Transfixed

Those that had stood in transfixed legions weeping with beatific emotion on election night turned into an angry mob saying how "disappointed" they were that they'd not all immediately been translated to heaven the moment Obama stepped into the White House! ❋ Frank Schaeffer (2010)

Washington remains 'transfixed' by Iraq, though the consequences of inattention to Afghanistan are severe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dancers Faye O'Neil and Katrina Redfern said the singer was "transfixed" as she watched them perform a sexy routine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

British pole-dances at the club, Faye O'Neill and Katrina Redfern, said the 41-year-old gay icon was 'transfixed' on the girls, The Sun reported. ❋ Unknown (2010)

British pole-dancers Faye O'Neill, 27 and Katrina Redfern, 20, told how the Australian beauty was "transfixed" as she watched them perform a sexy routine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And reporting from the Czech Republic, noted that the audience of 200,000 that Obama addressed Sunday was "transfixed" and interviewed a woman in the crowd who had gotten up at 4 a.m. to "make sure she could get a glimpse of Mr. Obama." ❋ Unknown (2009)

De Cor. 67 merely reports that he was "transfixed"), and in fact in my Alexander of Macedon (1974), p. 69, I describe it as a "spearthrust" myself; but this slip, if slip it is, cannot compare with Mr. Lewis's own suggestion that Philip was wounded by a sarissa, the Macedonian weapon par excellence. ❋ Lewis, Roger L. (1981)

Mom told me that when I had been away on tour, Josh had been transfixed in front of the television, watching the Michael Jackson video Moonwalker, day in, day out. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

Our media has been transfixed with hackers, and it would seem, liberally supplied by them too. ❋ Loz Kaye (2011)