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attract strongly, as if with a magnet
She magnetized the audience with her tricks -
to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
The snake charmer fascinates the cobra - put into a trance
How To Use spellbind In A Sentence
- A spellbinding four hours of voices, intelligent interviews and specialists. Times, Sunday Times
- Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
- 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. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2004
- Her exercises, done with spellbinding precision and timing are a joy to behold.
- It hurtles through two hours of spellbinding dialogue. It makes an untellable story clear and fascinating.
- But will this show be a spellbinding watch? The Sun
- Plainly put, this spellbinding picture is also a required addition to any well-rounded film library.
- The book club at the Royal Household enjoyed a 'spellbinding' talk by Christopher Andrew Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- 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. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- I should note here that the special effects are spellbinding, recalling the resourcefulness seen in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9. Sundance Movie Review/Video Blog: Splice - It’s Messed Up | /Film
