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
So this idea that there’s nothing Congress can do without usurping judicial independence is also a form of enthrallment that we’ve succumbed to.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023
Are art critics people, prone to the familiar flurries of aversion and enthrallment?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
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
The dance began, and Sybil heard no more; but she had heard enough to convince her, if she had not been convinced before, of her guest’s treachery and her husband’s enthrallment.
From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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
