transfixed
Speech parts
1. transfixed - Adjective
2. transfixed - Verb
4. transfixed - Adjective Satellite
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A thought transfixed me for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truththat love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
A spider lowered itself, fathom by fathom, on a perilous length of thread and was suddenly transfixed in the path of a sunbeam and, for an instant, was a thing of radiant gold.
He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.