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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

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

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

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Instead of being transfixed, Herbert replied in an easy matter-of-course way, “Exactly. Well?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

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

That cruel realization haunts the cash-strapped protagonist of English filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s transfixing, increasingly despairing “Rose of Nevada.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

A quietly transfixing performance from Ayo Edebiri provides reason enough to see the Broadway revival of “Proof,” David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning drama, first staged in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

It was floating in the water, still transfixing the fish whose capture had endangered Burl's life.

From The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster