mesmerize

She was mesmerized by the smooth-talking Sonny, who raffishly claimed to be a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Little is explained but much can be guessed about Rogowski’s character, whom the great German actor can’t help but make into a mesmerizing figure of storybook fragility.

A way to look at emergent behavior — the coordinated and mesmerizing flight of a flock of birds, for instance.

Salon goes through the ways Hernández has mesmerized audiences across the country.

I was reading a journal he kept in prison, and I was mesmerized by the quality of his writing and the precision of his observations.