Preeti appears to be too spellbound by his aura to object.
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She'd come with the most extraordinary tales and have everyone spellbound.
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Trump as a holy roller, spellbound by the mysteries of faith?
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I'm outing Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 thriller 'Spellbound' as a #MeToo film.
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This spellbound display begs the question: who is Eve a ghost of?
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" Natalie Esparza, 35, Detroit, first visited in 2000 and was "absolutely spellbound.
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I still remember being spellbound as a tearful Fantasia claimed the title.
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Even if theme parks have many media companies spellbound, there are hazards.
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Rhye's mild blandness aims additionally to replicate dizzy, awestruck, spellbound erotic bliss.
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Spellbound Democrats should also consider the fate of past single payer proposals.
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The glowing orbs and digital horizons had us spellbound in an uplifted melancholy.
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Regardless of your background with magic and witchcraft, these books will leave you spellbound.
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To read Colette's literature is to be spellbound by its emotional nakedness and authenticity.
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The way a spellbound audience can wrap a protective silence around a pianissimo ending.
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Martin Anquiano and Mark Phillips run a metaphysical crystal shop in Silverlake, called Spellbound Sky.
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Pictured above: Christina York SpellBound is the developer of augmented reality therapies for kids in hospitals.
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Still, she was spellbound by art: She read about it voraciously, and began writing about it.
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But some parts of the internet, driven by the images of the exhumed sarcophagus, were spellbound.
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Word of the Day : hold spellbound _________ The word enrapture has appeared in two articles on nytimes.
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Yet they have received more than $30bn from spellbound venture capitalists in the past five years.
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The spellbound chorus, describing a riptide that may also be a lover, strengthens the song's inexorable pull.
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But the country is now spellbound as their team has defied expectations, cruising to the quarter finals.
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These lawmakers are, too often, spellbound by the very agencies and departments they are charged with policing.
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Glued to his couch, he's spellbound by the proceedings even though it's well into the 14th round.
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The full list of games include PEOPLE Puzzler, Spellbound, PEOPLE Style Mahjongg, Royal Family Jigsaw and Solitaire.
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Solange looked on spellbound — was it truly possible for people to be taken over in that way?
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Staggered lines and irregular rhymes offer little reprieve from a world spellbound by despair and pervasive violence.
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Nearly 75 patrons, sitting on chairs, the floor, or leaning against walls were spellbound for the entire presentation.
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As it turned out, the only person who wasn't spellbound by the perfect 10 was Nadia Comaneci herself.
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Mr. Morris, who was still pining over her, read the email aloud to his writers, who were spellbound.
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Jardim had been spellbound by the Barcelona team that claimed the Champions League under Pep Guardiola in 2009.
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This template for documentaries, perhaps popularized by the spelling-bee movie "Spellbound," is getting to be too easy.
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Audiences watched spellbound as a history that most didn't know or have access to unfolded before their eyes.
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There's even a hint of domestic violence in "Spellbound," when Peck threatens to "biff" Bergman at one stage.
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That's the protagonist of this Brooklyn show from Spellbound Theater, which specializes in works for children under 5.
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It really held me spellbound, and was so funny, witty and had just the right amount of nostalgia.
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The viewer is not meant to be troubled but instead at best spellbound or at the very least entertained.
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Comfortable seating soon had me willingly idling away a good half hour of spellbound time somewhat tinged with tragedy.
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WATCH THIS: Take a Tour Through Hogsmeade and Hogwarts Castle with "Harry Potter's" Luna Lovegood Don't get too spellbound.
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Not really, of course, but he joked on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that he is totally spellbound.
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Lala was also one of the stars of Spellbound, a 2002 documentary following eight competitors at the 1999 Bee.
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Preschool visitors can enjoy "Under the Tree," Spellbound Theater's immersive puppet show about the wonders in a girl's backyard.
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Maurice goes astray and arrives at a spellbound castle, where he warms his posterior probability against an open hearth.
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I first discovered her channel when it was linked to on Reddit, and quickly became spellbound by her technique.
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"The Chinese women seemed spellbound at the instrument, as well as the voice, producing such sweet sounds," Smith wrote.
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Bruegel holds the viewer spellbound before an apocalyptic panorama in which an army of skeletons makes sure no one escapes.
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His stories twist and turn with the same authenticity that defines his bar, and the reader, like Sultan, is spellbound.
