How To Use Enchantment In A Sentence

  • In fact, my computer is almost slower without my working enchantments on it.
  • DOES anyone share my disenchantment with a culture that seems to be growing of downright rudeness in business dealings? The Sun
  • If you have lost enchantment, you are liable to divisiveness, intolerance, and aggression.
  • From this perspective, the turn to an ontology of the psyche is the philosophical move that retains the space for metaphysical enchantment in an age of disenchantment. Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
  • This glittering dust they produce differs from the components normally acquired by a disenchantment spell.
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  • It is a transformation scene without a suggestion of stage carpentry or fireworks and there is something of enchantment about it.
  • Shanty says one of the reasons why the families are attracted to the idea of cohousing is their disenchantment with most of the residential estates built by major developers. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • In the laboratory of time, subtle essences of disenchantment and pessimism are distilled.
  • Part of this indifference is down to the current disenchantment with mainstream politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, Obama's election promises revolved, exactly, around the hope of doing away with the objectivization of political life and its corollaries: disenchantment, voter apathy, and nihilism. TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
  • An increasing disenchantment with the artificial and man-made aspects of the modern world. Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice
  • Freedom from children also means liberation from school-holiday travel - great news, because Greece in the springtime is pure enchantment.
  • Pernicious worldly things are great enchantments, they are retinacula spei The Lord's Prayer
  • The disenchantment is rooted in national economic policies that were framed decades ago. The Politics of Western Canada: Revolt or Reform
  • Holidays provide a rare opportunity for reflection, but the result can be unsettling, with a general disenchantment that sometimes turns into career anxiety. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a hush of silence as the maddening enchantments ceased, faces all around waiting for the next sign of what should happen, what confirmation to the miracle would be shown to them.
  • HARTFORD CHILDREN'S THEATRE (360 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT) will hold auditions for Disney's GEPPETTO & SON, the final production of the 2009-2010 20th Anniversary Main Stage Season "20 Years of Enchantment. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • We are not talking of me, however -- but because of this, which in me you call disenchantment, I am able to understand mamma's wish to leave society, all the more because, if I were in her position, all homage, show, luxury, amusements would for me be as impossible as they are for her. The Argonauts
  • Distance lends enchantment to the view. 
  • How different from the scene in the last century when Subrahmanya Bharati sang of the enchantment of Puduvai, lit by dawn gold streaming across the blue sea, resonant with Vedic chants, steeped in elegant Tamil culture!
  • The Gidbinn will reinforce the enchantments that protect the dockside from the evil that infests Kurast.
  • Part of this indifference is down to the current disenchantment with mainstream politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Following Cupid's arrows is akin to losing one's moral compass, and, in this sense, the affair brings about an identity crisis: how to reconcile the enchantment of an experience with the feeling that it's fundamentally wrong. Esther Perel: An Affair To Remember: What Happens In Couples After Someone Cheats? Part Two
  • It was a place of deep mystery and enchantment.
  • Lost respect for the police; I think that you might find the disenchantment is with your senior officers, who appear to have brain removal surgery, when attending senior officer’s training courses. on April 15, 2009 at 6: 12 pm | Reply thespecialone Diversity In Action (or ‘inaction’ if you prefer) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Cricket chiefs are also hopeful that Ashes hysteria will also help dispel any lingering disenchantment among fans or sponsors caused by the match-fixing saga that scarred Pakistan's tour of England last summer. English cricket hopes for a sponsorship bonanza
  • Jaya, a retelling of the Mahabharatha by India's leading mythologist, Devdutt Pattanaik, weaves wisdom and enchantment together in stories, commentary, and art. Vamsee Juluri: Writing Mythology in an Age of Reality Crisis
  • The last few years have witnessed a gradual disenchantment within architectural education with the goals espoused by the architectural profession. Ballardian » A Near Future: Nic Clear’s Tribute to JG Ballard
  • The first inkling of Cheney's disenchantment with Bush came in a long account in Time magazine of his failed attempt to win a presidential pardon for his aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
  • November and December hold the enchantment of the holidays.
  • Odette relates to him the tale of her enchantment, and then the dancing begins.
