What's the difference between fascinated and spellbound?

Fascinated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Fascinate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (3) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (4) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
  • (5) The goal must be to prevent or reverse this fascinating disease, utilizing specific therapy designed from a knowledge of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease.
  • (6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
  • (7) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (8) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
  • (9) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
  • (10) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (11) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
  • (12) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
  • (13) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
  • (14) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
  • (15) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
  • (16) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (17) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
  • (18) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
  • (19) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
  • (20) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.

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.