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Emde, though, is part of the first generation spellbound by a media-driven culinary wave: the Food Network was ascendant.
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Days after Jon's death, I found myself walking into Spellbound Sky for no other reason than that Jon loved crystals.
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While a silent curtain call might disappoint actors, the dogs' spellbound stillness is a great sign for their future handlers.
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"She had the audience spellbound from pretty well her first notes," wrote Tom Service, a music critic at The Guardian.
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Fans, critics, and even academics, spellbound by the band's music, have taken the bait and delivered one overwrought interpretation after another.
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Blake Charlton's first two fantasy novels Spellwight and Spellbound were excellent studies in the power of the written word and magic.
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They came from humble roots, made a fortune in the 22008s in meatpacking, then in middle age fell spellbound by art.
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I sat spellbound, and by the end of his speech I was ready to drop out of high school and enlist.
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For several minutes, Nicklaus looked on, spellbound, as the broad-shouldered man with the big hands beat one ball after another.
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It is a crucial part of this production's magic that the tellers and their tale blur into a single spellbound self.
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In spite of decades of scientific data proving human-caused climate change, we are still spellbound by a story of enlightened progress.
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SpellBound is currently working with top-ranking hospitals across the country, including Children's Hospital Colorado and Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
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"When I met Mr. Guzmán, he didn't have a jet," Mr. Martínez told a spellbound jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
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Mr. Paslow voted for Mr. Obama in 2008, spellbound by speeches that he said could make you happy and make you cry.
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Scroll through a modern mermaid's Instagram feed, and you'll be spellbound by shot after shot of them gliding effortlessly into the depths.
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"I was spellbound," Graham wrote in his autobiography, Just as I Am, describing the experience of being a teenager inside Ham's tent revival.
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London — The element of the unexpected that has left fans spellbound this season in England's Premier League continues to surprise and uplift everyone.
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Adolescent readers tend to be spellbound by the March girls' aspirations and high jinks, not the inner life of their mother (eye roll).
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The only trouble is, most of the characters in "Spellbound" are out of their minds, and the shrinks are trickier than the patients.
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This coming Sunday it is not only Europe that is looking spellbound at the SPD party conference, but many people far further afield.
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Theater Review BERLIN — For a single performer to hold an audience spellbound over a whole evening is as rare as it is remarkable.
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Twelve-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee, from Seattle, is the junior winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition and she had the 60 guests spellbound.
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When we landed at Desert Rhino Camp, a joint venture between Wildlife Safaris Namibia, SRT and three local community run conservancies, we were spellbound.
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He probably would have met the same end, but perhaps an earlier demise would have shaken Dany's other spellbound advisers out of their reverie.
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Mr. Biden is an old hand of the party's old guard, cozy with big finance and spellbound by a bygone era of bipartisan amity.
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"Richard II" was an astonishment, though — partly because of Ms. O'Connor's masterly ability to hold a room spellbound, and partly because of the script.
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While spellbound by Brett's clean prose and obvious intellect, I finished the book wondering if the follow-through was as masterful as the setup.
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Zama, a man as impetuous as he is stuck, resembles other existentialist antiheroes as he swings between spellbound passivity and sudden lunges into action.
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Speaking of magic, one of her latest shades has me seriously spellbound — and not just because it's inspired by the one and only J.K. Rowling.
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It was a monumental moment for my sister and me; we were spellbound by the gymnasts who were only a few years older than us.
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"Ensorcelled by Khaos," one of the album's fiercest tracks, boomed across the festival grounds with frenzied grace, and each song that followed kept us spellbound.
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Lala was also the subject of a 2002 documentary on the Bee, called Spellbound, which followed eight contestants in the lead-up to the competition.
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In fact, you need never have ventured outside the boundaries of civilization to be instantly transported and held spellbound there by these carefully rendered creatures.
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Even the judge in his televised 1979 murder trial (played, delightfully, by John Malkovich) seems as spellbound as the gallery filled with fluttering young women.
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For discussion purposes, we could call Bergman and Peck by their fictional names in "Spellbound," out of respect or something: Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwardes.
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Illness, death, war: all is fair game for a motor-mouthed provocateur whose onslaught of outrage draws his audience—aghast but spellbound—into an "alluring abyss".
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The reader is just as spellbound by Lock's story as Edward is by Poe's, the narrator initially wary but eventually surrendering to Poe's infectiously morbid fiction.
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Though Clay's boxing brain trust feared that an association with the Nation and Malcolm would deck his chances at a title shot, the fighter was spellbound.
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Presented by Spellbound Theater, this intimate show tells the story of Catbear, a lost toy that travels on six subway lines while searching for its owner.
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A 220-year-old McQueen had been up late in his parents' living room in London when the show came on television and left him spellbound.
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I was spellbound by a team of Amazonian women in red kilts kicking their legs so high and with such attack that it left me breathless.
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The chairs were occupied by a circle of silent, seemingly spellbound men and women, their eyes pinned on a woman at the center of the room.
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That cosmogram figures prominently in the stunning "Spellbound" (2015), an old piano covered with used metal door keys and Spanish moss, above which dangles a single lightbulb.
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He spoke at the institute's conference on big data in medicine, leaving more than 500 guests "spellbound" after a presentation made without notes or slides, Topol says.
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"In one concert, I had a little girl stand right in front of me and look absolutely spellbound by the singing," Mr. Smith wrote in an email.
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Instead, he held the audience spellbound as he described the challenges he had faced as a Latino student growing up on welfare in a tough Manhattan neighborhood.
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You probably haven't heard the backdrop artists' names — although Salvador Dalí makes a brief appearance with his dream sequence backing for the 1945 Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound.
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Russian fans are spellbound by the surprise success of the national team which has advanced to the quarter finals despite being the lowest ranked side in the tournament.
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Perhaps we like them for their humor (see: the Sanderson Sisters) or their powers, but if there's anything Bewitched taught us, it's their style that has us spellbound.
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And use it she did, spinning enough imaginative tales to leave her husband, the king, so spellbound that he couldn't execute his own decree — namely, to execute her.
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An instrumental version of the great jazz ballad "Midnight Sun" was treated as the entranced contemplation of a spellbound dreamer gazing at shooting stars in the summer sky.
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The most favorable interpretation of Graham's actions is that he's not spellbound by Trump in particular, but rather just willing to bow to whoever's in charge in Washington.
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A spellbound Tarantino often described his auteur-muse relationship with Thurman — who helped him conceive the idea of the bloody bride — as an Alfred Hitchcock-Ingrid Bergman legend.
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In other idea-saturated Presidencies—Kennedy's and Reagan's, for instance—the mood was set at the top, by the charismatic leader; intellectuals were as spellbound as everyone else.
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"Spellbound" is the story of one woman up against a wall of male authority, as well as male helplessness, in the form of the mentally tormented Gregory Peck.
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London, author of the underappreciated "Proxy," gives us a brilliantly crafted high fantasy about a society in which survival depends on falconry; even bird haters will be spellbound.
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The trademark harmonicas have been holstered, at least for now, his audience shrinking from a spellbound national electorate to a spirited weekday gathering of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
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Rosalía, whose full name is Rosalía Vila Tobella, was 13 when she first became spellbound by the music of Camarón de la Isla — a legendary Spanish Romani flamenco singer.
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Rather than being spellbound by our feelings about the world's biggest companies, American cities need to find ways to build local economies in a way that works for everyone.
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After two years of trying to figure out what to do with my life, I visited Chicago one weekend, and was absolutely spellbound by the gorgeous architecture all around me.
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And we couldn't have ever predicted that our current crop of students would be just as spellbound by Ross and Rachel's romance, Monica's lovable neuroses and Joey's passion for sandwiches.
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He turned in the driveway and looked at the studio as he finished his song, apparently as spellbound by it as the rest of us—his friends, myself, the photographer.
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Their escape proved the shrewdness of Trump's consistent messaging that the only question that mattered in an investigation that held Washington spellbound for two years was whether there was collusion.
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In his impassioned appeal, this seemingly unassuming Pakistani immigrant and his stoic wife held the nation spellbound with their eloquent testimonial of their son Humayun's ultimate sacrifice in the Iraq War.
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Through a story inspired by the Black American Freedom Movement and Afromysticism, and songs influenced by Prince, Sade, Diana Ross, and Tina Turner, the radiant Jomama Jones will leave you spellbound.
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In three grueling hours on the witness stand, Mr. Valdez spellbound the jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn with wrenching accounts from the front lines of Mexico's bloody drug wars.
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Mr. Pintilie's puckishness was evident in an interview in which he talked about his films and, with tongue in cheek, about his need to become spellbound by the actresses he cast.
