Claire Fox

Are Labour members inherently bigoted against women, unable to objectively assess political attributes beyond the gender prism? This accusation seems particularly ludicrous when levelled at a party so much in thrall to identity politics that it sometimes feels more like a student union than an organisation set up to defend the working class.

British Writer

Megan Phelps-Roper

When people are in the thrall of poisonous ideology, it's really not all about deliberate ill will, or inherent hatred, or a lack of intelligence. It's about the unbelievable destructiveness and staying power of bad ideas and about finding ways to equip people with the tools they need to fight them.

American Activist

Deborah Moggach

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

English Writer

Tom Junod

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

American Journalist

Mariella Frostrup

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

British Journalist

Donald G. Mitchell

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

American Writer

Todd Gitlin

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

American Sociologist

Steve Hanke

Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

American Economist

Robert Lepage

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

Canadian Playwright

Jack Levine

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

American Artist

Use 'thrall' to express lack of freedom due to control by others or things, like addictions.

Control and Freedom

'Thrall' is old-fashioned; it can give a historical or literary feel to your writing or speech.

Archaic Tone

Be careful not to use 'thrall' insensitively when referring to actual people who are enslaved.

Not for People

'Thrall' indicates a strong grip on power when used in political contexts.

Politics and Power

Use 'thrall' to describe situations where control is overbearing or unjust.

Oppressive Situations

It highlights scenarios where there's a significant power imbalance, often unfairly.

Power Imbalance

 Okay, this is a really ingenious scenario. It's very speculative. It's fascinating. But I've got a big problem with it, and the problem is It's a pseudo-religious point of view. Now, Lawrence thinks he's an atheist, but he's still in thrall to a religious worldview.

Why does the universe...

 snakes her stinger into the roaches brain and injects toxins that put the roach completely in her thrall the first disabling sting wears off quickly but the roach has lost its will to walk away the wasp finds a nesting burrow she