be smitten by

Kate is witty and headstrong and focused on her family’s needs more than her own, and he can’t help but be smitten by it.

Today, it’s hard not to be smitten by the beauty of this place, the snow, the hoarfrost coating every limb on the willows that line the field, the stillness of land at rest.

Francisco Mojica was not the first to see CRISPR, but he was probably the first to be smitten by it.

Mr. Hackett: You couldn’t help but be smitten by the entrepreneur who started it.

After all, the sizable valuations of many digital-media companies reflect the very hope that Comcast and others will be smitten by them.