0 If you are in thrall to someone or something, or in the thrall of someone or something, he, she, or it has a lot of power to control you:
Her love for him was like a madness, and she was completely in its thrall.
Equally, they were by no means totally in thrall to populist sentiment.
These conservatives were then joined by ' ' growth liberals ' ' in developing a model of city development in thrall to corporate interests.
Insofar as he was a dualist, it was not because he wanted to keep part of the social world in the thrall of non-scientific beliefs.
She reveals the entrapment of children in a consumer society, which leaves them relatively powerless, and in thrall to the illusion of choice and the orchestration of desire.
Our current thrall with identities in the past, and the difficulties in penetrating those identities, are a reflection, or transferral, of our anxieties and interests in the present.
In arguing for that philosophy one is in thrall to the grand myth of rationality and thereby one abandons the very philosophy that one is arguing in favour of.
It is producer-oriented rather than consumer-oriented, and it is in thrall to the unions.
They have, in addition to that, a system of deferred rebates by which they are held continually in thrall to that same builders' merchant.