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She enters the Democratic primary to elite mockery, but her rallies are huge and rapturous, and she holds crowds spellbound promising to cleanse America of its demonic legacy of racism and sexism.
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His Whitney Museum of American Art has packed in visitors since the spring of 2015, spellbound as much by its balconies and switchback staircases as by its light-filled, column-free galleries.
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But if you're feeling ensorcelled, bewitched, spellbound, enchanted, possessed, like Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus — saucy but not too scary — this All Hallow's Eve, then not to worry, we've still got you covered.
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The best track he's produced is called "Slow Drip"—a spellbound blast of magenta-hued synth that immediately teleports you to a neon beach, or a fallen city, or a glistening octahedral sunset.
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Investors are spellbound chiefly by its link to Tencent, which on November 22016th became Asia's first firm to be valued at over $203bn and which still owns just over 220% of China Literature.
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But Federer made a nonsense of such predictions with a vintage display, largely outplaying the Mallorcan in a 7-6(3) 1-6 6-3 6-4 victory on a spellbound Centre Court.
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"The board is being questioned for not taking action, but Zuck will side with her like he is spellbound," one user wrote, asking if the company could find a solution to its leadership struggles.
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Over the past couple of months visits with these gaseous captives at Abraham Lake — and a number of other locations — have left photographers spellbound, scattering mementos of their otherworldly encounters all over the Internet.
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Trump, feeling both unassailable among the poltroons who are Republican lawmakers and buoyed by his spellbound base, has moved further and further into his own alternate universe and away from acceptable norms and conventions.
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ESPN's decision to broadcast the bee starting in 1994, the 2002 Academy Award-nominated film "Spellbound" — all raised the profile of spelling in the South Asian community and made more kids want to participate.
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The craziness buried in "Spellbound" is misogyny: The movie veers off to become an examination not of the hazards of neurotic trauma but of what it's like to be a woman tormented by patriarchy.
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Exposure to Ryder's penumbral, spellbound paintings led to Hartley's first stylistically unified and distinctive body of work, the "Dark Landscapes" of 1909-10, with their images of wall-like black mountains crushing tiny houses.
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The stories Kubo weaves for the spellbound audience in his small village and the magic he culls by playing his three-stringed shamisen are wondrous, but Kubo knows little about the extent of his powers.
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WATCH THIS: Kate Middleton Just Channeled a Magical Harry Potter Look and Fans Are Spellbound Tickets for the 84-mile scenic journey start at $50 for adults and $28 for children through travel deals website TravelPirates.
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But for our purposes today, we're specifically looking at science fiction movies—so, sorry, fans of the Bourne movies, Shutter Island, Angel Heart, Spellbound, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Notebook, The Manchurian Candidate, and on and on.
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No one on the London Fashion Week schedule garners an end-of-show reaction quite like Ashish, and he (once again) left us completely spellbound by his witches, shining stars, and hopeful dream for the future.
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" It's hard to imagine future generations not being haunted and spellbound by Cave's gravelly wails and ghastly whispers on "Loverman," the evil sneers of "Red Right Hand," or the ferocious howls of "From Her to Eternity.
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People waited for hours in lines that stretched several blocks to get into the park, and they seemed spellbound at times as Mr. Sanders held forth against the wealthy and the powerful — in particular, Mrs. Clinton.
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But I particularly like Jack Chick's comic book Spellbound, which says that all rock songs (including Christian rock) are essentially evil magic spells that are made by combining ancient druidic melodies with lyrics written by witches.
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Spellbound by the ice, he reveled in the presence of a giant of being, the great ice bear, a creature he had once molded into a clay figurine incarnating all the marvel and joy of childhood.
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At first the UK press was spellbound by their deeply pensive, effects-laden music, but as shoegaze began to fall out of fashion for being too isolated and cold, Slowdive took the brunt of the bad press.
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Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound is highly entertaining, very thrilling, and very openhearted in its portrayals of a few kids who tackle crazy-ass words with greater finesse than most of us exhibit when we go to the bathroom.
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This week, the Internet is spellbound by a set of Harry Potter-themed newborn photos — most notably featuring a little Gryffindor wearing ear protectors to shield him from the deadly cries of his newborn brother, a Mandrake.
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On a stage inside Target Field, at the annual winter fan festival known as TwinsFest, Carew kept about 200 fans spellbound describing how paramedics had saved his life and the 47 days in five hospitals that followed.
