enmesh
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In some of the book’s finest moments, Sheff explores her creative emergence, particularly her brash efforts to enmesh herself with Fluxus, the international art movement that celebrated the act of performance for performance’s sake.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
Not all bills before the committee Monday sought to enmesh religion with education.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Although her adventures eventually strain credulity, through her script — inspired by real events — Mihai manages to completely enmesh the viewer in a story that combines social drama with thriller, espionage and vigilante elements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
That in turn would enmesh Israel in the unwanted drudgery of day-to-day governance, an outcome Israel wanted to avoid, he said.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
The wide-flung net will, sooner or later, enmesh F. He may be seen and recognised or, what is more likely, he will be betrayed by one of his associates.
From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by George Dilnot
Writing to our senses as well as the characters enmeshes the viewers in Jimmy’s world, but Odenkirk’s pathos-soaked scoundrel makes the show breathe and kick.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2017
But what happens when it becomes harder and harder to tell the two apart -- where every attempt at definition just enmeshes us further?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2016
The Red Mass has generated criticism over the decades, in part for the extent to which it enmeshes the high court with church affairs, and some members of the Supreme Court also have their qualms.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2015
These contrasting paint textures give the works a firm foothold in reality and reward up-close viewing, which enmeshes the eye in both their spatial paradoxes and everyday moods.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
Soon will the sunbeams last radiant shining Trackless be hurled where the Autumn wind blows, Slumber enmeshes my soul and the darkness— Love, it is time for repose!
From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
“Maybe the answer was enmeshed in the question,” she tells readers in “The Butterfly Season,” a roving account of her adventure, first published in Denmark last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the series, they play a husband and wife whose marriage is struggling, and they become enmeshed with a local TV weatherman, played by Jason Bateman, who was also nominated in the category.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
These two countries are longtime military and strategic allies, with deeply enmeshed economies and several thousand miles of minimally guarded border.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
I get the sense it’s not that enmeshed now.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
If Ash had seen him, she might have thought that he was a fairy, for all around him the Wood seemed enmeshed in a web of illusion.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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Your partner's actions push that one-to-one through a third person, erasing boundaries and enmeshing you all.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021
For the actors, encountering and enmeshing with the community was an eye-opening experience.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2021
Late today she even succeeded in enmeshing the scorpion’s deadly stinger, attached to his lashing tall.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2018
That's where things really fall apart in Richard D'Ovidio's script: Aside from the moral madness of enmeshing a minor in such proceedings, the after-hours gallery infiltration proves a rote, tension-free affair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
O, he knew that there was a net of intrigue enmeshing him, but it was so very fine that he could not pick up the smallest thread whereby to unravel it.
From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
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