enrapture

Are you really so enraptured by a deep film voice?

You need to delight, surprise and enrapture people.

Forget about policies and plans, just enrapture them with a good story.

We're enraptured by the fairytale fantasies that Korean dramas spin, because we have none of that.

It captures the feeling of being completely enraptured with computers when you're a kid. Brought back some memories for me."Here" has been slow lately.

It is far too easy to become so enraptured in your own schemes that you forget how valuable it is to be in good accord with others and to have a good name.

Seriously, people on HN are enraptured when Linus Torvalds writes things that are about eight billion times more personally hostile than that.

Are you hiring?This sort of stuff tends to get imposed from above, or by busybodies enraptured with ideas and theory as opposed to practicality.

I've noted redthrowaway to be oddly but harmlessly enraptured by morsels of Reddit inside baseball[1].

Seeking capital is, to a degree inherently competitive, but even early stage enraptures are more often than not willing to help each other succeed.

I don't have as much time now but every once in awhile I'll go on a Rocket League or Overwatch binge and I wonder if modern games really do enrapture us more than 8-bit games ever could.

Here's a classic article touching on similar topics:"Before he was two years old, it is said, Wayne Gretzky watched hockey games on television, enraptured, and slid his stockinged feet on the linoleum in imitation of the players, then cried when the game was over, because he could not understand how something so sublime should have to come to an end. This was long before Gretzky was any good at the game itself, or was skilled in any of its aspects[...] But what he had was what the physical genius must have before any of the other layers of expertise fall into place: he had stumbled onto the one thing that, on some profound aesthetic level, made him happy.

As a person in the world, keep an open mind and accept that programmers are still quite high on some cyberspace utopianism and a precambrian-esque explosion of capabilities, and that just as much as you feel alienated by them, they feel alienated that a wider world excuses itself from recursing the depth and breadth of what enraptures the techie.