The phrase "as a thrall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing servitude, bondage, or being under someone's control or influence.
Example: "He felt trapped in his job, living as a thrall to the demands of his boss."
Alternatives: "as a servant" or "in servitude".
Braunfels comes across in this score as in thrall to Hindemith.
Campbell is a Scottish Nancy, as much in thrall to Celtic folk (fiddle player John McCusker plays on one song) as she is to the loucher side of country and rock.
Amanda and Elyot are as much in thrall to music and its ability to evoke deep feelings as anyone else.
He already knows the story — who does not know about William Wallace? — but she reads smoothly and at just the proper speed and makes some things solemn and others terrifying and others comical, so that soon he is as much in thrall to the book as she is.
How about the company buys the jet and you have it for your exclusive use?' He said, 'No, buy me the jet.'" Along the way in the film Gibney confesses to have been as much in thrall to Apple products as anyone.
Though Peterson has sometimes been criticised as a musician in thrall to his own runaway technique, he remained a great virtuoso of piano jazz, and an equally effective populariser of the music among those who might otherwise not have encountered it.
One of the secrets of Kim Il Sung's success (apart from his ruthless suppression of opponents) was to condemn this policy as "flunkeyism" and portray the South as in thrall to a new great master.
Clarke is setting the scene for what the New York Times described as the "Svengali defence" – admitting Tsarnaev's guilt but painting him as in thrall to a powerful older brother, Tamerlan.
It's a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
I mean, that's bullshit, obviously: there are still incredible clubs and wonderful DJs and amazing records being put out on a daily basis, but taken as a totality, we still seem as in thrall to Marshall Jefferson and Ron Hardy and Trax and DJ International as we were 20 years ago.