  • His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
  • Like the princess in a fairy-tale forest, she'd free the jewel from its stinging enchantment, quickly polish it to high luster, then royally present it.
  • Midnight Muse offer you enchantments for the senses and the spirit, with our selection of Pre-Raphaelite art prints, mystical jewellery, velvet pouches, books, tarot, notecards, candles, and bath and body luxuries.
  • As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.
  • His diagnosis of disenchantment with politicians is spot on, but his prescription won't work. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his mood, that current of fretful optimism alternating with a cavernous disenchantment, is more or less unchanged: “I don’t know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it’s hard for me to get interested in other people’s vacations.” Revenge of the Wimps
  • It's a testament to her powers of enchantment---powers which in this case she exercised, as she was fond of saying," without the juju. GALILEE
  • He couldn't get rid of the enchantment of Lucy.
  • His landscapes, now given added breadth by the influence of Rubens, show similar characteristics and exhale an air of enchantment.
  • Obviously measures have been taken to rectify the situation, but there is still an impression of disillusion, if not disenchantment.
  • Now, the hominal being whose heart has thus been purified and sanctified is invincible, and the enchantments of hell cannot prevail against him if he makes use of this sacrifice to dissipate the Spirits of Evil. Là-bas
  • The wilderness campsite had its own peculiar enchantment.
  • With that, the last kind of skills are called environments, or the "enchantments". Jaimewolf Diary Entry
  • Van Dyk called disenchantment with South Africa's foreign policy and uncertainty of what effect it will have "a major factor in the weakening of the rand. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • This is a time in which disenchantment with politics is a major theme of public life. Times, Sunday Times
  • His was a wild, uncivilized kind of handsomeness, she thought, like that of a noble, untamed creature of the forest, changed by enchantment into a man and thrust into modern clothes. The Port of Adventure
  • There are witches, fairies, and mermaidens [24] in the ballads: omens, dreams, spells, [25] enchantments, transformations, [26] magic rings and charms, "gramarye" [27] of many sorts; and all these things are more effective here than in poets like Spenser and Collins, because they are matters of belief and not of make-believe. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • The wilderness campsite had its own peculiar enchantment.
  • Therefore, a miraculous act proves nothing, for it can be done through enchantment and sorcery.
  • Electoral apathy is of great concern and seems to reflect the disconnection and disenchantment that many doctors feel.
  • At the same time, reports that the initial spurt in sales has not been sustained have created disenchantment in the market.
  • With respect to lycanthropy, that is, the transformation of men into wolves by the power of enchantment, we may observe that a young shepherd’s having killed a wolf, and clothed himself with its skin, was enough to excite the terror of all the old women of the district, and to spread throughout the province, and thence through other provinces, the notion of a man’s having been changed into a wolf. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Of the men who, as I have said, admired her, some felt a peculiar enchantment in what they called her ugliness; others declared her devilish handsome; and some shrank from her as if with an undefined dread of perilous entanglement, if she should but catch them looking her in the face. Mary Marston
  • It should seem that, by some kind of enchantments, they had thrown him into a delirium so far, that he had forgot both himself and the sabbath-day. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • The intricate, geometric patterns of the choreography mirror the formality of the music, steadfastly ignoring its enchantments.
  • As the Escalade turned into Sedona's secluded Enchantment Resort-nestled on 70 acres in the midst of the red rock-bound Boynton Canyon -- my impression wasn't of being in a faraway part of the country but on another planet altogether. Monique Stringfellow: First Impressions of the Desert
  • This imaginative play is utter enchantment in the best of Russian theatrical evocative tradition.
  • Despite their enchantment with the Greek Island, the couple have no wish to leave their home.
  • While he hasn't put a title to his collection, one cannot miss the sense of rapture and enchantment that the paintings seem to convey.
  • As ever her dancing was a sheer pleasure to watch, as she span around him weaving her enchantment and capturing his heart.
  • Sacrifice Seal of Primordium : Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
  • Sitting in my office, waiting for the dream to release me, I thought of flooded fairie meadows, "the Green Meadows of Enchantment" off Gresholm Island, near Wales, and "The Voyage of Bran Mac Febal": Relics from the Dark Times (4)
  • Although distance lends perspective, it can also lend enchantment.
