Exempel på captivated

• All of us are captivated by media representations of scenes we would never look at twice in real life.

• He would capture the heart of the young woman who has captivated his own.

• While she may well have been captivated by his views, a critical attitude would have been more revealing.

• I was totally captivated with the hypothesis that there was some built-in syllabus or innate language acquisition device that would account for the common features of learners' interlanguage.

• Having no previous close professional or personal interest in the subject, he became captivated by the question of secrecy and openness in adoption, which became the theme of the book.

• Creatures that can conceptualize alternative paths for fulfilling desires, have brain processes that can intend to act much more than organisms thoroughly captivated by their affectively rich intentions in action.

• Curious and captivated by the knowledge of the ' 'whiteman' ', the parents sent their children to school.

• The early decades of the nineteenth century were captivated by phrenology that purported to be a 'science' of character as interpreted through the shape and size of the skull.

• I can still recall the collective gasp of horror, as well as the outbursts of laughter, that the story's denouement elicited from a captivated company of listeners.

• He may have been the one who was captivated by the figure 72.

• I am afraid that, as a general rule, we are bored with other people's speeches and captivated with our own.

• He made one statement that captivated my attention when he said that these circumstances are more of challenge than of crisis.

• We were captivated as layer after layer, like an onion, was peeled away from one financial perk after another.

• There he was so captivated by the paintings that he started taking an interest in art, culture and history.

• I watched it and was captivated observing the finer points of his delivery.