He turned the croc over unceremoniously and it lay transfixed, as if in a trance.
Yet the world has connived in the illegality, transfixed by Indonesia's strategic importance and commercial potential.
Yet the problem that has transfixed the country is, very understandably, the problem of crime.
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But Klansmen, he says, are no longer transfixed by the single issue of race.
When Gary Stimac visited a little Dallas outfit called RocketLogix in October of 2000, he was transfixed.
In the early day of television, Americans sat transfixed as the first sets were delivered to homes.
From Final Fantasy VII and Street Fighter to Kingdom Hearts, Grandia and Chrono Trigger, I was transfixed.
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The speaker of Psalm 27 seems transfixed with the terror of potential annihilation.
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Then what had once transfixed the world became increasingly routine, especially after NASA successfully launched the space shuttle program.
Better solutions will come not from disingenuous and demagogic politicians transfixed myopically on re-election, but from candid and prescient statesmen.
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From November 26 to 29, 2008, the world was transfixed by a series of terrorist attacks in India's largest city.
The office interior--a loft-like space with brick walls--is crammed with desks inhabited primarily by young people transfixed by their computers.
Russian media was transfixed by the case, but not necessarily in a good way, according to Russian journalist Alexei Kovalev.
Channelling Grace Kelly, she inhabits the stage like a beam of light, rendering everyone else as hapless and transfixed as moths.
They found themselves transfixed by the paradoxically lifelike renderings of the slain of Antietam that Mathew Brady exhibited in his studio on Broadway.
In the story, he catches sight of himself in the forest pool and becomes transfixed by the image the still water reflects back.
Consolidation might have happened long ago, were governments not as transfixed by the prestige of cars as are the people who drive them.
Transfixed by Uganda's economic success in the south, outsiders neither knew nor cared about a bush war the other side of the Nile.
After being enticed along to her first lesson by a friend who promised a bevy of attractive men to look at, Yu was transfixed.
William Windham and Richard Pococke were transfixed by the grandeur of 15, 781-foot Mont Blanc and the four-mile-long glacier known as the Mer de Glace.
The BBC's Ana Pisarro says the case has transfixed the Brazilian media, combining as it does all the ingredients of a Brazilian TV soap opera.
An hour past his usual bedtime, Mason was awake and transfixed by the glowing orange light on the oxygen monitor taped to his finger, ET-style.
The typical effect, when one watches Curry play, is to become so transfixed by his laser-sharp shooting that it's no longer possible to focus on anything else.
James, who was 11 years old at the time, said he can still remember watching Francique's 400-meter final on television with his family and being totally transfixed.
Moreover, some Iranian Kurds have been transfixed by the image of autonomy, no matter how imperfect, that they see on the other side of the Iraqi border.
Her husband became transfixed with bin Laden when he appeared on television calling for jihad against the United States and other countries who oppressed Muslims, she said.
Claudia Acuna grew up in Chile a singer of many stripes, and was especially transfixed by the improvisation of musicians like Erroll Garner and Thelonious Monk.
All those who saw us playing with the creature were immediately transfixed, be it due to nostalgia for Furbies gone by, or fascination with this strange new creature.
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Celebrities at the London premiere too said they were transfixed.
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