Sentence examples for work its spell from inspiring English sources

This is of course contingent on the severity of the attack; I am always grateful for good days when the distancing process can work its spell.

And he succeeded where others had failed, because he took Gilbert's sophisticated comedy seriously, and let Sullivan's peerless score work its spell.

In The Magician's Book she tells where that love began, in the world of Narnia, and shows how literature can work its spell on a young reader.

Five minutes into the second tale, "The Three Strangers", you can feel the old Hardy magic beginning to work its spell.

It was on a second viewing that the minimalist scale of the Turkish comedy-melodrama, which received the grand jury prize at this year's Cannes International Film Festival (admittedly, not always an indicator of worthiness), began to work its spell on me.

Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud's work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined.

A Kafka-esque, paranoiac fever dream, the movie has its detractors, but it worked its spell of dread on me.

You are in Bergen, the city of seven mountains, down the road from the land of the midnight sun, and it's already working its spell.

"Cast Away" doesn't begin working its spell until its introductory scenes of its harried hero and his fiancee are out of the way.

Admiration is redoubled most of all, though, for McDermott and Crouch, who trust the music to work its hypnotic spell, and balance its moments of stasis against the freewheeling, dramatically appropriate imagery.

The libretto, mostly numbers, solfège syllables and quirky, stream-of-consciousness spoken texts, works its own hypnotic spell.