What's the difference between enamor and enthrall?

Enamor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
  • (2) It's interesting because even as some of the Big Green groups have gotten enamored of the ideas of ecosystem services and natural capital, there's this counter-narrative coming from the Global South and Indigenous communities.
  • (3) One of them, Tim Chogovadze, a longtime fan of Italian football, became enamored with Chelsea years ago, when the team contained a strong dose of Italian talent.
  • (4) One day after Donald Trump reiterated his admiration for Vladimir Putin , saying the Russian president was a better leader than Barack Obama, Republicans on Capitol Hill struggled to explain why their party’s presidential nominee was enamored with a man they have long cast as one of America’s primary foes.
  • (5) What is it about Kobe Bryant that the citizens of Los Angeles and Laker fans worldwide are so enamored with?
  • (6) The pope does seem to be enamored with solutions that are not pro-American in the slightest,” said Dom Giordano, a WPHT (1210 AM) talkshow host.
  • (7) Enamored of technology, we may at times use it unwisely.

Enthrall


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regardless of one’s political leanings, the resulting images are spellbinding – to quote Guardian correspondent Toby Manhire: “The album, which has been publicly made available on Facebook , is enthralling.
  • (2) It takes your heart a little bit.” He had everyone enthralled.
  • (3) Ibrahimovic, so languid, had looked an embarrassment at times in this enthralling team, but everything Barça created began from the back.
  • (4) It took Maria Sharapova , four majors to the good and five years older, three hours and two minutes to subdue the 22-year-old over three enthralling sets.
  • (5) He remembers picking up an atlas (he was very interested in maps) and becoming enthralled by a solar system diagram at the back.
  • (6) She has sold more records than any other woman, enthralled fans at the Super Bowl and starred on the big screen as Eva Perón.
  • (7) But here we have an enthralling MLS playoff between perennial regular season titans Sporting Kansas City and, how should we put this, an overachieving New England Revolution.
  • (8) He was by turn patient, stubborn and just too damn good, winning a contest marked by swearing, stare-downs, minor tantrums, an odd time violation and some artful tennis on a chill, still night on Rod Laver Arena, with the man himself among an enthralled audience.
  • (9) Koenig’s original investigation has become a more awkward, enthralling, aggravating investigation into the nature of truth.
  • (10) Then there were the imported dramas broadcast because they were weighty, such as 1984's Heimat , an enthralling dramatisation of ordinary lives in 20th-century Germany.
  • (11) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
  • (12) This was an enthralling stalemate both managers felt they could have won, but each seemed content with a point earned largely through excellent performances from defenders prepared time and again to throw their bodies on the line.
  • (13) The 2014 NCAA March Madness tournament opened with an enthralling upset that saw the sixth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes beaten by their neighbours from Dayton.
  • (14) On July 14, France's glamorous presidential couple enthralled the world.
  • (15) As an enthralling, thrilling, romantic, beautiful, fun, weird piece of art, few things have felt more relevant.
  • (16) While Westminster was enthralled by the eruption over the policy between Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and former Department for Education special adviser Dominic Cummings – with accusations flying that Clegg wanted Cummings charged under the official secrets act – school heads say they have been left to fend for themselves in parts of the country.
  • (17) That’s how, five years after I lost my friend, I gave away most of my belongings and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco , the setting of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, which had long enthralled me.
  • (18) In the mid 70s, the couple met Jackson Browne, who was immediately enthralled by Zevon's music.
  • (19) He could enthrall you with his lifelong passion for William Blake, his new-found interest in gardening, his arguments for proportional representation.
  • (20) By this point, the faithful are enthralled, the curious baffled and the traditionalists utterly bemused.

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