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

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

Once the focus is on the potential lovers, a cacophony of voices and the twilight hues coming through the window enrapture us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

A true storyteller, Nasstrom would enrapture his sons and their friends with stories of his travel around the “sport world.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

And yet, even in this state, they enrapture those who behold them.

From History Of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos

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

My honoured lord, this deer I see With beauty rare enraptures me.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

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 were nearly 10 people on set and we were all enraptured, each of us stopping what we were doing to be in this moment with El Barrio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Did she figure they would be enraptured by her performance?

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

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

Kovacs — an individual, an auteur, an outsider inside the system — also has something of the anarchic, world-upending, enrapturing appeal of Marx brothers and W.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

And there are groans and curses, and everlasting wailings, as harsh and horrible as heaven's songs, shouts, and anthems are sweet, joyous, and enrapturing.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke