enmesh
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In some of the book’s finest moments, Sheff explores her creative emergence, particularly her brash efforts to enmesh herself with Fluxus, the international art movement that celebrated the act of performance for performance’s sake.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
Not all bills before the committee Monday sought to enmesh religion with education.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Like Bernstein, he has achieved genuine civic stature — and like Bernstein, enough of one to occasionally enmesh him in controversy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
If he doesn’t, don’t get guilted or coerced into joining him as he continues to enmesh his life with his mother’s dramatic antics.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2018
He knew that given rope Lionel would enmesh himself still further.
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Writing to our senses as well as the characters enmeshes the viewers in Jimmy’s world, but Odenkirk’s pathos-soaked scoundrel makes the show breathe and kick.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2017
But what happens when it becomes harder and harder to tell the two apart -- where every attempt at definition just enmeshes us further?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2016
The Red Mass has generated criticism over the decades, in part for the extent to which it enmeshes the high court with church affairs, and some members of the Supreme Court also have their qualms.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2015
These contrasting paint textures give the works a firm foothold in reality and reward up-close viewing, which enmeshes the eye in both their spatial paradoxes and everyday moods.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
Soon will the sunbeams last radiant shining Trackless be hurled where the Autumn wind blows, Slumber enmeshes my soul and the darkness— Love, it is time for repose!
From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
When Joe Biden was president, the relationship was very enmeshed, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Helping your mother figure out how she got into this mess is not tantamount to becoming emotionally enmeshed in her problems.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
After all, digitization means that tech is now enmeshed with the rule of law, trade, and economics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
He is enmeshed in the consequences of the gross blunder he made by going to war assuming an easy victory.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
She found Poppy sitting on the floor of the shop, enmeshed in a tangle of yellow yarn.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
Your partner's actions push that one-to-one through a third person, erasing boundaries and enmeshing you all.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021
For the actors, encountering and enmeshing with the community was an eye-opening experience.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2021
An inchoate show about an inchoate time makes a kind of sense, an enmeshing of content and form.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
Late today she even succeeded in enmeshing the scorpion’s deadly stinger, attached to his lashing tall.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2018
A sense of delicious well-being possessed her, enmeshing thought in hazy lethargy, quieting pulse and mind.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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