Sentence examples for caught spellbound from inspiring English sources

What they also had, of course, were huge audiences, caught spellbound in their melodramatic plots.

It's at its best when layered with shadowy glimpses of wife (Sophie Scott) and violinist (Tobias Beer) caught spellbound in the rapture of music.

We stopped and got out and stood there, staring, in the middle of the wilderness, spellbound like animals caught in a spotlight.

And then consider that it was Selznick who brought Hitchcock over from England and gave him "Rebecca" and "Spellbound" to make, and who was then so caught up in "Duel in the Sun" that Hitch was able to do "Notorious" while his back was turned.

Sharing this bill is another introspective performer who can nonetheless hold rooms spellbound – Sheila Jordan, the unique Detroit-raised bebop vocalist who caught Charlie Parker's ear in the early 1950s, studied with the godfather of Cool School piano, Lennie Tristano, and makes personal revelations of the most familiar songs.

Hitch's blondes came in two shades: the ones, like Leigh in "Psycho" and Kim Novak in "Vertigo," who were sexy and duplicitous victims doomed to die in spine-tingling ways, and those, like Ingrid Bergman in "Spellbound" and "Notorious," Grace Kelly in "To Catch a Thief" and "Rear Window," and Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest," who were sexy and sneaky survivors.

"Johnny can get absolutely spellbound by his guests," he says.

During a tournament in Poland in the early 1990's, Nelson sat spellbound as several players told him they had to crawl through an active battlefield in Bosnia-Herzegovina to catch their flight.

The play leaves us spellbound, and seduces us as the young lovers enchant themselves.

Pitino left him spellbound.

Young Kitty is spellbound.