Then, we fell in thrall to the allure of precision-guided weapons systems.
The super-rational detective's creator fell in thrall to spiritualism.
They fell in thrall to their own gumption, he says, and as they rose to power they became complacent — especially Petraeus.
He sensitively analyzes Brandon's startling pastime of making Nazi-themed doodles and drawings, wondering if they represent "Brandon's effort to turn away from ordinary life and to powerfully seek another life". He notes how Brandon fell in thrall to a local leader of the white-power movement just as Larry was first telling people to call him Leticia.
For years you and your friends held our perfect chronology hostage, threatening to destroy what we'd built together as you fell in thrall to your new algorithmic gods.
The rapid growth, and indeed dominance, of this theoretical paradigm is not inherently negative, but falling in thrall to the theory and neglecting to think critically and reflect on the situation in Afghanistan and the applicability of COIN theory is a fatal flaw.
And I fell instantly in thrall to her.
But "the central paradox of Arthur's life," as Lycett puts it, is that this trained doctor and inventor of the superrational Sherlock Holmes somehow fell completely in thrall to spiritualism.
It has made me race back to all 554 Fall songs and put them on repeat as I, too, fall once more in thrall to the oblique, contrary charm of Mark E Smith and his band of undervalued troubadours.
It beggars belief, it is positively hilarious, that a whole country fell so completely in thrall to a posturing little prick like Hitler, who needed no help from our propagandists to look daft.
