‘The children listened with rapt attention to the old storyteller as he captivated their minds with a tale from his past - one that Adam himself knew a good deal about.’.‘About 800 children drawn from various schools listened in rapt attention and went home with material on traffic rules and regulations.’.‘But though this suggests how little Gabriel understands his wife's rapt attention, we do not need to know that in this sequence.’.
‘He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery.’.‘It was also reported that you spent the earlier part of the afternoon singing for your preschool mates, who stood in rapt attention around you.’.‘Swans have been a source of rapt fascination for me since I was a child, and it was a life's dream come true to own one - let alone seven.’.‘The world depicted is a fascinating one, and we gaze upon it with rapt attention, even as the disquieting mood of the film keeps us ill at ease.’.‘With rapt fascination I watched the ritualized escape attempt and re-entrapment of the hero every week.’.‘The behaviour of animals in captivity was explained, as the students listened in rapt attention.’.
‘A group of girls underneath a TV set gazed up, rapt.’.‘Many people were rapt and stayed for the whole hour before it looped around.’.‘Two interjections from the rapt audience render the visiting 28-year-old former pupil particularly speechless.’.‘The Sheldonian, recently refurbished, was packed with a refreshingly young audience, which remained rapt throughout.’.‘The journalist did not exit from productions at intermission but stayed to observe a rapt audience, most of whom had never before seen a drama or comedy of any kind.’.