They praised several aspects of the story arc: the plot and narration for being captivating and for including famous London settings, references to Sherlock Holmes, and the Wimbledon competition; the characterization for the antagonist Sabara Hades; and the romance between Shinichi and Ran which was described as an event readers had been waiting for.
The synergy was perfect between Victoire de Castellane, Dior's jewelry designer, and John Galliano and his haute couture, for both were captivated by the idea of making flowers contemporary.
He had been following the progress of the youngster on a training farm in Florida for months and was captivated by his long, lean build.
But for those who were captivated by the rescue mission – by, in a sense, the "miracle" that took place – this is a fine book, well researched and written.
For centuries, Europeans were captivated by legends of distant islands with unimaginable wealth.
For example, he was captivated by the behavior of the large rattlesnake kept (behind glass) by an anatomy professor, and in his off time, working at Cornell's Baker Institute for Animal Health, he performed investigations on Western equine encephalitis virus and on a unique pathogenic mycoplasma that he isolated from a wild rabbit.
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?
Charles Banks-Altekruse's argument for establishing a permanent site for the Olympic Games ("Give the Olympics a Home," Op-Ed, March 1) misses the overriding point of the Games for the millions like me who sit at home and are captivated for two weeks every two years.
Still, it's not the sort of thing many people are very likely to sit through for the whole hour, and one part of the public is especially unlikely to be captivated for long by Mr. Vitiello's work: small children.
For months, the Internet was captivated by the mysterious and strangely poetic Twitter spam account Horse_ebooks.
