(n.) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
(2) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
(3) But so far, I perceive a threatening mix of arrogance, self-infatuation and condescension.” It is tempting to see Podemos as a well-planned operation by a group of talented academics, following a populist script written by a line of radical thinkers, but that would be too simple.
(4) Once I got back to the UK, I was infatuated with finding similar adventures here.
(5) Returning to London in my 40s from a long spell abroad brought the shock of London house prices but also an infatuation with Brighton with its sea views, eccentric shops and green surrounding hills.
(6) "US fans of The Office could rally for this one," it admitted, "although its exuberant, boundless cynicism will test the demand for political satire in an Obama-infatuated America."
(7) Sure: it's got daddy issues, it's dominated by male characters, but it allows Lea Thompson as Lorraine to all but steal the show, hamming it up both as a chain-smoking, vodka-sinking washout and an infatuated teen (plus, in II, a surgically enhanced doormat, and, in III, an oirish farmer's wife).
(8) Dr Bill Knocke, head of the civil engineering faculty whose staff and students were among the dead, said he understood that Cho had gone on Monday morning to the dormitory of a female student, Emily Hilscher, 19, who was not his girlfriend but with whom he may have been infatuated.
(9) We failed to notice that our runaway infatuation with the sleek toys produced by the likes of Apple and Samsung – allied to our apparently insatiable appetite for Facebook, Google and other companies that provide us with "free" services in exchange for the intimate details of our daily lives – might well turn out to be as powerful a narcotic as soma was for the inhabitants of Brave New World.
(10) The concept of pathological infatuation or what this author has termed the Blue Angel syndrome is presented.
(11) Born in Swansea, he carved out a career on BBC Radio Wales, before a move to television in the form of Marion and Geoff, a mock-umentary series in which he played a divorced taxi driver still infatuated with his ex-wife; Coogan was the associate producer.
(12) An infatuation that, naturally, died long before Erasure sang about "l'amour" and just as the first crop of Generation Y-ers were beginning school.
(13) So let's remove those rose-tinted ski goggles and take a closer look at the objects of our infatuation … Protesters clash with police at an asylum centre near Copenhagen in 2008.
(14) Maps to The Stars by David Cronenberg is a competition movie avowedly about that most superficially attractive but difficult and elusive subject: celebrity and our current infatuation with it.
(15) The pair of them were so instantly infatuated with each other's possibilities that on their second meeting they planned the Smiths in detail.
(16) And embarrassing as it may be for those of us infatuated with the latest technology to admit, it is with the difficult case especially that old-fashioned technology so often must be depended upon.
(17) Now he's at it again, with another part from which Harry Potter would run a mile: in Kill Your Darlings , he plays gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg , sexually infatuated with the dangerous Lucien Carr .
(18) Joyce suspected her husband was having an affair with Deng, with whom he was reportedly infatuated.
(19) "He's got an earring, he wears leather and you're totally infatuated with him.
(20) Why am I – why is everyone else she knew – so infatuated with Yusor?
Swoon
Definition:
(v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
(n.) A fainting fit; syncope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises.
(2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
(3) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
(4) I don’t know if it has to do with his stoic demeanor as he sat behind President Obama during a State of the Union, or those baby-blue eyes all over the news on Tuesday, as he announced that he wasn’t running for president this year, citing his faith in the political process ( swoon ).
(5) Some critics have sneered that Theodore, who writes letters for a living, can't actually construct a sentence, but that, surely is the point: there is no true emotion in this modern world, and it seems unlikely that Jonze would expect anyone to swoon at Theodore's attempt at a love letter which includes the sentence, "The world is on my shitlist."
(6) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
(7) Where F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 source novel gave us the world in a soap bubble, weightless and gorgeous, Luhrmann's Gatsby is more akin to a mirrorball, a spinning, fractured dazzle of wild revels and swooning courtships.
(8) Before Swoon, he'd already made a name for himself as the director of They Are Lost to Vision Altogether, a superior piece of Aids agit-prop shaped by his experiences as an activist.
(9) But instead of swooning at these facts, Okoye is modest, stating only that he cares for the event and is determined to raise its profile.
(10) We were still swooning at her brio when rioting broke out across Britain and she made headlines again, calling for Facebook and Twitter to be closed down during civil unrest .
(11) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
(12) It's why John Wesley was able to garner great crowds in his open-air meetings in late 18th-century England: vast, ecstatic audiences which even frightened him with their swooning, groaning, swaying paroxysm, a "contrary vision" and a counter-revolution, as EP Thompson wrote, against the shackles of industrialisation and enclosed lands.
(13) Since then, the Red Sox have gone through a lot of turmoil (the injury-plagued 2010 season, the disastrous September swoon in 2011, everything that Bobby Valentine did in 2012).
(14) So, as others are doing in this, the year of the bush, I decided it was time to stop swooning, and wake up.
(15) Because we swooned over the idea of the United States of Europe, hoping that people would forget that we're Germans … We felt liberated at the idea of being able to be Europeans.
(16) Frazier deservedly won the decision – but the fact that Ali somehow gathered himself to his feet and attempted to fight back not only had the fans round the world swooning at the heroism, but it gave notice of the added, and unconsidered, ingredient that would embrace Ali for the rest of his life.
(17) Equally bold was Kalin's Swoon, which retold the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the notorious gay child-killers whose murder of a young boy had already inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion.
(18) It’s a glorious, swooning concoction, but forces you to confront one of singing’s great perils – the risk of ridicule.
(20) Before the internet, when the shroud of celebrity mystique was easier to maintain and nobody could tweet about Bill Cosby, fans felt less complicit in continuing to swoon over and patronize icons who were rumored to have done heinous things.