Verb (used with object) : a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences. ,to be enthralled by illusions and superstitions. From Dictionary.com.
Tonight everything feels as though it is a part of a harp song, every thread humming in enthralling harmony with the others. From Wordnik.com. [October 21st, 2006] Reference
He admits the book is "enthralling" but faults the Prussian nobility for the German loss of the region and the war. From Wordnik.com. [In-Depth Exclusive: Diary of a Madman - Rare Mengele Memoir Unearthed by Auctioneer] Reference
Critics have so far delivered mixed reviews, ranging from 'enthralling' to 'flawed' and. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"enthralling" but faults the Prussian nobility for the German loss of the region and the war. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference
In his review Dirda called the book "enthralling.". From Wordnik.com. [Can writers change the world? Richard Holmes and Jerry Pinkney respond] Reference
The language of the messages is magnificent, enthralling. From Wordnik.com. [Century of Light] Reference
"Me mother's daughter must be a truly enthralling person.". From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
In fact, perhaps all text no matter how enthralling is irritating. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)] Reference
But, however enthralling they may be, all impulses must have an end. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
Exhibition, where the culinary demonstrations were most enthralling. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917] Reference
Once the subject of that book had been of an enthralling interest to him. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Wounded men always possess a sad and enthralling interest to the public mind. From Wordnik.com. [With The Immortal Seventh Division] Reference
Trust F1, in this exceptionally enthralling season, to shoot itself in the F-duct. From Wordnik.com. [Formula One, Integrity Nil: Ferrari and the worst brand of cheating] Reference
They were aware of a couple of enthralling faces fronting them side by side on the disc. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
While the scene beyond was so enthralling, there was one nearer by which was no less so. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
There was an enthralling interest in seeing how the people at home "were taking things.". From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
His soul seemed shudderingly repelling Laura's, yet the buffets themselves were enthralling. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
But to me the novels were enchaining, enthralling; and to hint a defect in them stunned one. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
Seems like everywhere you look these days, what used to offend women is now enthralling them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2006] Reference
In my time I have seen worldliness not only enthralling obviously and professedly worldly men. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Russia translated it into terms of art, and made the Ballet Russe an amazing, enthralling vision!. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
KING: One of show business's enthralling moments, Liza Minnelli with her late mother, Judy Garland. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2002] Reference
By way of illustration I will give some account of my first experiments in this enthralling pastime. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920] Reference
But his utter weakness, and the very enthralling delight of her soft hands on his forehead, kept him still. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Ma & Co. performed a slightly westernized version of Persian music master Kayhan Kalhor's enthralling Ascending Bird. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Z. Chesnoff: Two Nights At Tully: Professor Hawking, Yo-Yo Ma & Kids With Fiddles] Reference
Allende is at her best here, spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother of Chile] Reference
This was an artistic triumph worthy of ranking with the same actor's sweeping and enthralling performance of Cyrano de. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
But Lincoln intervened with a speech so enthralling that the hearers forgot the dispute and heard him out with rapture. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Unfortunately every lesson cannot be made so enthralling that the pupil's mind is kept upon it in spite of distractions. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
Then the more practical features of the occasion came into view, and all had an enthralling quality of reality -- poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Told at a breakneck pace, Empire of Dreams resembles nothing so much as a DeMille movie — gaudy, corny, and enthralling. From Wordnik.com. [Run of DeMille] Reference
And forthwith he launched into a sea-story more enthralling by far to the boy than any in that library so stocked with sea-stories. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
He thought he had never seen her in a mood of beauty more completely enthralling than this one of helplessness and bravery combined. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
It is an enthralling tale, with a surprisingly well-sustained mystery and a series of plots, counterplots, and well managed climaxes. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Gifted, brilliant, faulty by reason of his emotional temperament, strong by reason of his enthusiasm -- his all-enthralling sense of duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
Hicks, however, despite his saengerfest, was completely lost in the enthralling narrative, so that he seemed to hear the parrot shrieking. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
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