Sentence examples for seizing you from inspiring English sources

But the first few days' descent into the season are edgy and grumpy – emails glanced at from behind your hands, half-baked ideas seizing you up in the act of wrapping presents, when you're quaffing warmed-up low-quality wine or taking in festive tat on the telly.

When you sense perverted thoughts seizing you, immediately get yourself away.

Gluttony, greed and sloth likely seized you before, during and after Christmas lunch.

It's a desperate path and a story that seizes you almost immediately with a visceral force.

Little girls of about 12 seize you by the hand and ask you to go with them".

Do not protest: In these tiny, shining pools are concentrated all the mighty Thai flavors that seize you by the throat.

If you weren't valuable enough as a potential slave, your creditors could seize you and chop up your body, dividing the pieces among themselves in proportion to their claims on you.

Wherever you sit in the hall, from the front center rows to the high back balcony, the gracefully curving, Spanish-galleon lines of the interior arrange themselves in hypnotic perspectives, and the music seizes you from all sides.

For the inundation of New York, I went to Freud and primitive attitudes toward violent weather events, trying to make sense of that which seizes you and throws you against a new wall of experience.

So I put it to our readers: what children's books — or adult ones — seized you at an impressionable age and made you identify so strongly with a character that you changed your wardrobe, or your appearance, or your destiny?

I can best describe my headache like this: Imagine deeply eccentric thugs seized you and forced a small, sturdy hat (e.g., a jaunty bowler) onto your head and glued it in place.