Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.
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Creedmoor stared transfixed at the map of violence growing at his feet.
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For example, the 71-year-old playwright was transfixed by the Amanda Knox trial.
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The eyes before him remained transfixed in the space beyond his shoulder.
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The rest of the world is still transfixed by Australia's bushfire crisis.
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We stood transfixed for a moment as the room swelled with light.
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She didn't know how long they stood transfixed by that shining thing.
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For an instant the blacks and the whites stood transfixed with terror.
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Forrester was transfixed by his computer screen, Googling away at 'human sacrifice'.
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There was a frozen moment while the scene was transfixed with light.
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He stood transfixed, dumbfounded, waiting for a second call that never came.
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We watched, transfixed, as the great sacrifice was consumed in the night.
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I saw post-encephalitics who seemed frozen, transfixed, unable to take a step.
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The sharpened stick that had transfixed the bait was pulled out clean.
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I remember standing transfixed; and crouching on the floor, after a while.
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The nation has been transfixed by coverage of the San Bernardino attacks.
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She could hold an audience transfixed just by taking her glove off.
