thralldom

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Critics and Cassandras of our thralldom to secondhand experience via the Internet are hardly scarce — Jaron Lanier, Evgeny Morozov, and Clifford Stoll are only among the most cogent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022

Her characters�Chloe, Marjorie and Grace�do indeed twitch to nature's rhythms, but the thralldom of their bodies is endlessly amusing to their unfettered minds.

From Time Magazine Archive

This backdrop contains vivid scenes -- among them, the subjugation of an immense subcontinent and ancient cultures by an upstart island, and the upheavals that result when this thralldom is abruptly ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can readily understand how anyone under the influence of kingo could be dragged into a gruesome form of thralldom.

From Time Magazine Archive

In John, a god with power to create worlds is bound up in the fate of mortals for thirty years, and only escapes thralldom when the spell is broken at the marriage feast.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by Reber, George