  • Part of this indifference is down to the current disenchantment with mainstream politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carrasco tells him that they have discovered that Dulcinea is free from the enchantment.
  • The conference season took place against a growing mood of public cynicism, disenchantment and disengagement from politics.
  • And what we want in practical philosophy when it comes to this, is a new kind of enchantments, with capacities large enough to swallow up these, as the rod of Moses swallowed up the rods of the Egyptians. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • The first is that of a quasi-Weberian re-enchantment of a denuded reality through re-conceptualisation. Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology
  • Ever since her childhood in York - she was an only child - she has been besotted with the uses of enchantment in fairy stories.
  • The strength of enchantment cast over life by dream is mirrored in Franco's filmmaking technique.
  • The expenses scandal was the culmination of popular disenchantment with politics rather than its sole cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or possibly her disenchantment was a result of her deteriorating personal life. The Alibi
  • Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called 'The Knight of the The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 07
  • That the world should be so enchanting after the enchantment of Vitor's lovemaking was entirely appropriate.
  • Prayer, my sin-beset brethren, standfast prayer, is the otherwise unidentified haemony whose best habitat was the Garden of Gethsemane; and with that holy root in your heart and in your mouth, there is "no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
  • Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant! Contributions to All the Year Round
  • In a land of enchantment, a garden most gorgeous, a plain sprinkled with coloured meteors, a forest with sparks of purple and ruby and golden fire gemming the foliage; a region, not of trees and shadow, but of strangest architectural wealth — of altar and of temple, of pyramid, obelisk, and sphinx: incredible to say, the wonders and the symbols of Egypt teemed throughout the park of Villette
  • My disenchantment with the bad overpriced food of Manhattan has led me many times to delve into this underground guerilla dining scene that is almost completely unmined – and yet is hiding in plain sight right in front of us. Look… Midtown Lunch Now Famous Downtown!?! | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • This disenchantment with Keynesianism provided a propitious environment within which alternative approaches to economic analysis and political management could flourish.
  • FIRE and fury! distraction! destruction! and death! — with all the unmeaning exclamations of frenzical exclaimers! — what is now to be done? where can I be secure from the effect of enchantment? Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
  • Yet that decision may merely aggravate voters'disenchantment with the EU.
  • It was an afternoon of pure enchantment. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a testament to her powers of enchantment---powers which in this case she exercised, as she was fond of saying," without the juju. GALILEE
  • Voltaire's legacy also cemented the alleged linkage that joined positivist science on the one hand with secularizing disenchantment and dechristianization on the other in the progressive modernization of the world. Voltaire
  • The sun is conquering the winter and lends a magical enchantment to the snow.
  • There is growing disenchantment with the way the country/school/club is being run.
  • It quickly becomes apparent that the monster is the son of the local lord of the manor, placed under enchantment by his stepmother.
  • The cottage has a verandah on its front, enclosed by a small railing, tastefully painted, and ornamented with a few running plants, which intwine its posts; and, while charming the eye, lend the delicacy of their fragrance to render to this spot the enchantment of an Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
  • For worse or "worser" the rightward drift of the Israeli electorate underlies a deep disenchantment, resentment and apprehension with the state of its external security embodied by the troika of terror that Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran pose to Israel's security. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Bibi & Avi or Tzpi & Avi: Change We Can't Believe In
  • Thanks for the endless hours of enchantment!
  • After spending a few days in Evangeline's country, about which Longfellow's beautiful poem has woven a spell of enchantment, Miss Sullivan and I went to Halifax, where we remained the greater part of the summer. The Story of My Life
  • Now is his chance for revenge, as bewitcher and bewitched are embroiled in a turbulent tale of mayhem, magic, and enchantment.
  • They had time after the summons to make suitable preparations -- and so it appears they succeeded by their "enchantments" in practising an illusion on the senses. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • AND anon as he had unshut the window the enchantment was gone; then he knew himself that he had done amiss. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • In our enchantment we are too often neglectful of that which made purchasing and consumption possible, namely, credit.
  • Richard adds to the enchantment of these tales with the rhythms of his mountain dulcimer and conga drum.
