Tom Chatfield

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

British Author

Viktor E. Frankl

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 truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Austrian Psychologist

Ariel Garten

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Canadian Artist

Sarah Hall

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

English Writer

Robert Greene

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you're supposed to do.

English Playwright

Stephen Hendry

When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.

Scottish Entertainer

Peter Benchley

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

American Author

Isabel Yosito

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

American Artist

Amber Heard

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

American Actress

Raymond E. Feist

As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.

Use 'transfix' to describe someone completely focused, as if frozen in place.

Intense Focus

'Transfix' often describes strong emotions metaphorically, not just physical immobility.

Metaphorical Use

Commonly used in context of negative or shocking situations that command attention.

Negative Situations

Use it to describe an actual action where something sharp goes through an object or person.

Literal Piercing

Often associated with violence or combat, suitable in historical or fantasy contexts.

Violent Imagery

Evokes a strong visual image and can be quite dramatic or traumatic in stories.

Strong Visuals

 In my junior year, my computer graphics professor showed us these wonderful short films. It was the first computer animation any of us had ever seen. I watched these films in wonder, transfixed, fireworks going off in my head, thinking, "That is what I want to do with my life."

The magic ingredient...

 when they finally come face to face with the statue they both freeze dead in their tracks the first guy we'll call him adam is transfixed by the beauty of the perfect human form second guy we'll call him bill is transfixed by embarrassment it's staring at the

The moral roots of...

 Ourselves. Much of the time we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves out into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves. We've cluttered ourselves up with all this.

Ariel Garten: Know...

 of light in the sky. I'm not sure I even knew the meaning of the word 'science' then, but I wanted somehow to immerse myself in all that grandeur. I was gripped by the splendor of the universe, transfixed

Seven Wonders of the New...

 can climb Hills by the way about the back of your head you should be thinking where is the energy source you can have them line up like a soldier's and you can literally turn them into a transfixed dance

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us,