Sentence examples for spellbind from inspiring English sources

He was a master of understatement and narrative so complete that he could still spellbind audiences after his voice had gone, and he was even more of a legend among other musicians than among his fans.

Maraniss doesn't say how many people were watching, but it surely wasn't enough to bind, and spellbind, the world.

It's possibly my favourite passage in a celebrity autobiography since the bit in volume one of Wayne Rooney's planned five-volume effort, in which the Manchester United striker spellbinds readers by painting the following word picture of his home.

The record I loved best was Rimsky-Korsakov's romantic "Scheherazade," about the young Islamic woman who spellbinds an Arab sultan with 1,001 tales.

What is essential to art, however, and what distinguishes it from the semblance of nature, is the "expressionless [Ausdruckslose]": that critical violence within the work of art that "arrests this semblance, spellbinds the movement, and interrupts the harmony" (SW 1, 340).