enrapture

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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

It’s still the regular season, and to enrapture a city you generally have to make a playoff run.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023

For the dance is warlike and passionate, but it has steps and measured changes, and interposed are some elevations that really enrapture and surprise.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen