"It is no exaggeration: this coming Sunday it's not only Europe that is looking spellbound at the SPD party conference, but many people far further afield.
Ino always has boys from the country in his cluttered lair, who sit or stand around looking spellbound until Ino sends them bolting down to fetch something from outside.
As spellbound tourists look on, buyers use flashlights to peer inside the gutted fish, rolling samples of meat between their fingers.
People spoke of feeling thunderstruck, overwhelmed, spellbound, transformed.
In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the Mariner is a stricken, enthralled automaton; the doomed ship moves, bewitched, laden with its "ghastly crew", all of them living dead whose sounds and terrible, accursed looks deepen the Mariner's own spellbound state.
When inconsistencies and viciousness are paced so slowly – not as if the world has gone mad but as if it were spellbound in a musky dream – Webster does look as if he is the Shakespeare of the pickled shark.
When he stood up again and looked through the viewfinder of the Hasselblad 503CW, he seemed spellbound by what was in his frame.
Edwards does not marvel at the throws Pennington makes because he sees them all the time, but even he was spellbound when Pennington, on first-and-goal from the 8, looked into the end zone for Anthony Becht and kept looking, freezing the linebacker, even as he flipped the ball to Curtis Martin in the right flat at the last moment.
Indeed, it's a strange, miserable little movie, with the sets either bizarrely stylized (the outdoor scenes look like leftovers from Fritz Lang's Metropolis or maybe the dream sequences from Hitchcock's Spellbound) or in the case of the interior scenes cavernous and echoing to a ludicrous degree.
For the most part, though, our sense of what nightmares generally look and feel like comes from fiction, especially from movies — from the surreal dreamscape that Salvador Dali designed for Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" to the twisted fantasias of David Lynch.
I looked across the room at the young faces of the diverse Australian Muslims who gazed at the prime minister, spellbound, as he addressed them.
