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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

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 sequence of events that followed would reverberate around the world and, within days, devastate a family, upend a city’s politics and transfix two nations.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2017

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

This shot transfixes me because I have been so spellbound by Byrne that I am literally entranced and pulled into the music.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023

Instead, pieces like “Knee Play 1,” from the opera “Einstein on the Beach,” unfold like a mandala that transfixes the listener.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2020

He reveals the Real Truth about life with Charles Manson or O.J. or some tangential connection to that which transfixes us and demands our attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2017

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

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

Block described staring up at the gallery wall, transfixed by the horror.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

He was hopeless at math and likely dyslexic, but said he was utterly transfixed by music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Dozens of men and boys stood transfixed as they watched Belgium play Egypt -- a much-anticipated fixture for Palestinian football fans eager to witness the prowess of their idol, Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

In interviews, he recalled being transfixed as a child by watching his father use fresh paint to make battered bicycles look new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Casual passersby were looking back over their shoulders at the windows, and a few rather stunned-looking people had actually come to a halt, transfixed.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

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

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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

A powerful politician’s night of triumph descends precipitously into waking-nightmare territory in the transfixing “Oedipus,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy from the British writer-director Robert Icke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

“Macbeth” may be Shakespeare’s most transfixing tragedy, but its dark magic often fizzles in the theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

Her transfixing allure seems to draw every oddity and incident, but as the years pass, there’s also a fixity to her resolve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

But the following night he was standing in his old place, opposite to Siegfried, transfixing him with his gloomy, glowing eyes.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann