Amid all that splendor, who could have guessed that a shoebox-size mangled bronze machine, its inscriptions barely legible, its gears calcified and corroded, would be the discovery that could captivate scientists for more than a century?
He was a learned and entertaining lecturer, and his pyrotechnics could captivate the most unlikely students.
In response, researchers like Leiserowitz have investigated messages that could captivate all different kinds of audiences.
He could captivate an audience with stirring oratory and unhinge his opponents with a cold, discerning eye.
Ian Moir could captivate and he could infuriate, but he can be remembered warmly as a happy footballer who brought sunshine into the game.
As an academic too, in his long teaching career at Glasgow University, he could captivate his student audience, bring literature to life.
Yet if Ms. Meier was never really able to expand her Met repertory, to become one of the company's anchors, in her core roles she could captivate even there.
When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?", we cannot but recall Kafka himself, trapped within the wall of orchestral sound, and unable to suspend disbelief in the sound of catgut scraped against horsehair.
The prodigiosin, linked to the bacterial plasma membrane, could captivate visible light and generate reactive oxygen.
Jennifer Lawrence could captivate a camera back in junior high, too.
This film's accomplishment is illustrating that contradiction, showing how such a man could captivate an intelligent, caring staff--and the American public--despite his evident shortcomings.
