enthrallment

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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

It isn’t just Mary’s enthrallment to Vogel that “The Foundling” probes so well, but the way someone like Vogel can not only thrive under patriarchy but perpetuate it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

With beauty alive-and-well within the eyes of the beholders, it is a beautiful to see in these comments everything from enthrallment to condemnation.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2016

Gibney confesses to his own enthrallment to his iPhone, how “when it was in my pocket, for every idle moment, my hand was drawn to it like Frodo’s hand to the ring.”

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

Subjection -- N. subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality†; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest. service; servitude, servitorship†; tendence†, employ, tutelage, clientship†; liability &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark