spellbind

His acrobatics were not so wild as before but he was quite energetic enough to spellbind them and hold their attention with ease.

However, the keen observers could see that Waheed would be unable to spellbind the public as he did in the past.

We could spellbind him to tell the truth... but it might not help: who knows how truth looks to a saurian?

Anna Calvi has emerged from nowhere to spellbind a burgeoning audience of admirers.

But the other, the tall and educated Englishman, was much easier to spellbind, and he began to pour out the whole tale without guile.

She could use her clerical powers to spellbind the young man.... Caramon shook his head.

Greenville News arts writer Ann Hicks calls Matossian "a rare, compelling artist who can spellbind any audience."

In Inferno Lachrymarum attempted to spellbind Mark Elliot during a music lecture in Rome.

"And her waist is slim, and they say she practices magic arts to spellbind men to her," Kevin said, "but this is gossip and no more.

He didn't think this was the time to tell the lord that the old man was attempting to spellbind a dragon by singing one of Thillia's most popular drinking songs.

He never had moved, not since he had made that agreement with Damiano in San Gabriel over a year ago, when Damiano had promised never to spellbind him if the horse would stay where put.

At the North Plaza from 2 to 5 P.M., the New York storyteller Malika Lee Whitney will spellbind with her tales, Cindy Marvell will apprentice jugglers, and puppet making will be taught.

With its richly decorated domes and lush gardens, the royal city is a sensual delight, a place where shifting light and shadow caress the turquoise-and-cream-colored tiles of the mosques and where long arcades and soaring vaults spellbind even the most jaded tourist.

During a Mass officiated by the Saint Prelate in the whilom mother-church of Catania, Heliodorus noisily rushed into the nave, slinking away along the pews to spellbind and confound the believers engrossed in the Sunday rite.

It seemed to spellbind the jury and court spectators, not only because of its importance to the trial, but also because of Mr. Minucci's blunt, emphatic narrative style that included blurted anecdotes of rough-and-tumble life in a racially charged area of Queens.

Louis, whose green eyes are soulful, the very mirror of patient misery, soft-voiced, very human, weak, having lived only two hundred years, unable to read minds, or to levitate, or to spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an immortal with whom mortals fall in love.

I am sure I don't have to tell you that "greenlight" is in every way an incantatory term, a word meant to spellbind as it whizzes past your ear, a rune, a charm, a mystic pass in the air that moves and shakes an entire industry without any reference whatever to quality, substance, or prior thought.