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enthrallment

[en-thrawl-muhnt] / ɛnˈθrɔl mənt /


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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

Even “O, o, o, o” becomes an occasion for enthrallment.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2020

During a break from production at the motel, where amenities include free WiFi and a pool, Hawley refers to that enthrallment as motivation for the show’s L.A. romp this season,

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2017

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

One momentary revelation as to how she regarded them would have been enough to release him from his foolish enthrallment.

From Mary Marston by George MacDonald

Spielberg has created, with skill equal to Dickens’s, the strangeness felt by an innocent—the bewildering oddity, the physical enthrallments and terror of something entirely unprecedented.

From The New Yorker Jan. 8, 2017

Andrew Stanton, director of the animated enthrallments Finding Nemo and WALL·E, has finally brought the grandfather of all time- and space-traveling American supermen to pure movie form in John Carter.

From Time Mar. 8, 2012

The 63rd edition of Cannes unearthed no masterpieces, few enthrallments and a lot of dead wood from the not-quite-masters of world cinema.

From Time May 22, 2010

"A glittering shambles/ of enthrallments and futilities," goes one complaint; "a warren of untruth, a propped/ vacuity."

From Time Magazine Archive




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