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enthrallment

[en-thrawl-muhnt] / ɛnˈθrɔl mənt /


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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

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

With beauty alive-and-well within the eyes of the beholders, it is a beautiful to see in these comments everything from enthrallment to condemnation.

From New York Times Jul. 13, 2016

The words awoke John from his enthrallment and she saw by his glance toward her that he did not comprehend their meaning.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.

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




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