Sentence examples for designed to captivate from inspiring English sources

As much showman as physician, Charcot gave weekly two-hour lectures to a packed amphitheater, including demonstrations designed to captivate an audience accustomed to staged séances and exhibitions of mesmerism or telepathy.

They are, rather, delicate craftings (even: works of art) designed to captivate the interests of average people and, in this way, lead them to living in accordance with the truth.

But the primary goal is to create more original titles designed specifically to captivate audiences here in America.

The film's aliens were designed to be "cool and captivating", with some details, such as a fungus that grows on their wounds, created to depict the creatures as frontiersmen facing adversity in an unfamiliar place.

Although not all these exhibits captivated the 5-year-olds, the show was designed to appeal to many ages, said Edith Gonzalez de Scollard, the museum's director of education.

Compared to my own studies, experiments like those designed to discern the effects of age and alcohol on laughter were captivating (both concluded that the more you drink/age, the less you understand, but the more you laugh).

He tried to captivate the ambitious fancy of that king with a design for carving Mount Athos into a gigantic seated statue.

Ever since the 6, it seems to me that Apple has only drifted, casting about for something to captivate its users the way the iPhone 4's design and new graphical capabilities did, all the way back in 2010.

This powerfully danced version, tightly choreographed, beautifully designed (by the Oscar-winning Tim Yip) and musically rich (composed by Du Wei, with the Paris-based composer Chen Qigang as consultant) is also likely to captivate anyone able to see it.

All the excitement seemed to captivate fans.

She also has to captivate viewers.