in thrall
idiom
literary
: in a state of being controlled or strongly influenced by someone or something
He was completely in thrall to her.
He was completely in her thrall.
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Glover was too musically slippery (and occasionally too in thrall to his influences) to leave a signature sound behind; his core gift in music as anywhere else is adaptability.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Commentary and opinions Here are the billionaires in thrall to Trump, business columnist Michael Hiltzik writes.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Republican legislators—in thrall to a white, rural base that feels threatened by demographic and ideological shifts—remain powerful enough to seek to bend the rules in their favor.
—Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
But this isn’t a film in thrall to star power, or indeed any cinematic bells and whistles: A late-summer thunderstorm, briefly menacing but causing no ultimate harm, represents the closest thing to a dramatic peak in screenwriter Robert Jones’s faithfully low-key adaptation.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Commentary and opinions Here are the billionaires in thrall to Trump, business columnist Michael Hiltzik writes.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Republican legislators—in thrall to a white, rural base that feels threatened by demographic and ideological shifts—remain powerful enough to seek to bend the rules in their favor.
—Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
But this isn’t a film in thrall to star power, or indeed any cinematic bells and whistles: A late-summer thunderstorm, briefly menacing but causing no ultimate harm, represents the closest thing to a dramatic peak in screenwriter Robert Jones’s faithfully low-key adaptation.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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