Sentence examples for extraordinary spell from inspiring English sources

It was an extraordinary spell of possession monopolisation by Ireland.

Lili's people come from the same area, but they are small shopkeepers, and indeed Orso's upper-class family despised her a little before falling under her extraordinary spell.

Until she broke her own, extraordinary spell by leaving the United States and marrying Aristotle Onassis in 1968, she possessed, in the minds of most of the American people, a kind of stylistic perfect pitch.

Follow in the footsteps of Ceylan's protagonists (the cops, doctor, prosecutor and suspects) as they hunt a body in the barrens and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia casts an extraordinary spell.

Not for the first time, nor probably for the last, Hughes was casting his extraordinary spell over an audience which, for two generations now, has been brought up on The Hawk in the Rain, Crow and The Rattle Bag, as well as on the lyrical volcano that is the tale of Ted and Sylvia, one of the great love stories of the 20th century.

When Birthday Letters finally appeared, Hughes cast his extraordinary spell, and not for the first time, over an audience which, for two generations, had been brought up on The Hawk in the Rain, Crow and The Rattle Bag, as well as on the tale of Ted and Sylvia, one of the love stories of the 20th century.

The extraordinary cold spell was probably strengthened and lengthened by the resulting increase in sea ice at high latitudes, as well as an unusually low number of sunspots in the middle of the 7th century.

Extraordinary piece of work".

While that extraordinary drought occurred during a cool spell in the Northern Hemisphere called the "little ice age," other sustained extreme droughts appear to have hit West Africa at points when the world was relatively warm over all, they reported.

"Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling" (St. Martin's Press), by David Crystal, out June 18th.

Written by a British historian and military expert employed at a London publishing house, this poignant memoir tells the story of a man who fell under the spell of an extraordinary owl – thanks in part to the influence of his older brother, a falconer.