(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.
Spellbound
Definition:
(a.) Bound by, or as by, a spell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.
(2) Alfred Hitchcock also used Peck effectively in Spellbound (1945), where his outward solidity masks a serious phobia.
(3) Last year's final, won by acrobatic troupe Spellbound, averaged 12.3 million viewers, according to overnight figures .
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) When pressed, he refers to a film called Spirit, which could be Spellbound, and another called The Crazy Man, which surely has to be Psycho (although the title rather gives the game away).
(6) The 50-minute address held the chamber, which was packed with ambassadors and supreme court justices as well as senators and House representatives, spellbound, a feat seldom seen even during presidents’ State of the Union speeches.
(7) Malcolm Turnbull’s peacock performance on Monday night’s Q&A kept his adoring audience spellbound.
(8) A scattered collection of Scots watched, headed by the loud knights Sean Connery and Alex Ferguson – as well Andy's delighted mother, Judy – as a final that arrived a day late due to a rain-made postponement, the fifth here in five years, held New Yorkers spellbound.
(9) At a screening of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, my son Barney, who was eight, was spellbound, but my eldest daughter, Rosie, then nine years old, kept trudging off to the toilets.
(10) They are interspersed with trees: even they, according to the poet Ovid's account of the tale, were held spellbound by his song.
(11) Artist Salvador Dalí was endlessly excited by Freud's work on dreams, while film-makers such as Alfred Hitchcock, who made the thrillers Spellbound and Marnie in response to Freud, were directly influenced by the clinical doctrines of psychiatry and psychology.
(12) I was spellbound by Brook's distillation of the story back to its essence: a love tragedy.
(13) In films such as Spellbound (1945), Knock on Wood (1954), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), They Might be Giants (1971), and The Man Who Loved Women (1983), women analysts are swept away by countertransference love that leads them to become sexually or romantically involved with their male patients.
(14) Bruno was spellbound, and there wasn't a person in the land who wasn't screaming "that was magic!".
(15) Yet his audience were spellbound by a speech in which he used his Irish charm, humour and passion to remind us that so long as we truly listened and put the patient first, all would be well in psychiatry."
(16) A beautifully designed book-app that will keep both children and adults spellbound.
(17) That may have had something to do with chemicals in the air at the time but, extraordinarily, I’ve experienced exactly that same extra-dimensional feeling of spectral, spellbound awe when listening to him (stone cold, Spotified sober this time round) singing Lazarus from beyond the grave.
(18) What has struck me most has been the reaction of people all over the world who were spellbound by the golf; for all the people involved, not only me, we have been blown away by the reception in Asia, Australia.
(19) Almost 13.5 million saw gymnastics troupe Spellbound win Britain's Got Talent , putting it in sixth place, just ahead of the final of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, which was won by singer Stacey Solomon three weeks ago and watched by 13.4 million.
(20) Instead of being constantly spellbound by leaps in technology, we need a bigger debate to assess their strengths and weaknesses to find those that will best support the type of world we want to save and create.