Sentence examples for not captivated from inspiring English sources

But in fact, most Americans are not captivated by the Chandra Levy story.

The court spectacles he directed gave him a taste for scenic effects, and he contrived a sumptuous decor, as well as the apparition of a ghost, for Sémiramis (1748), but his public was not captivated.

As for her prose style, even the greatest cynic has to marvel at the control with which she employs her characteristic irony.Each one of Austen's novels has its champions, though apart from the author herself, who feared it was rather too sparkling, it would be hard to find anyone who was not captivated by the vibrant wit of "Pride and Prejudice".

However reasonable this idea might seem, it has not captivated the attention of the producers of "Lost," who have devoted the show's fifth and penultimate season (which ends on Wednesday) to the more mind-bendingly nonsensical dimensions of its sci-fi-ness.

Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive?

I'm not captivated with such a competition.

A newspaper review opined that the story was "too long, and not captivating enough".

The results tend to be an offering that is not captivating to anybody and a sales force that doesn't know where to spend its time.

In fact, the encounter on Tuesday night at the University of Massachusetts campus here did not captivate the American public in the way some politicians had predicted.

But it may not captivate viewers to tune in for the second installment, which comes a little closer to capturing a thematic truth.

There seems never to have been a time nor a culture in which mysterious bones did not captivate those who beheld them.