He was my model, Churchill said. I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall. From LearnThat.org. [William Bourke Cockran (1854-1923)]
What to do about communist judges in thrall to Beelzebub?. From Wordnik.com. [April 2005] Reference
But we stood in thrall to the brave new world it represented. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr] Reference
She is quiet, in thrall to her father, bookish, and solitary. From Wordnik.com. [Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions] Reference
Replied the Ifrit, “Thy thrall is hight Dahnash bin Faktash.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Senator X was in thrall to Bob Dole because of personal problems. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Misinformation] Reference
Hollywood is fully in thrall to 3D and 3D conversion at this point. From Wordnik.com. [Warner Bros. Testing 3D-Converted 300 Footage for Re-release; Prequel Still in the Works | /Film] Reference
The BBC still in thrall to their EU paymasters and against democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
So in thrall are many of us we do not even notice our mental slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-29] Reference
Are they all that much in thrall to Gordon Brown and his Labour henchmen?. From Wordnik.com. [What's the difference?] Reference
Staying best friends gets tricky when he's in thrall to the school soccer star. From Wordnik.com. [When Frog and Toad Are More Than Friends] Reference
I am on the left and in thrall to Karl Marx, Gul tells Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan cricketer calls on Marxist in case for the defence] Reference
Better that we undergo a period of leaness than that we end up in thrall to Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-17] Reference
The major leagues are too much in thrall to TV and the rhythm of the game has been destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09] Reference
Is it just me, alone here, mocking the frivolities of an arbitrary date we are held in thrall to?. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Ain’t Over, So Stop Mourning It « The Graveyard] Reference
Are the Labour government so in thrall to appeasing Sinn Fein/IRA that they don't care about justice?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
He's so high on economics, he can safely pretend to be in thrall to the guy who keeps his teeth clean. From Wordnik.com. [The Angst of Economics?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
SF is, I think the most crafted form of Structural Fabulation, the least in thrall to the unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [A Modernist Prometheus] Reference
When you hold a man's mind in thrall you can do what you will with his body; you possess it and not he. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage as a Trade] Reference
The other survivor is a bombastic general from the other clan, in thrall to military glory, in love with death. From Wordnik.com. [Little Big Soldier] Reference
In all likelihood, she passed so as not to be in thrall to Sony for the next several years, and who can blame her?. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Rachel Wood Exits Spider-Man Broadway Production; Kathryn Bigelow Passed on Directing the Film Reboot | /Film] Reference
There is a huge problem, particularly acute now, because so many public policy makers are in thrall to economists. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf] Reference
Personally, I tend to agree that government generally is wasteful, inefficient, corrupt and in thrall to the powerful. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Bad News for People Who Like Big Government] Reference
But when I see something beautiful, I am held in thrall by it, helpless as a Toreador vampire watching a forbidden sunrise. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Labour has been in thrall to the Fabian branch of its history for decades, even as its purchase on the world has loosened. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
No, we are not so in thrall to monomaniac absolutes that we think it's all or nothing -- total tolerance or total intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olannas twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Half of a Yellow Sun: Summary and book reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.] Reference
The truth is that Britain's economic policymakers are as in thrall to bankers as their 1970s forerunners were to trade unionists. From Wordnik.com. [Pleading with banks won't do. Osborne needs a plan B] Reference
The NSO players are plainly in thrall to Eschenbach, whose qualities are diametrically opposed to his predecessor, Leonard Slatkin. From Wordnik.com. [Eschenbach, Tetzlaff, Bruckner: The fresh and less familiar faces of the NSO] Reference
Students spend years cramming details for memorized tests; the ones who succeed then spend years in thrall to entrenched professors. From Wordnik.com. [How America Can Rise Again] Reference
It's heartening to know that not all Mexicans are in thrall to the mighty Christmas tree and still put up nacimientos in their homes!. From Wordnik.com. [OK! Now that I know . . . . . .] Reference
It might keep books and reading in thrall to the imperatives of corporate capitalism a little longer, and this, of course, is everything. From Wordnik.com. [Writing and Publishing] Reference
( 'impulses') that held us in thrall: ignorance, our sense of ego, passion, disgust, and the lure of this transient life. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong: Questions] Reference
They weren’t wholly in thrall to those religious beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
On form, he is a spell-binding orator and holds arena-sized audiences in thrall. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference
The thrall was a serf rather than a slave, and could own a house, etc., of his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Volsungs] Reference
Nor was it only trivial horror stories or tearjerkers that thus held the reader in thrall. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture - Literature 1999] Reference
I'm presuming the idea is to catch the bright ones before street culture hath them in thrall. From Wordnik.com. [Generating Genius] Reference
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