  • "[Tolkien] is proof that faith and enchantment can go hand in hand, that our imaginations don't have to starve."
  • Her exile from words may have led to her enchantment with literature, diction and cadence.
  • The more he remains glued to life with all its enchantments, so-called, the more he is assumed to be asleep.
  • As I said at the onset, I loved the movies, even the very few being offered today for those of even average intelligence, but I fear a total disenchantment is on its way, unless the moguls come up with a more engaging product for people of all ages and stop trying to overstuff us with all the hype and brainless baloney. Warren Adler: The Movies: A Fading Flame
  • -- all his doubts and perplexities resolved themselves at once, as by some enchantment, into a lovely, unexpected chord of extreme simplicity; and Martia was gently but firmly put aside, and the divine Julia quietly relegated to the gilded throne which was her fit and proper apanage. The Martian
  • This sense of enchantment, of utter absorption in a moment, is fundamental to the lyric and lies at the heart of what it has to offer.
  • Exit Chasing by Orange Can probably isn't the album for people who get off on giant choruses – the closest the band come is on the drumskin-tight Fires – but if you're in the market for some mind-expanding enchantment, you could do worse than seeking it out. SLACKERJACK – Cover Orange
  • Amanda was telling Jenna about the enchantment she had experienced when she was there.
  • Obviously measures have been taken to rectify the situation, but there is still an impression of disillusion, if not disenchantment.
  • They tried also to comfort her by saying in pantomime that some day her godmother might send them to bear her home again, and lift the enchantment that bound her. The Golden Apple Tree
  • The beauty of the scene filled us with enchantment.
  • This is part of the ritual enchantment offered by the art of cinema.
  • Roughly, Protestantism is all about the ‘disenchantment of the world’ and Catholicism is about magic and sacralization. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Books
  • In these moments, Mr. Himmelman's enchantment with the entomological soundscape is so complete that he can turn the most unpromising site—his Connecticut backyard, for example—into an insect lover's terra incognita, shimmering with possibility. The Orchestra After Dark
  • She may not even last till the end of her six-year term if she is weakened by any disenchantment.
  • In the laboratory of time, subtle essences of disenchantment and pessimism are distilled.
  • But there is now general disenchantment, particularly on the economy, standards in public life and tackling crime and antisocial behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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. Vitro Nasu » 2009 » May
  • ‘Many found reason less appealing than enchantment,’ she writes.
  • With the boats gone, the outside world vanished, and the enchantment was complete.
  • Intransigent towards ecstatics, sarcastic towards Catholics, intractable towards heretics, Calvinism participated unwittingly in the disenchantment of the world.
  • His followers comply and are so entertained until the enchantment is broken.
  • The long walks, when, to make up for play, her father told her of foreign places with magical names, outrivalled in enchantment any legendary fables. DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL
  • He contrasted this with the unrest in other European countries with their demonstrations and disenchantment with their governments. Times, Sunday Times
  • In point of fact, Weber's rationalization thesis can be understood with richer nuance when we approach it as, for lack of better terms, a dialectics of disenchantment and reenchantment rather than as a one-sided, unilinear process. Asthmatic
  • Like the princess in a fairy-tale forest, she'd free the jewel from its stinging enchantment, quickly polish it to high luster, then royally present it.
  • The enchantment with Asian art and architecture spread across Europe and across the Atlantic to the United States.
  • His objective was never simply to impress an audience, but to disclose whatever he discerned in music that was capable of enchantment.
  • And I wonder me here in Folsom, while democracy dreams its enchantments o'er the twentieth century world, whether there, in the rock-hewn crypt of that secret, desert valley, the bones still abide that once were mine and that stiffened my animated body when I was an Aryan master high-stomached to command. Chapter 21
  • It is the perfect destination, which provides enchantment, tranquility and adventure.
  • It would be disingenuous to deny that the programme makes a statement, but I don't think people should jump to the conclusion that there is a disenchantment with traditional theatre.
  • His thoughts were strong, bursting with emotion, but they could not yet break the enchantment.
