fetter
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The clarity and lack of fetter is characteristic of Ullmann’s way of seeing the world in prose and, in this case, of seeing the self as a third person.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
At its core, it serves to moderate the thrill for new ideas and fetter decision-making with long debates.
From Slate ● May 16, 2017
At another point, the actor becomes one of two mortarboard-wearing orators who pull at the straps that fetter two shocked listeners.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2016
And the commission stated it was not seeking to fetter the charity's discretion to fund Cage "for all time regardless of changing circumstances".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2015
In the black iron fetter about his wrist, the ruby seemed to pulse.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
“We seek a new revolution,” he said, “not less important, perhaps, in its consequences than that of 1776—a revolution in letters; a shaking off of the fetters of the mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
"I just couldn't break away from the fetters."
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023
Its stage is where King Kong broke his fetters in the 1933 movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
She meets a ragtag group of compatriots who offer what aid they can as she navigates carnival prisons, fiery foes and the confusing fetters of the human form.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Even with the fetters gone, Reek moved like an old man.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Both were fettered by entrenched social expectations, leaving little room for anyone who wanted to chart a different course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
New emblem’s meh, the ex-term smelt; The bevy, recent-Red-Type-Pelt — They’re fettered, hexed; the shell needs shed.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
Despite efforts from the Valkyries and Odin’s ravens, this Viking action art piece is fettered to the ground by the demands of the studio gods.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
But because one’s body is not as free as it was, does it follow that the mind should be so fettered as well?
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
No refuge between those black stalks, even if she weren’t fettered.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
In fact, this is not aid but a handout of leftovers from the master's table made conditional upon fettering obligations .
From Time Magazine Archive
With iron censorship fettering the Press last week, shocking reports circulated by word of mouth throughout the Peninsula and the Isles of Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
"To make her sleep?" exclaimed Ormond, in a fettering and affrighted accent.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
When he had finished, Tagala began to strain uneasily at the cords fettering his hands and feet.
From The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon
No wonder she flies from his fettering arms!
From Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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