transfix

Director Andrew Russell trusts Porkalob’s ability to transfix an audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

He studies Beard’s practice with that kind of fascination that shows how a puzzle such as basketball can transfix some human brains forever.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2021

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

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

At its best, “Strange Beasts” transfixes you like a vivid dream, offering glimpses of the waking world contorted into uncanny forms.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

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

The demonstrations jolted the Indian establishment and transfixed the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

Jason stood by, ready to attack, but the snake seemed transfixed by Piper’s problems with Blue Lightning’s coverage.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

From The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster