enthrallment

Video games engage children with continuous action, a concept known as "enthrallment," that raises the threshold for engagement, Freedman said.

More Video Games, Fewer Books at Schools? | Impact Lab 2007

And yet the adoration and enthrallment of Obama, at least so among the committed left and the marginal voter who is too easily co-opted, continues apace.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform 2010

Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.

Hemingway's Libidinous Feast 2009

Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.

Hemingway's Libidinous Feast 2009

Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.

Hemingway's Libidinous Feast 2009

For a man planning annihilation and world-wide domination, traffic safety would seem an odd preoccupation, but such was the Führer's enthrallment with all things automotive and his dedication to motorizing a German public poised at the starting line of the Thousand Year Reich.

What a Long Strange Trip Patrick Cooke 2012

But these experiences reflect enthrallment with your own feeling of being "in love," much more than a response to the reality of the other.

Douglas LaBier: Why Your Love Life Is a Version of Adolescent Romance 2010

And in your state of enthrallment, your heart flutters -- like a lovesick adolescent, you can't help but wonder if maybe she likes you too.

Hope, Hype, and the Many Faces of Barack Obama Hamdan Azhar 2010

But by now whatever initial enthrallment I'd had with the idea of the BeautifulPeople brand had turned to boredom, and the repulsion set in.

Jill Di Donato: Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful 2010

And in your state of enthrallment, your heart flutters -- like a lovesick adolescent, you can't help but wonder if maybe she likes you too.

Hamdan Azhar: Hope, Hype, and the Many Faces of Barack Obama 2010