Transfixing

None of the storytellers could be described as transfixing yarn spinners. ❋ By STEPHEN HOLDEN (2011)

Opening his eyes, amazed to find himself still alive, Shevatas saw the monster heaving and twisting its slimy form in fantastic contortions, the sword transfixing its giant jaws. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

Its smooth, creamy pages are liberally strewn with engravings, portraits of many of the members international and no longer exclusively male, and illustrations of artifacts from the Society Archives -- including a photograph of Newton's death mask, which editor Bill Bryson found "transfixing" on his tour of the basement storeroom. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

On reading the book I saw these passages (assuming we are talking about the same sections of the novel) in a very different way and found these not only "transfixing" (for want of a better word) but central to what the novel was about (nature of reality, what is sentient, what do you really know). ❋ Unknown (2003)

Society Archives -- including a photograph of Newton's death mask, which editor Bill Bryson found "transfixing" on his tour of the basement storeroom. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2010)

Not only is it hard to respire, but hard to comprehend that you are here, making pilgrimage in this utterly transfixing world, more surreal then anything New York City has to offer. ❋ Jordan Mallah (2011)

The iconoclastic director's long-awaited fifth feature is in many ways his simplest yet most challenging work, a transfixing odyssey through time and memory that melds a young boy's 1950s upbringing with a magisterial rumination on the Earth's origins. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In "Stasiland," Anna Funder interviews a transfixing cast of characters from the country's horrifying past. ❋ Charles Cumming (2011)

That year, on a Polydor compilation, I heard the transfixing opening riff of Hey Joe, as well as James Last's brassy version of Never on a Sunday. ❋ Amit Chaudhuri (2010)