transfixing
Meaning
of Transfix
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
BAR International Series; 275. : 220–366 Legacy Legends The King of the Huns transfixing Saint Ursula with an arrow after she refused to marry him, in Caravaggio 's 1610 " The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula ".
Chiaroscuro was practiced long before he came on the scene, but it was Caravaggio who made the technique a dominant stylistic element, darkening the shadows and transfixing the subject in a blinding shaft of light.
Having said all this, and despite Cruz et al. scoring some significant debating points against Trump, Trump remains a transfixing, entertaining presence, the master of colloquial rhetoric studded with humor and telling detail.
Set against the high-tension strings and jarringly funky synthesizers of Greenwood’s score, the film is transformative and transfixing.
If you’re ever in southern Canada and witness shimmering strands of transfixing purple light strung about the night sky, there’s a name for what you’re experiencing, and it’s “Steve.”