Captivated used in a sentence

Captivated in a sentence as an adjective

I liked reading about how this idea captivated you - best of luck with it!

I'm quite torn: I simply can't decide what portion of this post I'm most captivated by. Is it the fact that John knows the exact date from over four years ago that he was booted from facebook?

Every few years these photos cross my path and every time I'm just as captivated as when I saw them as a kid. The further we get from that era, the more remarkable the accomplishment feels.

I think many, like me, have followed along in this heart braking journey and Eric's authentic words have captivated us. Eric, my deepest condolences.

I understand why people are captivated by things like comets and why they'd want to attempt these extraordinary feats. It's exciting and fun and there are few joys that can match doing something that's never been done before.

Most seed investments are lost entirely; Instagram rose from the ashes and captivated millions of people. Why shouldn't they be rewarded accordingly?

But sure enough, when I read it a year later, I was captivated by the forgotten person and experiences on the page. - You can trust that the activity of writing will help the present you to collect and develop his thoughts.

I think it would be hard for a teen boy not to be captivated by "anabasis aka the Persian expedition" which is a mere 2500 years old. Blood n guts and high adventure in a crazy old world on the other side of the planet 2500 years ago.

Eventually, my innate sense of beauty captivated me again, so that when I look at mountains I am filled with wonder and a deep sense of awe. This despite the fact that I still know precisely how they got there, scientifically speaking.

This was the first time I was captivated by computers, programming and pure unadulterated geekery.

After being captivated by a "company" named East India Company for 200 years the governance in 70's and 80'a in India makes perfect sense to me. Remember post independence India was a broken nation.

However, I can't help but feel captivated by it. I have a few theories on why this may be so: I do like that my books are tangible possessions, that I can look back at the notes my father made into them in college, that I can find an old train pass I used as a bookmark that brings back memories.

His example of being captivated by a good speaker, but on further reflection realizing how little content was conveyed, is a case-in-point. You lose the important signal of audience engagement with your ideas if you dazzle them through charisma.

It's a shame that short-sighted investors are too captivated by competition to realize how cooperative Silicon Valley really is. There are only a handful of situations in tech where crushing your competition is actually a positive strategic move.

Startups typically need to build web apps that are so customized that it doesn't make sense to use a CMS. I found writing code at a lower level really helped me learn a lot more and captivated my interest. No longer was I having to play by the maddening rules of the CMS. Its more challenging but more rewarding and helps you learn whats really going on behind the surface.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them.

Even today, the whole technology industry is captivated by the misconception that vulnerabilities somehow cost some fraction --- maybe 1/3, maybe 1/4 --- of a senior full-time dev salary. After all, they're generated by people who would otherwise be occupying that kind of headcount.

I honestly believe America is captivated right now by fear itself. It could be nuclear fallout from Japan, or Islam, or H1N1, or drug cartels in Mexico, or Canadian healthcare, or communists, or the Arab Spring, or any number of other things that for all intents are purposes are almost entirely non-threatening to the average citizen on the street.

If I were to show them an Arduino blinking out a message in Morse code using an LED, they assume that it's over their head and could care less how it was done, but when I show a simple demo using the Mindstorms display everyone's captivated. Each Mindstorms brick costs $200-$250, and parts can add hundreds of dollars to this cost. Since the price of the MicroView is 4-5 times smaller, there can be 4-5 times more people captivated by them - not to mention how school districts that have fewer funds can now introduce students to programming as well.