Sentence examples for bewitchment from inspiring English sources

But it was while Fitzgerald was still bewitched by his aura and angry about his bewitchment that he wrote his masterpiece.

The latter work gave Ravel an opportunity of doing ingenious and amusing things with the animals and inanimate objects that come to life in this tale of bewitchment and magic in which a naughty child is involved.

The character of Anna is a Christ-like figure, relentlessly trying to redeem her older sister Elsa from bewitchment.

Itself the story of a middle-class student's bewitchment by patrician style and grace, Brideshead became a campus cult not via Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel but thanks to the Granada TV adaptation in 1981.

Phil Jagielka 6/10 The Everton centre-back faced a daunting task as the quicksilver Spanish attack created mischief and bewitchment in front of England's back four.

Wittgenstein said in this connection: "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of the intelligence by means of language".

This ironic comment is aimed not only at music; it goes deeper, to music's lyrical essence, to that bewitchment which feeds festivals and massacres alike and turns individuals into ecstatic mobs.

Sex, too, can be sticky, and reeks of bewitchment.

Rather the opposite, in fact: "As far as I'm aware, the material culture of witchcraft, in terms of surviving artefacts, relates mainly to anti-bewitchment measures – amulets and such like – made by cunning folk".

The ethical universe of the films they inspired is maybe out of fashion, and the methods that once brought us their magic can seem outmoded; but the enchantments these movies offer are undated, and their bewitchments perennial.

This "Dream" performance also became a nearly dizzying dance in which the magic of place -- the forest with all its bewitchments -- is never allowed to detach itself from ordinary life with all its mundane and mechanical demands.