'thralldom' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means the condition of being a slave or bound in servitude; bondage; slavery. Example sentence: Her thralldom to the tyrant king was oppressive and filled her with dread.
It was an act of protest against what Mishima saw as Japan's thralldom to the West.
The decade that followed brought high times and hard times, and the hard times usually came from Jessica's thralldom to her chosen saviors.
"Doll," Williams wrote her in 1954, "I have mobilized the city in an all-out campaign to find 'WORK FOR MARIA!' " Such was Williams' thralldom to Maria that by the nineteen-seventies he was referring to them both ironically as "her Ladyship and slave".
"Liv and Ingmar" suggests why Ullmann denied herself a part she likened to a "birthright": it took her decades, after her five years with Bergman, to escape her thralldom.
It deftly appealed to and mocked American credulity, both satirizing and cashing in on the thralldom of rock and roll and of Elvis in particular: like the singer, it shook things up.
As one American missionary in Shanghai put it at the time, "Americans are too firmly attached to the principles on which their government was founded and has flourished to refuse sympathy for a heroic people battling against foreign thralldom".
His main project is to break "the thralldom of a myth – that the production of goods is the central problem of our lives".
There, where the Taliban had the peasants by their throats, women had to be effectively disappeared lest their sexuality distract men from the lives of prayer and warfare that ensures thralldom to whatever power-mania looms over them.
And, in Tynan's scene-by-scene breakdown of Brooks's most famous movie and in his thralldom to this enchantress, you get a perfect marriage of his critical instinct and lifelong star-worship.
This intoxication is of a piece with the erotic thralldom the book projects, and it can become similarly cartoon-like: "The blow caught Starck squarely on the ear with a sickening, pumpkin-thwacking thud, dropping him like a stone".
And though their ardor seems to make the artist himself uncomfortable, Kinney suggests that Dylan might be partially to blame for it — that his own aloofness and self-made mythologies have deepened his fans' thralldom.
