captivation
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What better way to crack the curiosity of the culturally intransigent than to make this history personal by way of someone whose 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
The poets and philosophizers of Toronto think there is more behind the city’s captivation with the fox family.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2020
But he had not fallen into the habit of using it from any idea that it was captivating, nor had he desisted from it since all projects of captivation had departed from his mind.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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