Bewitchment

The love that drives him increasingly looks like something baser and less flattering--a kind of bewitchment he seems helpless against, though it comes from within. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many Malawians hold similar beliefs about the possibility of bewitchment, and we had heard numerous disturbing tales involving children and witchcraft from other clients in the clinic. ❋ Chi Mgbako (2011)

Magic spells, poisons, potions and enchantments may be frequent plot devices at the ballet, but the art form itself is under a bewitchment of its own making. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gillian Anderson's version of the duchess the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, begins as a bewitchment and ends like the strike of a rattlesnake. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2011)

What the local people saw as bewitchment he saw as mental stress. ❋ Karen Palmer (2010)

Its prevalence is not the result of a recent word transfer or innovation, but reflects the preservation of an ancient verb root of persistent meaning that dates back to the proto-Bantu period of the early third millennium BCE. 56 In other words, the idea of bewitchment has retained its current meaning and linguistic form for at least 5,000 years. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This sickness is often brought on by bewitchment and not from their choice to refuse a condom. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And yet in Julian Mitchell's exemplary adaptation it glides on to the stage scented with the peculiar tang of Ford's writing: a mixture of regret, bitterness, bewilderment and bewitchment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Snow had seemed to sweep Ric and myself up in his mystic trail of bewitchment and hidden purposes. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2009)

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language … and … what is your aim in philosophy? ❋ Unknown (2009)

For me, Webern's Hitler rantings are testimony more to the general bewitchment of the Austro-German intellectual class than to any deep flaws in Webern's own person. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

Failure to demonstrate a certain degree of masculinity is automatically assumed to display impotency, homosexuality or even bewitchment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“I believe art should exist solely for purposes of transformation, the bewitchment of all humankind.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Accusations of bewitchment are rarely based on sound evidence or fact, but are often motivated through fear, superstition, jealousy, envy and spite. ❋ Christopher (2009)

My trainer has been banding for nearly fifty years, but the flicker of his first bewitchment still crosses his face. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)