The problem of interstellar travel was so enthralling that it sometimes became an obsession even to a fairly well-developed Utopian world. This could only occur if in the constitution of that world there was something unwholesome, some secret and unfulfilled hunger impelling the beings. The race might then become travel-mad.

The woman is very beautiful. When she passes, men are enthralled by her beauty.

I did not actually need to rest at all, but nor did I wish to continue my travels right away, for I had become enthralled by great curiosity.

I find myself being enthralled by her reaction each time I replay it.

Sami was enthralled with Layla.

The children were enthralled by the fairy tale.

'Once had your hands,' said Calchas, 'dared profane / Minerva's gift, dire plagues' (which Heaven forestall / or turn on him) 'should Priam's realm sustain; / but if by Trojan aid it scaled your wall, / proud Asia then should Pelops' sons enthrall, / and children rue the folly of the sire.'"

In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.