I was in my 30s & still under the spell of a Little Golden Book.
But while Avalon sits under the spell of a strange sickness, the clock is ticking.
Wood was constantly wide of the mark in the worst spell of a burgeoning England career.
Like Malvo, Tsarnaev was young, had no history of violent conduct, and fell under the spell of a charismatic mentor.
Under the spell of "a cruel, remorseless emperor" — his own single-mindedness — Ahab stays his fatal course.
He first falls under the spell of a childhood friend, Yvan Deroy, and absorbs his fascist yearnings.
He has fallen under the spell of a Christian charlatan named Tartuffe and simply moved the fellow in.
Weldon and her husband divorced after he fell under the spell of a therapist-slash-astrologer who was counselling him.
Yet its failure seemed to free him, to break the spell of a burdensome ambition that was never really his.
Ms. Hirsi Ali, under the spell of a kindly Islamic evangelist, passed through a deeply religious phase.
He also fell under the spell of a teacher, Joe Brearley, whose passion for poetry and drama fired his imagination.
