Make it "captivated … as never before".
I felt as though I was reading about a specific American lifestyle and the personal images and stories really made it captivating to read.
You want to lure in the reader to continue reading the rest of your essay, making it captivating and intriguing, yet accessible.
The article-as-numbered-list has several features that make it inherently captivating: the headline catches our eye in a stream of content; it positions its subject within a preëxisting category and classification system, like "talented animals"; it spatially organizes the information; and it promises a story that's finite, whose length has been quantified upfront.
He wasn't just telling me about what he saw, he was already crafting the language and ideas that would anchor the story and make it so captivating and successful.
If you were going to build a world, there are a million ways you could make it strange and captivating.
The way the main character has you screaming at the pages and the rest of the cast have you baying for their blood make it the most captivating book of the year... add to that Chuck Palahniuk's Non Fiction which simultaneously amazed and scared the crap out of me.
Written by Curtis Casella and Kyle Cabral Cabrall also directs the series and stars as Cole), Paper Boys is a delightful new web series that takes the sometimes harsh reality of being a confused millennial trying to juggle love, a career, and a new city, and spices it up with a bit of magic to make it all the more captivating.
Shot in one take in a break from endless touring and featuring some spotlights, an incredible dance routine and a backwards roll that then morphs into a dry hump, its simplicity is what makes it so captivating.
While Mike's active-duty letters, full of mud and gore, form part of the story, it is Farrington's unsparing account of Lizzie's life at home — the desperately untidy house, her small attempts to carve out time for herself, her mounting anxiety — that takes the novel beyond its particular time and place and makes it a captivating study of tenderness and blame.
I think what also makes it so captivating is that so many written records have survived so we know such a lot about the lives of individual characters.
