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

Ceylan’s films enrapture on the big screen, where the vastness of Anatolia’s barren, majestic exteriors dwarf his downtrodden characters’ personal dramas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

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

In Kucha-e-Kharabat, classical music traditions have been passed down for generations, dating back to the 1860s when Afghan emperor Sher Ali Khan invited Indian masters to enrapture Kabul’s royal court.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

Though scenes of the fairest are Windsor adorning, Though England's proud structures enrapture the view; Yet Nature's wild grandeur, all artifice scorning, Is seen 'mong our mountains so bonnie and blue.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

Even when one knows all of its tricks, “Chef’s Table” enraptures.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2019

Good design enraptures Dr. Anderson, from his Sorrento cup and saucer, readily available on the internet, to Sarah Sze’s virtuosic sculptures, which have graced the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2017

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

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

The sweetness and loveliness of you entrances and enraptures my heart.

From Bandit Love by Savage, Juanita

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

Amanda is enraptured with its aspirational luxury: “The house had that hush expensive houses do. Silence meant the house was plumb, solid, its organs working in happy harmony.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

“I feel a level of satisfaction, a completeness as a human being, when I’m being surprised and enraptured with somebody else’s vision of the world,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

Throughout the week, on street corners, in stores, at shebeens all over the neighbourhood, the talk was about the fight, and black people everywhere were enraptured by Ali’s feats.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

"As much as it's a movie about one man's struggle, it's a family drama too, and the way his paralysis shifts their dynamic over the years is enrapturing to watch," said IndieWire's critic Siddhant Adlakha.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

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

But Kurosawa’s assured direction is enough to make “Wife of a Spy” an enrapturing, stylish wartime period piece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

Once a year God takes his joy, And that great joy is Spring, He weds earth clad in blossom-robes, For His enrapturing!

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young