spellbinding
spel bahyn ding
- v to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
- v attract strongly, as if with a magnet
- v put into a trance
- s attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome
- The only son of a church-mouse-poor Methodist minister, he was at 17 a spellbinding lay evangelist.
- Publisher's Weekly says it's "spellbinding.
- Show biz keeps a hold on us with its near monopoly of beauty, spellbinding us with the power of pulchritude.