transfix
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Director Andrew Russell trusts Porkalob’s ability to transfix an audience.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
That the music could still transfix the crowd, and the weekend went as peacefully as it did, speaks to the generosity of spirit in its attendees, not any utopia.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019
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
Vocabulary lists containing transfix
Power Prefix: trans-
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