  • The book covers such areas as locations associated with fairy sightings, fairy enchantments, changelings, the post-Reformation demonization of folk belief, fairies in literature, and Robert Kirk and the reinstatement of fairy belief. Myths and Scottish Fairies
  • Even mages are proficient with cloth armor, which though it doesn’t give an armor bonus, can be made of special materials or gain enchantments that do. 4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related
  • Based on Urbana's calculations, for every two ACORN members who continue to support the organization, one has quit in disenchantment. Peter Dreier: Why ACORN Fell: The Times , Lies, and Videotape
  • At a time of deep disenchantment and voter cynicism, she stood out as an honest human being.
  • If magus deemed the item and the inscriptions acceptable, the enchantment would be activated.
  • We smile in winter full of freshness and moist, the enchantment apple , the red in opium poppy and blue of gentian dominate aesthetics although gorgeous but still would be decomposed.
  • The word which our version renders by '"enchantments"' signifies Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • The word die seemed to hang in the air like an evil spell, a black enchantment that clutched at their hearts, made their mortal souls cringe with fear.
  • Military bases minimize enchantment, especially if you're stationed on one.
  • This time we have the landscape of the night, the glamour of moon and stars, -- pictures half real and half unreal, mystic imaginings, fancies, dreams, and the enchantment of "faerie," and throughout the unanswered cry, the eternal "Wherefore" of destiny. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1
  • I could set up a little enchantment of mine which I call the telephone, and he could not find out its secret in a hundred years. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • How simple I have been, to allow myself to be taken in by the few clever words she whispered yesterday, as she walked beside me, by a tolerably pretty little phrase embellished as it was by the silence of two o'clock in the morning, and all the wonderful enchantments of night. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • A glut of sob stories, short memories and disenchantment over aid funds will create a backlash that hardens people's hearts toward tragedy.
  • Torik, besides being a master metal smith, was also the rarest of craftsmen, one who could weave enchantments into his work.
  • The enchantment continues in the flame of azaleas, which is followed by the waxy pink of the laurel and the superb glory of the rhododendron. Blue Ridge Country
  • The interconnecting of memory, dream and landscape captured a realm of enchantment echoing the cinema of Tarkovsky and Cocteau.
  • Sometimes a sense of enchantment is enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment.
  • Medoc had begun to spin the Draoicht Suan, the ancient and powerful Enchantment of Slumber.
  • Distance lends enchantment to the view. 
  • A woman's search for love is the search for herself, for her own enchantment.
  • Part of the reason women are deserting orthodox medicine is a general disenchantment with its technology. Alternative Health Care for Women
  • And yet I have known some who have secured themselves for this misfortune by coming half-sated elsewhere, purposely to abate the ardour of their fury, and others who being grown old, find themselves less impotent by being less able; and particularly one who found an advantage by being assured by a friend of his that had a countercharm against certain enchantments that would defend him from this disgrace. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
  • The painting showed itself to me in all its fantasy and all its enchantment.
  • Sometimes a sense of enchantment is enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • In terms of dramatic influence the score balances subtle enchantment with brash, tribal expressions exceptionally well.
  • It is not possible to remedy this public disenchantment by more razzmatazz, electronic voting or Pop Idol stunts.
  • Even the seedpods, which are so often used in dried flower arrangements, suggest an otherworldly sense of exotic enchantment.
  • Part of the reason women are deserting orthodox medicine is a general disenchantment with its technology. Alternative Health Care for Women
  • I have often spoken of the value of the Benedictine arrangement of the altar, not only for re-orienting our liturgies, but also in assisting in the re-enchantment of a sanctuary and altar generally, by lending a verticality and presence to it. Another Sanctuary Revision
  • It was an afternoon of pure enchantment. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is effortless enchantment moving through fluctuant states of thought and feeling…. World’s Great Men of Color
  • 'Yes, but supposing: a complete transmogrification -- by some unimaginable ingression or enchantment, by nibbling a bunch of roses, or whatever you like to call it?' The Return
  • Australia has lived through a period of enchantment, nothing less.
  • Then [he says] comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society. My beloved South,
  • In the email he professes his support for the program, his enchantment with the lockbox and various other points.
  • Our public life is becoming more oligarchic in fact, despite its democratic form, losing its old enchantments.
