Giant TV with the sound turned down – even when it features beautiful models and gorgeous clothes – fails to captivate.
There's no denying the current political landscape fails to captivate every single young person, but if students attended events like these - and took an active role in reading, listening, or taking part in politics - they will be able to make a difference.
Though brutal and unsparing in its depiction of family dysfunction, The War Zone never fails to captivate.
Although Super League is a competition which prides itself on attacking flair as opposed to defensive grit, the England coach, Wayne Bennett, appears to have an unfortunate knack of picking games which fail to captivate the imagination.
Hail, Ceasar!, their hilarious tribute to Hollywood's golden age, faces a rare uphill battle for the film-makers: it opened way back in February, and failed to captivate audiences, flopping at the box office despite a cast that includes Channing Tatum and George Clooney.
While the Knicks' mismatched lineup has struggled recently and, on the whole, failed to captivate the team's fans this season, Scott Layden, the team's general manager, said yesterday that the franchise would avoid making a trade just for the sake of change.
But his manuscript failed to captivate people as he had hoped it would—"I called Clint Eastwood's secretary, but she said, 'Unless you have an agent, he won't read it' "—and the author of "The Can Opener" increasingly seemed trapped, an ordinary old man.
But Davis feels his team have failed to captivate with their style of play.
There have been flaws - some teams over-relying on individuals, and some of the major European nations suffering a collective lapse in form and accomplishment - but the tournament has never failed to captivate.
Where others failed to captivate and electrify, this guy had the place feeling like a proper South Beach soiree.
Whether we're in the grimly sober Wall Street of more recent films, or the cash and flash fantasia of the 1980s, it remains clear that finance has never failed to captivate filmmakers.
