captivator

Aerospace is a motivator and captivator in schools, not for all kids, but it is the "spark" that will send many kids off into STEM Careers.

Wayne Hale: NASA Can Provide the Inspiration - NASA Watch 2009

Then Bernard, thinking he might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, became all the more engrossed with his captivator, and it was in at one of strong discontent that he exclaimed, as they were returning, -- "Why, there's Alec and Janet Cameron coming down to the house!"

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

"Mischief-maker, heart captivator, and worth her weight in gold," finished the familiar voice which Peace could not quite place in her memory.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

His errand was to produce a deadly quarrel between the captive soul and the wicked one, its captivator.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

The purpose of the poem seems to be to magnify the prowess of this once famous king as a captivator of the hearts and loving attentions of the fair sex.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

It was necessary to link you to us and we employed our foremost captivator, the dandy of two countries, the international Lothario, the Viscount-baron Gratian von

The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859

'Nickleby,' said Mr Mantalini in tears, 'you have been made a witness to this demnition cruelty, on the part of the demdest enslaver and captivator that never was, oh dem!

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

It's not that we need another reminder of the demoralizing economy, but director Silvio Soldini's modest new captivator -- about a middle-aged Genoa couple whose relationship begins to buckle under the weight of financial duress -- exposes the tenuous politics of potentially every marriage with perceptive nuances, not the archetypal plate-throwing hysteria or maudlin austerity of countless European art-house dramas.

GreenCine Daily 2009

It's not that we need another reminder of the demoralizing economy, but director Silvio Soldini's modest new captivator -- about a middle-aged Genoa couple whose relationship begins to buckle under the weight of financial duress -- exposes the tenuous politics of potentially every marriage with perceptive nuances, not the archetypal plate-throwing hysteria or maudlin austerity of countless European art-house dramas.

GreenCine Daily 2009

It's not that we need another reminder of the demoralizing economy, but director Silvio Soldini's modest new captivator -- about a middle-aged Genoa couple whose relationship begins to buckle under the weight of financial duress -- exposes the tenuous politics of potentially every marriage with perceptive nuances, not the archetypal plate-throwing hysteria or maudlin austerity of countless European art-house dramas.

GreenCine Daily 2009