captivation

Example Sentences

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Whatever Gyllenhaal wants to do, she does, which becomes its own act of captivation and reckless empowerment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

So what better way to crack the curiosity of the culturally intransigent than to make this history personal by way of someone whose primary 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

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

In a letter of later date, describing the adventurer's captivation with the cottage maiden whom he afterwards married, there are some lines of a very different stamp.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)