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In December Ms Mathlouthi sang before another spellbound audience—this time in Oslo, as part of celebrations surrounding the award of the Nobel peace prize to four civil-society groups that shepherded in the new constitution of 2014.
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The 26-year-old world number five blazed 50 winners, many of them jaw-dropping backhands, to beat the five-time champion 443-7(5) 6-3 7-6(5) in front of a spellbound O2 arena crowd.
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A spellbound sigil, too, can be a type of cut: Take a phrase—like, "I live in Vegas," Sinclair's current fixation—strip it of its vowels and repeating letters, and use the remaining letters to make a symbol.
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In "Dottie Gets Spanked" (1993), Haynes's remarkable thirty-minute map of his boyhood inner world, he depicted his spellbound self, sitting cross-legged in a bathrobe in front of the TV with a pad and colored pencils in hand.
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"Spellbound" This documentary, a 2003 Oscar nominee, follows the 1999 National Spelling Bee, offering "enough drama, humor and unfiltered nail-biting suspense to put all the thrill-mongering screenwriters in Hollywood to shame," wrote the Times critic A.O. Scott.
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"When I was competing it was an absolute pressure cooker, but not to the extent it is today," said Nupur Lala, 33, who became the star of the documentary "Spellbound" when she nailed "logorrhea" to win the 1999 Bee.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech before a spellbound crowd on the National Mall in August 1963 are etched into history — and the American consciousness — as the defining moment in the struggle for civil rights.
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The Flores twins are the subject of the latest episode of the VICE News podcast about El Chapo, and the jury sat spellbound as they heard Pedro himself tell the tale in three hours of testimony at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.
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While children are spellbound by beignets and bowling to live "swamp pop," a Creole/Cajun/rockabilly musical genre unique to Louisiana, parents can stealthily work in discourse on colonialism and position "Nouvelle Orleans" as a microcosm of the melting pot called America.
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If Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is our "Spellbound," and David Fincher's "Zodiac" our "Psycho," then every other summer blockbuster aspires to the state of acute, hummingbird Zen first reached in "North by Northwest," a thriller about nothing except the curious delight of going nowhere fast.
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Otherwise they sold items that I found funny ("Warning: You are Entering a Red Neck Area," read one sign) or faintly disturbing (Confederate flags hung from a stall where a tattoo-wearing trader displayed his array of large daggers to a spellbound young boy).
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The moment, arriving in a tide of amusing references and ferocious wit, is weirdly unsettling, bringing to mind a scene in the Hitchcock movie "Spellbound," in which the tines of a fork, dragged along a tablecloth, create lines that serve as a memory trigger.
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Presented by Spellbound Theater, a Brooklyn company specializing in productions for toddlers and preschoolers, this interactive show features the book as both its main prop — the pages have pop-ups and moving parts — and a guide to an exploration of nursery rhymes and songs.
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His intimate relationship with his native Thessaloniki — a literary topos in all senses of the word, reflected in his poetry — kept him spellbound, and Christianopoulos spent most of his life living there, making trips to Athens and mainland Greece only when necessary, mainly for professional reasons.
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There was a boom around the time of Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans, Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound (both in 20173), Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me (both in 2004), but with the economic crash of 2008, independent filmmaking started this decade in a hole.
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As the unnamed protagonist makes his way through the surrounding forest (which, so richly described, leaves the reader spellbound) he is pursued not only by the plantation owner's monstrous mastiff, but also his own memories — the dark history of the slave trade, experienced in all his senses, as if anew.
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" Around the same time young Arthur was helping lay the cornerstone for today's "yoga-industrial complex," he was attending Columbia, where he became spellbound by the works of Edward Carpenter, a hardcore socialist poet/philosopher now known as the "Walt Whitman of England" and the "Gay Godfather of the British Left.
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Venus, eager for her son to find a safe haven there, sends Cupid to make Dido fall in love with Aeneas in Book I, and throughout Books II and III the queen grows ever more besotted with her guest, who holds her court spellbound with tales of his sufferings and adventures.
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But his imitators rarely come up with movies as pointless as "Naples in Veils," which tips its hat vigorously toward the master's motifs — the lost-and-found doubling of "Vertigo," the repressed trauma of "Marnie," possibly even Salvador Dalí's eye design from "Spellbound" — only to wind up as a tedious muddle.
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It is not uncommon anymore for anti-Trump conservatives like National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke to perfunctorily assert that "Obama begat Trumpism" without taking the trouble to explain what Obama did, other than simply to be who he is, to cause nearly half of the Republican electorate to become spellbound by a bigoted demagogue.
