Significados de captivation em inglês

Two or three jests adapted to Andrew's palate achieved his momentary captivation.

Under this new captivation her own pet, Poppy, was thoughtlessly neglected.

All that she requires for her captivation is poetry.

Manner is perhaps more seducing than mere beauty; but where they are allied, the captivation is irresistible.

I heard her the other day warbling the gypsy song in 'The Camp in Silesia,' and she did it to captivation.

At his car Peter waited with Shelley; he was wearing an inherited plaid driver's cap and juggling three small rocks, she in breathless captivation.

Alaire knew the susceptibility of Mexican men, and was immune to ordinary flattery; yet there was something exciting about this martial hero's complete captivation.

What Sutherland finds in the landscape is quite different, of course, from Palmer's joy in every cowslip, but it is still a form of captivation.

Change-the"Cynthia of the minute," the morning thought and midnight dream of the dilettanti in human drapery-hasno captivation for the red man.

She liked the man; she thought that he had a good deal she valued to offer her; but as yet she desired only his captivation.

Moreover, one of the difficulties of being agreeable is that the apprehension of offending and the small hope of pleasing destroy all captivation of manner.

Read the thrilling story of her "captivation" and rescue, and then think of Madam Symonds's finery in her gilt trunk in the near-by town.

As I grew up, I heard nothing talked about but conquests, and lovers, and captivations.

The peaceful virtues, under whose influence Nations flourish and mankind rejoice, possess no lasting captivations for the Hero.

Italy, therefore, presented to him manifold captivations-hethought of fiddling, but he talked only of his wife's health.

"But how came about this sudden captivation of heart?"