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
Lynch’s enthrallment with the pop culture of his own youth can sometimes make his films feel hermetic.
From Slate ● May 3, 2017
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
In that first jolt of surprise and enthrallment, it felt as if David Milch had created “Deadwood” just for me — I’ve always loved westerns — twisting the genre to invent something new.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015
I had a vague consciousness of being wakened from time to time, and of taking something from Mrs. Yocomb's hand, and then sinking back into an enthrallment of blessed and refreshing slumber.
From A Day of Fate by Edward Payson Roe
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
