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And if that doesn’t ensure the populace is in thrall to the authoritarian narrative, the firemen of the novel burn books, ensuring ideas can’t get into the hands of the people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The 1960s were in thrall to Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

And when she finally reunites with Y for the movie’s sleek “Contempt”-like endgame, both of them in thrall to private luxury, it’s hard to see how they’ll move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Artists may sometimes be tortured by the burden of their genius, but they can never be truly creative under the thrall of psychosis.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

People have too easily forgotten the eras when deadly, disfiguring diseases held communities in thralls of fear and grief.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2019

Male thralls likely were involved in cutting trees, building ships, and rowing those vessels for their Viking masters.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2015

This "Despicable Me" prequel finds the yellow pill-shaped wannabe-supervillain thralls in search of a master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

His own chambers in the Guest Keep had never seemed so chilly, though the thralls had left a brazier burning.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

These were the sons of thralls and salt wives.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

This the sure instinct of his art taught him he might not do, since those tales which held them thralled were not for such as she.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Margaret West Kinney

Rachel.—The wonderful accuracy of the death-scene in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" has been the object of universal praise in London, not merely from the thrilled and thralled public, but from men of art and science.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

This broke the charm which thralled him and sent through his nerves the bracing shock that only a soldier can feel when a hint of coming battle reaches him.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe

A girl thralled by the mystery of conception awakes at morn in palpitations, seeing visions.

From Modern Painting by George (George Augustus) Moore

How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol

Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.

From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey