enrapture

Passages about Lord Byron’s anorexia and the invention of the first electric battery will enrapture a reader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Ceylan’s films enrapture on the big screen, where the vastness of Anatolia’s barren, majestic exteriors dwarf his downtrodden characters’ personal dramas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

In "Killers of the Flower Moon" stars Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro enrapture the audience from start to finish with bone-chilling performances with real-life archival footage from Osage history as a backdrop.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

In Kucha-e-Kharabat, classical music traditions have been passed down for generations, dating back to the 1860s when Afghan emperor Sher Ali Khan invited Indian masters to enrapture Kabul’s royal court.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

How their glittering coats did enrapture the crowd!

From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

Even when one knows all of its tricks, “Chef’s Table” enraptures.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2019

Julien Baker, March 9 at the Exit/In: A precociously open-hearted 21-year-old comes fully into her own, armed with only her guitar, a few looping pedals, and a voice that enraptures everyone.

From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2016

There is nothing, perhaps, that enraptures a baseball crowd like a hard-throwing pitcher.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2015

According to Rodgers, what enraptures listeners – and you can hear it, he says, on the Daft Punk album – is disco's "complex simplicity".

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2013

What pleases and what is sought in art, what makes beat the heart and enraptures the admiration, is life, movement, emotion, warmth, the feeling of the artist.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

In a 2023 interview with Steve Bannon, Trump became so enraptured talking about the musical that he wouldn’t stop, even as Bannon tried to get him to focus on crime in New York City.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Like those works, “Reflections on Cinematography” offers enough technical arcana to keep colleagues in the profession and students of the craft enraptured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Think of an athlete in the middle of a game, or a musician enraptured by a melody or the rare magic of getting lost in a project or conversation and realizing an hour has evaporated.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

There are not many sports that can keep an audience enraptured through 45 minutes of ceremony before the first point is even contested.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

The idea of spreading mercy, indiscriminately, or, to be more correct, spreading it on someone I really didn’t care about, enraptured me.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

And one venture capitalist described in exhaustive detail the circular flow of money behind a recent investment by Nvidia into his AI startup, enrapturing the crowd with his explanation of how capitalism really works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

Horror shows and films are now successful year-round, with the likes of “Sinners” and “The Last of Us” enrapturing audiences long before Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

Bailey has a glistening wonder in her eyes as Ariel – it’s enrapturing even if the movie is a little silly.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023

The film's arrival was welcomed by the Independent's Geoffery Mcnab, who said the "enrapturing cosmic comedy" was reminiscent of an "offbeat" version of the 1977 US sci-fi drama film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

From BBC ● May 24, 2023

Once a year God takes his joy, And that great joy is Spring, He weds earth clad in blossom-robes, For His enrapturing!

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young