Sentence examples for was not captivated from inspiring English sources

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".

It was not captivating viewing, but a log showed that Ms. Young stayed overnight 7 times between April 1997 and May 1998, and visited the apartment 88 times.

As a Ph.D. student, the young Elizabeth Loftus wasn't captivated by calculus: "I used to sit in the back of the seminars, kind of bored, writing letters to my Uncle Joe, or hemming skirts or whatever".

Guest, who has a gift for putting peculiar subcultures under a microscope (who wasn't captivated by the worlds of community theater in Waiting for Guffman and competitive dog shows in Best in Show?), has set his sights on genealogy with Family Tree, a series coming to HBO and BBC2 shortly.

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

I'm not captivated with such a competition.

During the pre-Broadway tryout of "Big Fish" in Chicago in the spring, Ms. Stroman said, she came to believe that the first 15 minutes of the show weren't working: The storytelling wasn't clear enough, the emotional relationship between the father and son wasn't strong enough, and the opening number wasn't captivating audiences enough.

It must be a rare visitor to Georgia who isn't captivated by the stunning scenery, food and music.

Sia's videos are always simplistic, but watching Takano karate chop for five minutes just isn't captivating the way Ziegler dancing in 'Chandelier' or playfighting with Shia LaBeouf in 'Elastic Heart' was.

He had raved to me about its ability to change font size so it could be read without glasses, but given that my eyes were just fine and I didn't mind the feel of paper, I was not so captivated by the e-reader.