for most of its 500+ pages.
THEY are conversations broadcast every Friday morning on NPR's "Morning Edition": snatches of lives recorded by StoryCorps, often poignant, sometimes profound and utterly captivating for many listeners.
ONE spectacular Sunday in Paris last month, I decided to skip museums and shopping to partake of something even more captivating for an environment reporter: Vélib, arguably the most successful bike-sharing program in the world.
The contest, played in the early afternoon heat and bright sunshine, was captivating for two sets but after Djokovic broke in the first game of the final set, he never looked back.
