Sentence examples for in thrall to a challenge from inspiring English sources
Just occasionally, an Ayckbourn play may seem schematic, in thrall to a challenge he has set himself.The playwright's phenomenal productivity becomes incomprehensible when he points out that he is only a part-time writer.
The Irish were seen as unclean, immoral and dangerously in thrall to a bizarre religion.
World events, it sometimes seems, are now in thrall to a technology.
Trotta returns from the war to find his wife in thrall to a crop-haired woman professor of aesthetics.
The consequence of being in thrall to a bloodline is a weak party that lacks shared policies or common values.
Nor is it primarily a case of boards being helplessly in thrall to a company's executives.
It is a remarkably polite and measured response for a group supposedly in thrall to a mind-bending cult.
WHENEVER I read about people who are in thrall to a dance craze, my world suddenly seems too small.
A spoilt rich boy is in thrall to a predatory, although unseen, gay novelist.
Jack Burden suffers from an insufficiency of ego and finds himself in thrall to a bully.
Why were they in thrall to a system based on mass extermination?
