What's the difference between enthralled and marvel?

Enthralled


Definition:

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.

Marvel


Definition:

  • (n.) That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
  • (n.) Wonder.
  • (v. i.) To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
  • (v. t.) To marvel at.
  • (v. t.) To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You marvelled at how easy it was to live two very different lives side by side.
  • (2) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
  • (3) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
  • (4) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
  • (5) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
  • (6) Tottenham had by far the best of the chances but either their own tension in front of goal or the marvels of Howard intervened.
  • (7) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
  • (8) The store, with its marvellous window displays, was as influential as her books would eventually be, pioneering a new generation of shops devoted exclusively to kitchenware.
  • (9) Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864-November 1865) Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambition.
  • (10) There is also a precedent for the disappearance of Captain America, currently played by Chris Evans , from the Marvel universe.
  • (11) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
  • (12) While his organising framework was Marxian (beginning as "an attempt to understand the arts", as he said himself), the subjects included mountain-climbing, opera, jazz and sartorial and eating fashions as well as work patterns, class solidarity and the movements of international finance – all delivered in a marvellously flexible and pungent style.
  • (13) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
  • (14) "If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing," said Evans.
  • (15) This was, as the German said, “spectacular, wild football” featuring marvellous attacking and slapdash defending.
  • (16) Click here to watch It has been reported elsewhere that Star Wars could be packaged in line with the studio's Marvel universe, which successfully delivered a series of comic book films focusing on individual superheroes before bringing them all together for the $1.5bn box office hit The Avengers earlier this year.
  • (17) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
  • (18) At the heart of it, Djinguereber was and remains a marvel of architecture where, when 2,000 people line up for prayers on a Friday, you feel the greatness of God and Islam in your soul.” Miraculously, the mosque was only slightly damaged by the Islamist groups - led by al-Qaida and Ansar Dine - who occupied Timbuktu in 2012.
  • (19) I suppose occasionally she may have spoken brusquely to one or two people who wanted more respect, but the job of the prime minister’s chief of staff is to be strong, it’s to be tough, it’s to be focused and she did an absolutely marvellous job.” Abbott said he did not want to criticise the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, whom he accused last week of “badly misleading people” by claiming he had warned Abbott’s office on the Friday before the leadership challenge to be on high alert.
  • (20) A computer server isn’t a marvel of modern technology.

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