captivation
Example Sentences
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What better way to crack the curiosity of the culturally intransigent than to make this history personal by way of someone whose superpower is captivation?
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2023
There was a certain captivation among the crowd as the future NFL player breezed through agility drills.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Her captivation by opera was such that in 2016, she was cast as the comic Duchess of Krakenthorp in the Washington National Opera’s “The Daughter of the Regiment.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2020
The poets and philosophizers of Toronto think there is more behind the city’s captivation with the fox family.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2020
“Have you forgot that ’twas I who tried to effect his captivation at Middlebrook?
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison
