The reason is that what was a favouring upward step in economic life has now become a hopeless enthralment.

He could not tell the duration of the weaving, the term of his enthralment.

But he shares his enthralment with new technologies.

Human enthralment with our nearest celestial neighbor has taken many forms but it's a fascination that's perhaps found its most persistently evocative expression in music.

In the midst of this enthralment of public opinion, which evoked so much of the mysterious, the document was the principal object of conversation.

Gove is a genuine ideological obsessive, marked not only by his white-light enthralment to the dogmas of marketised mass education, but impervious to counterfactual evidence or critique of any kind.

As he slowly turned the pages enthralment showed in the way he frequently moved the pictures towards light from the French window, inclining his, head this way and that to take in' all the angles.

He felt that these men had, 'an added stature which above ground they lacked', and that, in spite of the work in this nether world, this place held for them, sub-consciously perhaps, an element of daily enthralment.

All the more surprising, then, to find Hughe, in a mood of clenched determination, declaring that he will virtually ignore the 'magnesium, pulsing glow of constant metaphorical enthralment' in pursuit of a darker, vaster purpose.

Set simultaneously in Belfast 1991 and Belfast 1871, 'Pygmies in the Ruins' confronts the nature of Ireland's near pygmy enthralment with its own past, through the experience of Harry Washburn, a police 'scene-of-the-crime'photographer.

One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner irresponsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power, that lend fascination, enthralment, and terror to the fair-seeming magicians of North European folklore.