Sentence examples for insidious spell from inspiring English sources
These have been appearing in such quantity that Tuoi Tre, one of Vietnam's leading newspapers, felt compelled to publish an editorial decrying the "rubbish Chinese fiction rife with mawkish and sexual elements" which has "cast an insidious spell on large numbers of Vietnamese teenagers and young adults".
It may bind a spouse to her domestic abuser, draw an unscrupulous adult toward sexual involvement with a child, put someone under the insidious spell of a cult leader, and even inspire jealousy-fueled homicide.
Yet somehow - despite all the B-movie absurdity - the thing works, and works like a more benign version of the insidious Rappaccini spell: slowly, softly, irreversibly.
Ultz's ugly design spells out the insidious racial hierarchy but makes the action seem trapped in a lift shaft.
Completely shielding a company or country from this insidious threat means removing it from the lifeblood of the 21st century, spelling a slow demise.
The spells may trigger heart attacks or strokes, but the more common dangers arise from the insidious daytime effect of sleep apnea: attacks of extreme drowsiness, which undoubtedly account for many car accidents and some stalled careers as well.
These books are insidious.
Its progress is insidious.
