captivation

Example Sentences

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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

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

Unless, of course, its incentive had lain in consciousness of Summerlad's na�ve captivation.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph