spellbinding
IPA: spˈɛɫbaɪndɪŋ
adjective
- Engrossing; fascinating; gaining rapt attention; captivating.
- Having the power to bind magically through the agency of a spell.
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Examples of "spellbinding" in Sentences
- The stories are harrowing, spellbinding.
- He was a spellbinding speaker and a good organizer.
- Her spellbinding and seductive dance captivates the crowd, even Frollo.
- It is overwhelming, spellbinding; at first dreamlike, and then hallucinatory.
- The book club at the Royal Household enjoyed a 'spellbinding' talk by Christopher Andrew
- Britain's Got Talent: 14-year-old Olivia leaves judges speechless with 'spellbinding' performance
- Opera Theater is hoping that Pittsburghers will join them in this "spellbinding" musical Valentine.
- Gruber continued to raise money for Israel and became known as a spellbinding speaker, especially on the subject of the Haven experience.
- He's author of "James Dean, Mutant King," which one critic referred to as a spellbinding portrait of James Dean, had a lot of sources and new facts.
- With the book, now available in paperback, hailed as "spellbinding" by the New York Times, and two others in the same series, _Ragtime in Simla _and _The Damascene Blade_, out in hardcover, Ms. Cleverly has turned to short stories -- this one featuring architect-sleuth Ellie Hardwick.
- Telford says it has sold about 1,000 copies, partly on the strength of comments such as "spellbinding" from former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer and "sensational saga" from Keith Johnson, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers and a former colleague of Telford on the faculty at Finney High School.
- Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.