Example sentences for: spellbinding

How can you use “spellbinding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Spellbinding, enchanting, bewitching stuff" (Paul Davies, the Daily

  • Upon reading Adrian Room's “Don't Get Your Titles in a Twist” [XVI, 3], I was happily surprised to see reference made to the tiny, misspelled, but spellbinding novel by Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters . I have been an ardent admirer of “Miss Daisy” ever since 1928, when I had the good fortune to be cast in a dramatization of her novel, presented at the Strand Theatre, London, in January of that year.

  • Some find it "spellbinding," with "a solemn eroticism [that] sometimes recalls The Elephant Man " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the "slapped-on eeriness peels away to reveal little more than simplistic dramatic ploys" and that it is "neither weighty nor as weird as it would like to think" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). The balance tips slightly in the film's favor: The New York Times ' Maslin writes that the film "has style, gravity and originality to spare ...

  • Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ) labels it "a worthy final chapter to a great director's career," and Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) raves that it's his riskiest film and "a spellbinding addition to the Kubrick canon."


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