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In the early 1980s, that spellbound interregnum of American life, when high interest rates were turning the screws on the American working class, just before the lurid depredations of the Reagan era took hold, Tseng and Wong dramatized the "permanent outsider" status that afflicts Asian-Americans to this day, and restaged it to their advantage.
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"Whenever he was with her, I had the feeling that something was ailing him, and it was difficult to know exactly the cause," her co-star Gregory Peck said of shooting "Spellbound," the first of a trio of films with the actress that Ackroyd rightly identifies as marking "an emotional sea change" in both him and his films.
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And so it happened that in the summer of 43, as the New York art world was becoming spellbound by the emotionally cool attitudes of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Color Field painting, Gross was studying with Kokoschka – someone the chest-thumping New York art world had long ago consigned to a small, inconsequential corner of art history.
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I was in line at a cheese shop, contemplating our dependence throughout life on milk, mothers' milk (even if we move quickly on to the milk of other species' mothers, like cow, goat, sheep, buffalo or vegan substitutes, which emerge from mother earth), when it occurred to me that the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Spellbound" is really about sexual harassment.
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Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely, soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings—the sea, mountains, clouds, the open sky—Gurov thought how in reality everything is beautiful in this world when one reflects: everything except what we think or do ourselves when we forget our human dignity and the higher aims of our existence.
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There, on the shelves before the spellbound heads, was Mindful's entire product line: transdermal pot patches, marijuana taffy, pot bacon brittle, all-natural vegan pot capsules, Incredible Affogato pot candy bars, CannaPunch cannabis drinks, a Bubba Kush strain of root beer, Wake and Shake canna coffee, Lip Buzz lip balm, Apothecanna pain creams, and, of course, a wide variety of hashes, extracts and smokeables.
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Like numerous adherents before and after—the American poet-critics J. V. Cunningham and R. P. Blackmur, the English poet-critics Thom Gunn and Donald Davie, and the future U.S. Poet Laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Philip Levine, and Donald Hall—Williams had been spellbound by Winters's authoritative tone and by a set of absolutist convictions relating not just to Anglophone poetry but to literature as a whole.
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"Glory" (2004) is an oil barrel turned into a tanning bed with fluorescent lights — a dazzling and deadpan comment on oil's links to everything from luxury to melanin and the fossil fuel industry in Africa — and "Spellbound" (2015) is a piano covered with used keys, separated from their locations and purposes, and a video that includes footage of a church in Savannah, Ga., that had breathing holes in its floorboards for escaped slaves hiding there.
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Still, even if there is no surprise, and no gap in religious observance, it is terribly sad for anyone who has ever been to Paris in winter to think that this year — and next year, and the year after that and for God knows how many more years — there will be no children gazing spellbound at the large, detailed crèche, no candles flickering at midnight to the thunder of the great organ for the "Messe de la Nuit," no sea of awe-struck tourists looking forward to recounting how they celebrated Christmas at one of Europe's most familiar and wonderful landmarks.
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In the novel, you're treated to this passage: ...I was so spellbound that I wrenched myself free from his touch, because a moment longer I would have slackened like one of those tiny wooden toys whose gimp-legged body collapses as soon as the mainsprings are touched...It never occurred to me that what had totally panicked me when he touched me was exactly what startles virgins on being touched for the first time by the person they desire: he stirs nerves in them they never knew existed and that produce far, far more disturbing pleasures than they are used to on their own.
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" Playlist: "Christine" / "Happy House" / "Red Light" / "Spellbound (12" mix)" / "Arabian Knights (12" mix)" / "Monitor" / "Fireworks" / "Slowdive" / "Dazzle (Glamour Mix)" / "Cities in Dust" / "Killing Jar" / "Peek-a-Boo" / "Kiss Them For Me" / "Face to Face" In a 2005 story for The Guardian, Steven Severin is quoted on how Siouxsie and the Banshees' influences differed from others in the punk scene: "While most of the protagonists of punk looked to American garage bands—Flaming Groovies, MC5, the Stooges, the Dolls—or to the New York scene of Patti Smith, Television, Heartbreakers and the Ramones as a benchmark, we, perversely, saw ourselves as taking on the baton of glamorous art rock—Bowie and Roxy Music—while incorporating a love for Can, Kraftwerk and Neu.
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