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  • The bullet passed from right to left markedly upwards and forwards, enters the right abdominal cavity where it transfixes and mutilates the right kidney, transfixes the right lobe of the liver, transfixes diaphragm, transfixes the lower lobe of the left lung, transfixes sibson fascia on the left, lacerates the left common carotid artery and emerges through wound no. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
  • His friend overlooks her disheartening daily experience because she is transfixed by the status and desirability of her job. Times, Sunday Times
  • Transfixing and intense, their dark, wine-soaked ballads and lock-tite harmonies are addictive.
  • He transfixed the enemy's heart with a spear.
  • Kiko looks up almost painfully and I'm transfixed at the depth of horror I see in his blue eyes.
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  • Her gaze was transfixed by his square shoulders, his rounded pectorals and his flat stomach.
  • The second diver was transfixed with horror, giving Kolchinsky those precious few seconds to rearm himself. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • The circumstances of the case have transfixed America's tabloid press for months. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was transfixed by the jostling crowds, the blasting horns.
  • I was now transfixed in the shininess of the razor.
  • But those New Zealanders not utterly transfixed by the imperial glare of London or Washington have sensed that our national interests lie in a wider kind of collective security than is offered by simple colonial obeisance.
  • How to transfix and realize orient run-through on Three Gorges Reservoir sector, Yangtze has been being a focus and disputation problem of academic circle historically.
  • General George E. Stratemeyer, the Far East Air Force commander, was so transfixed by her appearance that he just sat there “drooling egg down his chin” as she sashayed past his table. A Covert Affair
  • The second diver was transfixed with horror, giving Kolchinsky those precious few seconds to rearm himself. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • And anyway, it seemed the entire country was transfixed by the collapse of the global financial system. Times, Sunday Times
  • I found myself transfixed by the fishmonger's the other day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shoppers in the High Street were confused by the police presence and scores of people were transfixed on the sky as the helicopter hovered above.
  • I was unconversant with the altitudes and energies of sentiment, and was transfixed with inexplicable horror by the symptoms which I now beheld. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
  • Debbie Price stood transfixed at the sight of that tiny figure with those staring, uncomprehending eyes. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage.
  • If a story transfixes Sydney tabloids, then it transfixes me.
  • Thousands are expected to line the streets of Stockholm for a glimpse of the couple, whose unlikely love story has transfixed the nation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her eyes were transfixed with terror.
  • Thirteen months ago, the world was transfixed by the spectacle of a freezing but peaceful revolution unfolding on the streets of Kiev. Times, Sunday Times
  • She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive!
  • And so through the glamour thrown upon them by Indaba-zimbi's will, that Zulu Impi seemed to see me transfixed with an assegai which never touched me. Allan's Wife
  • Alas for poor Bill, more arrows would soon pierce him than transfixed Saint Sebastian.
  • Imagine if he did become president: he could be telling the world, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office, that he had, on a whim, pre-emptively launched a nuclear strike on Belgium, and no one would pay any attention because we would all be transfixed by his hair. Danny Groner: Donald Trump's Hair and the Presidency
  • It can conciliate China and the west, transfix in the ancient and modern, help to enforce and manage state affairs--- The law science blueprint what he describe have democratic, scientific character.
  • Nobody else even batted an eyelid, but I was just transfixed, with chills literally running up my spine.
  • So here she is on this bus, and the elderly gent sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
  • She stood transfixed with fear [ wonder ].
  • She camped it up about her "marvy-poo" beads and dress, and I sat transfixed, destined to join legions who enjoy following the foibles of the well-to-do. Michael Henry Adams: Book Review: Admiring Rich Peoples Houses?
  • Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.
  • No-one else seemed much moved by this, but I was transfixed.
  • METHODS:134 cases of large venous malformation were treated by poly-drug injection, combined with circular transfixation around lesion, laser, and surgery.
  • It was, you may remember, the news that transfixed the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
  • It is a stellar performance - Keith Moon's orgiastic flailing, mugging, and thrashing behind the kit leaves one utterly transfixed, and that's just a quarter of the group's dynamic.
  • But an hour and a half of loser superheroes gimping around in unattractively tight costumes is certainly transfixing even if it isn't entertainment.
  • The stars did what they do, mostly: looked unbudging, transfixed, like cattle asleep in a black pasture, all the restlessness torn out of them, away, done with. The Best American Poetry 2010
  • Dana caught his eyes, his gaze transfixed hers, his eyes were black, and hypnotizing.
  • A third smaller instrument, f f, is seen to pass out of the urethra anterior to the prostate, and after transfixing the right vesicula seminalis external to the neck of the bladder, enters this viscus at a point behind the prostate. Surgical Anatomy
  • And anyway, it seemed the entire country was transfixed by the collapse of the global financial system. Times, Sunday Times
  • The agent sits there, transfixed at the sight before him, and as the music breaks down they change position before it starts up again, once again writhing in and out in perfect sync with their soundtrack.
  • Cannichael's limbs twitched autonomically and she watched, transfixed, until they were still. Blood Test
  • And thine olive, moveless features, transfixed as in a dream, The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • She was transfixed with horror.
  • No frills, no fuss, and the audience seemed transfixed. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a voice utterly unfettered and its luscious purity is a gorgeous gift to the speakers from which I listened transfixed by the variety and high standard of the music!
  • It is said that if we transfix, with a steel needle, a large nerve of a living animal, as the great ischiatic, and let it remain in that condition a suitable time, the needle becomes permanently magnetized. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
  • No frills, no fuss, and the audience seemed transfixed. Times, Sunday Times
  • They're transfixed, except for one boy in the back row who's busy picking the stuffing out of his cushion.
  • The latter property he appears to have transferred to the front of the old brown landau, where the aged coachman, with nose as flat as the ace of clubs, sits, transfixed and rigid as the curls of his caxon, from three till six every Sunday evening, urging on a cabbage-fed pair of ancient prods, which no exertion of the venerable Jehu has been able for the last seven years to provoke into a trot from Hyde park gate to that of Cumberland and back again. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
  • Will we ever know all the reasons why people are transfixed by these images?
  • This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady – mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Little Dorrit
  • Roman outline with Venetian color; but love is fatal to his work, love not merely transfixes his heart, but sends his arrow through the brain, deranges the course of his life, and sets the victim describing the strangest zigzags. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • Whatever you may think of the man, guilty or not, his gumption and continued efforts to clear his name will transfix him as a cartoonish figure in the dark side of the American political system. Kyle Daley: Rod Blagojevich: Mr. Teflon?
  • Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere. Half Broke Horses: Summary and book reviews of Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls.
  • She was transfixed by that veiled emerald gaze, frozen to the spot, unable to move.
  • The water turned off as it reached the top of the sink basin, and Felicity watched transfixed as the dishes washed and dried themselves and put themselves neatly in the drainer rack.
  • I was transfixed, squatting there by the machine, listening above the faint whirr of the engine. TESTIMONIES
  • Across the street, young girls stared transfixed at the voluminous white dresses in the bridal-shop windows.
  • No frills, no fuss, and the audience seemed transfixed. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was transfixed: the sommelier with the handlebar moustache, the lobster sauce poured into soufflés, the gigot of lamb carved tableside.
  • Her gaze was transfixed by his square shoulders, his rounded pectorals and his flat stomach.
  • I found myself transfixed by the fishmonger's the other day. Times, Sunday Times
  • The photographs he took of her naked are the handiwork of a man transfixed by a big, bold, beautiful body. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a yellow bird on the Seagrape terrace, I sit transfixed as the cocktail, a blend of three local rums, accentuates the robust cacophony of tree frogs.
  • Not only is it hard to respire, but hard to comprehend that you are here, making pilgrimage in this utterly transfixing world, more surreal then anything New York City has to offer. Jordan Mallah: My Powerful Pilgrimage to Chidambram, Tamil Nadu, India
  • In utter confidence she begins to sweetly whisper her secrets to the writer, who listens, transfixed.
  • The mournful opening adagio is extremely haunting, images of concentration camps, trains and ghettoes speedily passed through my head as I sat transfixed listening to the Griller's superbly inflexed interpretation.
  • I had been transfixed by the figure of the king and his swordsmen, and had not noticed the other man. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • Surrounded by guests in bolo ties, I watch, transfixed. Thai Noon
  • Virtually everybody in the factory - the boss, or should I say the big cheese, included - is gathered round, transfixed by the Japanese Grand Prix.
  • I was transfixed with fear and the sheer beauty of the scene.
  • Glancing towards the car park, I am transfixed by the sight of a man in a flat cap cleaning our car.
  • The loud light, and the views to the confluence of several estuaries and to several headlands and beyond them the sea are transfixing.
  • By the time I got to the Mexican trip toward the end of the novel, I was transfixed.
  • Behind them he raised his staff crossways, and all the incoming arrows seemed to shatter in mid air, but a few fell through, and one village fell, transfixed by the shaft through his heart.
  • Thousands are expected to line the streets of Stockholm for a glimpse of the couple, whose unlikely love story has transfixed the nation. Times, Sunday Times
  • His eyes were transfixed in a blank stare, not seeming to recognize anything around him, but focused intently upon the licks of flame that jumped and fluttered off of the burning wood beneath the cooking grate.
  • Benjy, at last aware of danger, turned, faced the oncoming juggernaut, transfixed. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • We were transfixed with horror and fascination. Times, Sunday Times
  • But we're simultaneously transfixed by the scale of the event, excited by its uncommon nature.
  • The fisherman transfixed the shark with a harpoon.
  • I was transfixed by the sumptuous food, all new tastes and textures, sprinkled with this magical green stuff that was fresh, pungent and pokey all at the same time.
  • One cannot be sure what it was about the appearance or the behaviour of this insect that led the Greeks to call it, too, mantis; perhaps its habit of adopting a motionless position as if transfixed.
  • Thirteen months ago, the world was transfixed by the spectacle of a freezing but peaceful revolution unfolding on the streets of Kiev. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was too transfixed on his twitch to let that happen.
  • I quickly asked her where the pain was, and while transfixing me with a hard look, she pointed to her chest.
  • Henry's face showed astonishment as the steering wheel snapped and its column transfixed his chest. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • He stood and I thought I saw a slight tremor shake his body, and I was staring at him, transfixed.
  • As those of you who have seen gamelan dance can imagine, I was totally transfixed.
  • When loafing in Miami South Beach, I was transfixed by the neon-coloured art deco hotels on Ocean Drive and, each day, squeezed past laughing tourists taking photographs of one particular building.
  • This work of intensity and passion becomes a transfixing meditation on trust and intimacy.
  • For a moment she stood transfixed in the doorway.
  • The conference delegates were transfixed by her speech.
  • Old-fashioned TV-in-the-morning viewers may have first caught this, along with transfixing video of a boat aswirl in a whirlpool, on the Weather Channel, anticipating their Local on the 8s. TV review: Shocking footage from Japan, amplified by cable news
  • It crept out of the corners of rattish eyes, reading as it ran the sinister circle, and hurried back to its intense, malevolent business of transfixing the quarry in the corner. The Rose in the Ring
  • At night I am transfixed by the gentle motion of the great hull accompanied by the hypnotic creaking of richly-grained wood.
  • METHODS:134 cases of large venous malformation were treated by poly-drug injection, combined with circular transfixation around lesion, laser, and surgery.
  • We were transfixed with horror and fascination. Times, Sunday Times
  • At one point I even forgot the band were there, I was so transfixed with the visuals, which included lots of period footage of railways.
  • Now, however, he was too ill to notice it - how the people in the car began to gasp and sputter, to put handkerchiefs to their noses, and transfix him with furious glances.
  • This unassuming film has reservoirs of riches that have transfixed me three times now.
  • It is the ads regarding slaves that transfix the modern reader. An ad that gives me goose bumps
  • I stood transfixed, staring as he glowed with magnetism and enchanted charm.
  • The conference delegates were transfixed by her speech.
  • She was playing the piano and I stood there transfixed, a little kid with a pin through his jersey from the slums.
  • The tune is looped, that is, repeated over and over, creating an obsessive and transfixing effect. NYT > Home Page
  • Quirk: "Keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece. Casting the Detectives: Crime Fiction's Biggest Movie Stars
  •  Out of the suit, unsprung on a king-sized hotel bed, his skin paler than she had at first thought, she was still transfixed: the stubble along his jaw, the small hard muscles in his calves, his forearms, an odd curling leaf tattooed high on one shoulder. Everything is Fine
  • And I was transfixed, almost hypnotised by the grotesque scene in front of me.
  • Ash-Leigh did up the last button of his moleskins and watched, transfixed. Off the Wall
  • His love of ideas and people were the epoxies that kept him glued to the rest of us, that made each one of us in his orbit feel special, that allowed him to shun the baubles and bangles that transfix so many. Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow
  • With his hands firmly gripping the high back of the pilot's seat, Howard stared transfixed out the sloping front window.
  • I was transfixed by the vision of this Arctic ogress stepping through the gloom.
  • And we stood there just transfixed, as we watched those first television pictures coming in.
  • Ethel stood by, pale and transfixed with horror. The Daisy Chain
  • I should explain that moths are now generally hunted humanely: gone are the days when they were etherized upon a table or transfixed with pins. Wildwood
  • Plunging from his cheetah-drawn chariot, Bacchus looses arrows of longing from his eyes at Ariadne, and transfixes her in mid-flight.
  • They wandered through the Big Room, mesmerized by the translucent, calcite soda straws in the Doll's Theater, transfixed by threads of aragonite — sharp as needles — that spun around The Temple of the Sun. The Devil's Inkwell
  • The show has transfixed practically every TV-watcher since it was first broadcast thanks to Tarrant's skilful helmsmanship.
  • He is transfixed by footage of riots showing on Sky News.
  • His love of ideas and people were the epoxies that kept him glued to the rest of us, that made each one of us in his orbit feel special, that allowed him to shun the baubles and bangles that transfix so many. Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow
  • While she convalesced from her serious illness, she watched the world-famous Whitbread Race on television and was transfixed by the entire event.
  • We were transfixed, and used to wonder whether all the women in England were like that.
  • I let the swing come to a stop and sat there transfixed by the rightness of the idea, but a little staggered at what it might entail.
  • And our man wasn't just standing in the back checking his Blackberry; he was right up front, visibly transfixed by the Montrealers' dramatic balladry.
  • Let's see you puff your pop-gun, Johnny," cries one of the tars, and they swung a champagne cork on a string as a target, twenty yards off; one of the grinning little brutes slipped a dart into his sumpitan, clapped it to his mouth - and in a twinkling there was the cork, jerking on its string, transfixed by the foot-long needle. Flashman's Lady
  • A body lay in the corner, transfixed by a spear.
  • P would wear these semi-see-thru tops and her nipples would be poking through almost skyward in their pertness: they were amazing I tell you, I was transfixed.
  • ‘When it's over I'll bring you somewhere,’ he told me all of a sudden, without turning his head, his eyes transfixed on the rich crimsons and mauves in the sky.
  • Literally every evening the flatmates and I would gather round the TV and watch hour after hour of gymnastics, triathlons, high jump, diving, even a spot of dressage - whatever was on, we were transfixed.
  • As I write this I am picturing the first time I saw them, the first time I was transfixed by their strangeness, their confidence and their sense of mission.
  • Cars are swooshing by every so often and I find myself almost transfixed watching them.
  • She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier.
  • Without turning her character into an icon, the camera seems almost transfixed by the limpid beauty and stillness of Loftus. Times, Sunday Times
  • She grabbed a medium-sized log from the hearthside basket and gently placed it diagonally across the top; she sat back on the couch, watching the flames, transfixed. Last Night at Chateau Marmont
  • Transfixed by a sports agenda of lightish news, the BBC failed to see the real story.
  • A rainbow over the horizon transfixes an Alaskan fisherman hunting in Norton Sound, Alaska, part of the mouth of the Yukon River.
  • I was transfixed by this sentimental and nostalgic portrait of a 1930s Donegal family.
  • And I was transfixed, almost hypnotised by the grotesque scene in front of me.
  • One fair-haired invader lay across the gunwale of a boat, the manner of his death told by the arrow that transfixed his breast. CHAPTER XII
  • Ethel stood by, pale and transfixed with horror. The Daisy Chain
  • Through the night feeds, he sat transfixed, preparing endless cups of tea.
  • She was first transfixed with surprise, and then electrified with delight.
  • It was, you may remember, the news that transfixed the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Somehow she transforms into a siren who transfixes the beasts, literally in the middle of a brawl.
  • This episodic tale, with no particular beginning or end, transfixes the reader with its trips up and down the rabbit hole of language.
  • If people were not transfixed on the band, they at least ceased to idly chatter.
  • Artist Anne Harris has built her reputation as a painter of women who transfix their viewers with projections of uncomfortable and uncanny emotional states. John Seed: Anne Harris: "They start with me..."
  • _transfixio iridis_ of Fuchs; Antonelli's peripheral iritomy; Holth's formation of a cystoid cicatrix; Hern's operation; Terson's sclero-iridectomy; Abadie's ciliarotomy; Ballantyne's incarceration of iris method; Masselon's small equatorial sclerotomy; Simi's equatorial sclerotomy; Galezowski's sclero-choriotomy; excision of the cervical ganglion; removal of the ciliary ganglion; Querenghi's operation of sclero-choriotomy; Bettremieux's simple anterior sclerectomy; Heine's cyclodialysis; Herbert's wedge-isolation operation; Verhoeff's operation with a special sclerotome; Holth's sclerectomy with a punch-forceps; Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
  • Without turning her character into an icon, the camera seems almost transfixed by the limpid beauty and stillness of Loftus. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was practically impossible not to be transfixed by her. Times, Sunday Times
  • She turned her gaze away from the transfixing sight before her and glanced to Cinaed, who was half-dozing in a chair.
  • The elderly gentleman sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
  • But the cusp, cuspis, spiny or spearlike point of a thirteenth century illumination, is not in the least necessary to transfix the parchment. Val d'Arno
  • I was transfixed, wondering if the lead singer was male or female.
  • He stood staring at the ghost, transfixed with terror.
  • The dive boat hurtled at the swell, outboard motors bellowing, the white-knuckled skipper see-sawing the throttle, the rest of us staring transfixed at the crackling green breakers on the bow.
  • Obviously well under twenty years of age, the shaveling advocate was of average height and stocky physique, black-haired and swarthy of complexion: not an advocate who would transfix by sheer physical presence, though his face was pleasant enough. The First Man in Rome
  • At a masterclass given by the English soprano Emma Kirkby, I watched in admiration as a young Dublin counter-tenor, Stephen Shellard, transfixed his audience with his honeyed tone and moving interpretation.
  • _transfixio iridis_ of Fuchs; Antonelli's peripheral iritomy; Holth's formation of a cystoid cicatrix; Hern's operation; Terson's sclero-iridectomy; Abadie's ciliarotomy; Ballantyne's incarceration of iris method; Masselon's small equatorial sclerotomy; Simi's equatorial sclerotomy; Galezowski's sclero-choriotomy; excision of the cervical ganglion; removal of the ciliary ganglion; Querenghi's operation of sclero-choriotomy; Bettremieux's simple anterior sclerectomy; Heine's cyclodialysis; Herbert's wedge-isolation operation; Verhoeff's operation with a special sclerotome; Holth's sclerectomy with a punch-forceps; Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913

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