英:['spelˌbaɪndə]
美:['spelˌbaɪndə]
英:['spelˌbaɪndə]
美:['spelˌbaɪndə]
spell·bind·er
spel baIn dr
noun
someone or something that holds attention as if by a spell, such as a compelling orator or entertainer, or a fascinating book.
The first known use of spellbinder was in 1888
spellbindernoun
a very powerful speaker
one that compels attention
1 And the Rev. James tramped up and down the kitchen, speaking with all the vehemence of a political spellbinder, until his wife caught him by the coat and insisted that she wanted to be kissed.
2 Until now, I have had strong reservations about Ms. Shivalingappa; and I still don’t find her one of the greatest spellbinders of Indian dance.
3 His suite for the Middle Eastern instrument in "5 Windows" would be a spellbinder just by itself.
4 So memorable in Deaf West's production of “Flowers for Algernon,” Durant is a spellbinder who jerks his fair share of tears in a galvanic turn.
5 The thing about the bloodthirsty Richard, who ascends to power through lies, dirty tricks and thuggery, is that on some level he’s a spellbinder.
6 This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder.
7 But any worries that the spellbinder who created the “Leenane” trilogy and “The Pillowman” might have lost his gift for holding an audience in his demented thrall are vanquished almost as soon as “Hangmen” begins.
8 He was considered a spellbinder of uncommon power.
9 Democracy's dark hints that the dominant party had been rent by factional strife were suddenly answered by an outrush of spellbinders from Republican headquarters, a flood of literature, and an astonishing display of active harmony.
10 Out of the simplest and most familiar material — a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess — Albee fashions a spellbinder.
11 But it can still be a spellbinder, he knows.
12 In sheer storytelling terms, Cuarón is the bedtime spellbinder who takes the child inside every moviegoer on a nail-gnawing spaceflight and into a space traveler’s dread at feeling alone in the universe.
13 Sylvia, in the course of her letter, confined herself to impartial narrative, and began with the event of the spellbinder, which Harley had told to her in detail.
14 A sportive bull-pup, malevolently released by some one in the crowd, danced up to the horse-block, barking joyfully, and made a lightning dive for the spellbinder's legs.
15 “Kingdom of the Blind” is the 14th mystery in the Inspector Gamache series — and it’s a spellbinder.
16 She isn't going to be a Socialist spellbinder.
17 Johnson would later describe Hitler as “a spellbinder”; in 1964, well after he had been forced to abjure his Nazi past, he insisted in letters that Hitler was “better than Roosevelt.”
18 The Irish dramatist has been unwinding spellbinders for two decades now – ghost tales, morality plays and spiritual mysteries laced with the wry comedy of ordinary people bumbling through life.
19 One of the spellbinders of ancient Greece, we are told, orated on the sands with his mouth filled with pebbles.
20 Agery as a spellbinder was at his best, when a hushed whisper, growing into a general alarm, announced that members of the Ku Klux, an organization noted for the assassination of Republicans, were coming.