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

The opportunity to star in an adventure film satisfied Blunt’s childhood captivation with the genre.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2021

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

She was not, it is true, of the ordinary type of beauty, whose chief ornament is an effort at captivation.

From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Dougall, Lily