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As the exhibit’s days count down, the inspired visions from Kahlo, Rivera and their contemporaries continue to transfix visitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Both pieces confirm the impression that Thorvaldsdottir is incapable of writing music that doesn’t immediately transfix an open-eared listener.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

The new findings shed more light on a case that has continued to transfix the nation.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022

A sign of her charisma is that during the final tableau, as Aida and Radamès are expiring in the tomb, Amneris continues to transfix the attention: even when she isn’t singing, she dominates the stage.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

The changing patterns of light transfix my sight.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

This Eden is enhanced by the birth of a son, Elio, whose beauty transfixes all who see him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Iceland itself, with its stunning rock formations, crashing waterfalls and impossibly gorgeous sunsets, duly transfixes him, but that vindicates only his eyesight, not his character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

And, at the end of the day, a sport that both transfixes and repels did both again.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2021

It transfixes, not with artifice or cheap sentiment, but with a strange alchemy of gloom and light.

From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018

The flashing of white, pink, and green briefly transfixes me.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

It, too, was glibly misjudged by those transfixed by its title.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

For nearly seven weeks, the trial transfixed and divided the nation on whether Clancy was a victim or a criminal who deserved to be behind bars.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Even though our granny was, like all people in the mountains, well acquainted with Dolly by that point, she was still transfixed.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

I sat still for a few minutes, transfixed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The years just seemed to roll right off them, and I watched transfixed as they laughed like rascals and raced each other, then swam leisurely back to the bank.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Therefore we'll parry with cloak what shafts thou shootest against us; And by our bolts transfixt, penalty due thou shalt pay.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Had I but once transfixt thy froward breast, How would’st thou then——I staid not for the rest; But thus half angry to the boy replide: How would’st thou then my soul of sense bereave!

From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More

From being transfixt by such a jibe Maupassant was preserved by Flaubert.

From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

As Othello, Mr. Quinn is at first surprisingly soft-spoken, not putting too much polish on the character’s transfixing eloquence—“the Othello music,” as critics have called it—in his recitation of how he won Desdemona’s love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Who impressed, and who has the most to do after a transfixing opening weekend of the Six Nations?

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Mescal has an element of unpredictable wildness, and when it’s allowed to come out it’s transfixing, though he’s largely kept on a leash, save for a few memorable scenes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

Just as transfixing is the real-world back story it implies.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Don't," cried Violet, transfixing him with the angry fire of her eyes, "for I'm afraid I should trample on it.

From Vixen, Volume I. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon