Definition of "spellbinding" []

• Engrossing, fascinating, gaining rapt attention. (adjective)

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• "Gruber continued to raise money for Israel and became known as a spellbinding speaker, especially on the subject of the Haven experience."
• "Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son."
• "He's author of "James Dean, Mutant King," which one critic referred to as a spellbinding portrait of James Dean, had a lot of sources and new facts."