Sentences with phrase «fall under the spell»

During the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial in federal court in Boston, his lawyers have been trying to paint him as a mostly normal American kid who fell under the spell of his now - deceased older brother, ultimately joining him in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

Now Twitter and even Instagram are falling under its spell.

Wolfe was criticized before for falling under the spell of his subject in the Muggeridge biography, overinflating Muggeridge's stature as a Christian apologist.

Some of us, in a not so dim and distant past fell under the spell of such psuedo - magisterial systems and supposed them to be true and accurate in all things.

Don't fall under spells.

Coming back to Harvard in the fall of 1925, he fell under the spell of Pierce and Whitehead and «Husserl almost dropped out of my mind for years (PCC 90).

In the early days in Palestine, before outstanding individuals appeared in the prophetic succession, bands of prophets represented the most fanatic patriotism of the Hebrew tribes, and Saul's espousal of his people's cause against their enemies followed his falling under the spell of the prophets» frenzy.

They fall under the spell of one or another charismatic rabbi (or «Rebbe»), a phenomenon for which a precedent already existed in the century - old Hasidic communities of Lubavitch, Satmar, Belz and other less well known East - European centers.

Let us imagine Jessie fell under the spell of the coercive eugenicist my wife resisted and agreed to abort her three OI - affected offspring — Lloyd, Mabel, and Cyril — while retaining her firstborn Laura as her sole «genetically pure» child.

Boethius... as for myself, I have never, even as a young Catholic (altar boy), fallen under that spell where I believed that I had to toe the party line.

Once again, I fall under the spell of the savory side.

While stationed in Germany he'd often visit Belgium and France, where he fell under the spell of the country's indigenous beers.

Metropolitan Brewing Krankshaft After a stint studying brewing in Munich, Chicago's DougHurst fell under the spell of lagers, later founding the German - focusedMetropolitan Brewing.

A piece on how the picturesque town of Dinard has fallen under the spell of Gareth Bale and his Wales team - mates during Euro 2016.

Not a busy night for him yesterday, but I am looking forward to seeing if he falls under the spell of inconsistency that has plagued his predecessors.

Lots of other mamas have fallen under the spell of the short and sweet name in recent decades.

Trust nobody really trusted Miliband, none of the working poor were falling under the spell of Reeves a Progress right wing Drone who would be home in the third Reich, never mind the third way.

Cuomo and his administration fell under the spell of Elon Musk, one of Silicon Valley's flashiest showmen, when the state, which had dedicated $ 225 million from Buffalo Billion to build a solar panel factory in Riverbend for Silveo, increased that commitment to a whopping $ 750 million after Musk's SolarCity bought Silveo.

Even the most unruly hair can fall under the spell of a proper boar - bristled brush.

Watch Honda's Asimo humanoid robot up close, and you may fall under its spell.

You fall under its spell.

I've fallen under the spell of the idea that because something is more expensive and has a brand name, it automatically makes it better, this product just proved me wrong.

Sorvino does have a wonderfully sly look as the Princess, and it's easy to imagine everybody falling under her spell.

Hank collaborates on a musical with a rock star while taking up with his beautiful muse; Charlie and Stu compete for Marcy; Marcy falls under the spell of a radical feminist; Becca drops out of college to become a writer.

Vanessa Ives and her allies find themselves locked in epic battle against an unholy evil; Sir Malcolm falls under the spell of a bewitching temptress; Ethan's big secret becomes known as his past comes back to haunt him.

While in a church in South Central, Bulworth falls under the spell of the beautiful Nina (Berry).

Philip is a young Englishman who falls under the spell of a beautiful but manipulative woman named Rachel.

Part of this is having the Brendan Fraser character in «Gods and Monsters» or the Peter Sarsgaard character in «Kinsey» or the Daniel Brühl character in this, the person who falls under the spell of someone and then has to break away.

Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey star as an oddly intimate brother and sister who fall under the spell of an abandoned home high on a rocky English coastline.

A young Dennis Hopper plays a sailor on shore leave who falls under the spell of a mysterious woman (Linda Lawson) posing in a mermaid costume for tourists at the Santa Monica Pier.

The trouble is that, like every on - screen male, Stillman allows himself to fall under her spell, and the result is a film whose dramatic dice is so loaded in its anti-heroine's favour that it fatally undermines her victory.

Convinced that all magic is for show and all spiritualism is hokum, Stanley observes the glamorous Sophie Baker (Emma Stone) at work, only to fall under her spell, and question his lifelong disavowal of love and metaphysics.

At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

The film stars Joaquin Phoenix in a widely praised performance as an ex-Navy man who falls under the spell of the «master» of the title, played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

If they fall under its spell, it could be looking at between six and nine nominations.

She's fallen under the spell of her sleazy soccer coach Mr B (Franco) while he's stuck with a sociopathic screw - up of a friend in Fred (Nat Wolff), an obnoxious idiot who'd be sorted out in minutes if everyone wasn't too stoned or wimpish to tell him to tone it down.

When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).

Indeed, Woodley is almost too lovely to pull off such a character, but we quickly fall under the spell of her easy rapport with Teller.

Baumbach and Gerwig have both noted in interviews that Mistress America is in part inspired by those 1980s comedies — like Something Wild and After Hours — in which a preppy square falls under the spell of an outrageous bon vivant.

We then flash back to the spring of 1922 New York, where Carraway (Tobey Maguire), then a bonds salesman and aspiring writer, falls under the spell and allure of his neighbour, the enigmatic yet elusive Jay Gatsby.

It tells the story of a lonely college freshman who falls under the spell of her future stepsister (their parents are about to be married), a 30 - year - old woman who lives in Times Square.

There it all turns a bit Batman Begins when he falls under the spell of Swinton's unusual Celtic mystic and healer.

But here it seems the themes are opening up considerably, with the magnetism of this kind of leader being explored more deeply as Marling falls under the spell of Alexander Skarsgård (who wouldn't?).

Even the most harden cinemagoer will fall under the spell of Room at least once, and so far it seems every audience have fallen suit.

Fall under the spell of Love Actually and share the laughs and charm again...

There, Robert Mitchum was the «tec falling under her spell; here it's Byrne.

Things take an unexpected turn when Philip falls under her spell, which gradually develops into a love affair.

The new setting revivifies the harsh forces of class and gender at work in the story, as the sweet but inscrutable title character (Freida Pinto) falls under the spell of a wealthy young man (Riz Ahmed) and leaves her family in dusty Rajasthan for better wages in Mumbai and glamor at the margins of the film industry.

Bellflower (R for nudity, drug use, graphic sexuality, disturbing violence and pervasive profanity) Romance drama about a couple of buddies (Evan Glodell and Tyler Dawson) who build flamethrowers and other weapons of mass destruction with plans for world domination until one of them has second thoughts when he falls under the spell of a charismatic temptress (Jessie Wiseman).

It isn't long of course before they find themselves doing more than herding cattle, as the Germans infiltrate the community to retrieve information and the menfolk fall under the spell of a glamorous journalist (a well - cast Catherine Zeta Jones).