Sentences with phrase «life under the spell»

Though the Catholic church itself eventually failed to realize the truth of its own teaching it had done its job so well that for three centuries after the Reformation Catholic, Protestant and freethinker alike continued to live under the spell of Christendom.

Not exact matches

For a time he came under the spell of the enigmatic poet Stefan George, whose writings spoke of a heightened sense of «experience,» through which one perceives the multiple threads of the tapestry of life as a transparent whole.

She had been put under a magic spell twice in her life and she had gotten cured!

Mayor Bill de Blasio: Not one, but two Quinnipiac University Polls this week spelled trouble for Mr. de Blasio — the first showed his approval rating at an all - time low of 44 percent, the second showed that under his watch, New Yorkers found quality of life to be the worst that it's been since 1997.

The what if's, when you spell them out and look them square in the jaw, end up being small little things that get filed under «Irrelevant» in your Life File, along with getting into a «perfect» yoga pose or being the «perfect» weight.

We do get the basics, though, and besides, this story is more about the way Dennis falls under Rick's spell and the promise of making more money on one real estate deal than he has ever made in his entire life.

They both fall under Henry's spell and the results change their lives while leaving Henry exactly where he would rather not be.

Making up the other half of the movie is a more recent, frightening period in Wilson's life (he's played here by John Cusack), when he was under the (highly medicated) spell of unethical therapist Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), his only protection from whom being his beach blonde soul mate, Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks).

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.

One incautious prod too many and the Cube springs to life, causing a rift in space - time that allows malevolent Asgardian demi - God, Loki (Tom Hiddleston, in a continuation of his role in Thor), to pass through into Earth, nick the Cube, smash up the lab and cast archery mad SHIELD toughnut, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), under his spell in order to make good his escape to — purely for the sake of a later Captain America quip about Nazis — Germany.

Away from the cult — the members meet nightly, then return to their real lives by day — Peter professes to see right through Maggie's hocus - pocus, but Lorna can see that he's gradually falling deeper under her spell.

1903 12hp Bardon — Exploded Blueprints of the Bardon / The Origin's of Heiner Rossler's Rapier A Slice of Rapier History / The 1909 prototype Silver Stream — The remarkable surviving Irish 1909 Prototype / Australian Lincolns — Bill Bishop examines one of the earliest but short lived attempts to establish an Australian motor industry / Wolsleys 1935 - 1948 — The Trustworthy Wolsleys / The 1921 Touring GN — Michael Brisby falls under the spell of the car that proved economical motoring could be most entertaining!

Under her spell, Gabe makes a decision, the consequences of which strip him naked and change the course of the life he knows — and the future he thought he wanted.

That money — about $ 3,500, which she kept in a sock hidden under a pile of towels in the linen closet — ended up being used to cover her living expenses during a spell of unemployment after moving to a new town after she was separated.

When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun - splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air.

The Chapman brothers fell under the spell of Goya early on in their lives, once confessing that they «even considered changing their surname to Goya».

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