  • I've been at Oxford for several days now, and my enchantment with this place grows by the minute.
  • The Everqueen herself gifted him with a heart-shaped broach which she had woven with enchantments for his safe return.
  • But there is now general disenchantment, particularly on the economy, standards in public life and tackling crime and antisocial behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I first got here I was under a double spell of enchantment.
  • Both Delusion and "Lighthouse" take place in the dark - a factor in their process of enchantment as obvious as it is necessary, but indicative of the palpability and immediacy involved in the experience (s) they convey. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams
  • The snapshot narratives in the literature of disenchantment typically pivot on ironic incidents in which action is proved futile and courage a waste. TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
  • On an album dedicated to the enchantment of pure nightclubbing, they appear to harbour an awareness of how partying one's blues away isn't an entirely neutral, innocent pastime, disconnected from the world.
  • Suddenly you realize that the enchantment of this place has left you.
  • Our natural state is antagonism towards authority and a general feeling of disenchantment.
  • The wilderness campsite had its own peculiar enchantment.
  • Two venal siblings wrestle with a force of enchantment far more powerful than anything they have ever imagined.
  • Less fathomable are his attempts to justify his growing disenchantment with the job.
  • On Monday evening the city of Paris presented a scene that might have been taken from the realms of enchantment: the illuminations were the most brilliant I have ever witnessed, forming a succession of magic panorama in which houses, hotels, palaces, and churches, shone with dazzling splendor, the glittering towers of the churches appeared like stars and comets suspended in the air. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • And I wonder me here in Folsom, while democracy dreams its enchantments o'er the twentieth century world, whether there, in the rock-hewn crypt of that secret, desert valley, the bones still abide that once were mine and that stiffened my animated body when I was an Aryan master high-stomached to command. Chapter 21
  • Now it seems that disenchantment with the land is deterring many from skilled farm jobs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet the article's overall tone conveyed a sense of disenchantment with the reformists' unfulfilled promises.
  • At the end of the esplanade and its enchantment is another delight; a bellombra, a gigantic tree with great white flowers in the form of cones.
  • Sometimes a sense of enchantment is enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • The past few years have seen Daniel Sinsel discard hia dark enchantment with male porn stars: black-eyed young men who gazed from his canvases like raffish Pans with a taste for S&M. This week's new exhibitions
  • Montesino also tells him that he will be informed how to break all these enchantments at another time.
  • The key to unlocking the film's enchantment is to uncover the unforced romance.
  • These events provoked the first signs of an intellectual disenchantment in Britain.
  • In this vicinity was passed a dolesome time, the country being wild and rugged, affording handsome scenery under different circumstances, but for us it had no enchantment. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service
  • There is growing disenchantment with the way the country/school/club is being run.
  • "Eat this sprig of the moly plant," the boy said, "and be protected from enchantment."
  • Her first enchantment with the dazzling array had quickly palled.
  • The reckless, shipwrecked man: flung ashore on the coast of the Maldives long ago, while sailing and soldiering as Indian Fighter; flung ashore since then, as hungry Parisian Pleasure-hunter and Half-pay, on many a Circe Island, with temporary enchantment, temporary conversion into beasthood and hoghood; -- the remote Var Department has now sent him hither. The French Revolution
  • The fire crackles, sweet wood smoke scents the air, a soft breeze kisses my cheek and the storyteller weaves a spell of enchantment.
  • In summary, if disenchantment is a source of environmentally destructive or uncaring attitudes, then both the aesthetic and the animist/panpsychist re-enchantment of the world are intended to offer an antidote to such attitudes, and perhaps also inspirations for new forms of managing and designing for sustainability. Environmental Ethics
  • The enchantment which held me spell-bound, intoxicated my mind like fumes of haschisch, and I could hardly recognise myself in this fairy-world character; it required an effort on my part to assure myself of my own identity, and that I was not misled by a dream. French and Oriental Love in a Harem
  • He saw it as combining usefulness with enchantment.
  • Enchantment is at the very heart of Elfin magic.
  • Disenchantment of life, or "Weltschmerz," became a fashionable malady. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)

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