Robinson and his generation were in thrall to science and felt that religion must change.
He is in debt and in thrall to our greatest president, and he knows it.
While denying it, the Federal Reserve is still in thrall to the Phillips curve.
The same-sex marriage advocates occasionally demonize their opponents as Christian conservatives in thrall to Pat Robertson.
He just needed to keep one of his stable of ego boosters in thrall.
In his eyes, Mr Schnittke was in thrall to formalism, cosmopolitanism and, worse still, religion.
The administrative state, in thrall to a decadent cultural elite, has lost the consent of the governed.
Just occasionally, an Ayckbourn play may seem schematic, in thrall to a challenge he has set himself.
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Rich in resources and education, Russia is still in thrall to an autocrat and outdated political and economic institutions.
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There are few companies as large as News Corp. that are so devoted and in thrall to one man.
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Meanwhile, India's version of capitalism, still in thrall to old ways of patronage, has led to massive corruption scandals.
Graham nearly loses his life to this malignantly cunning killer in a frightening, chilling chase that holds you in thrall.
Soon the two fall in thrall to an older surfer, Sando, who calls the boys to ever-riskier battles with water.
Throughout her book Ms Ahuja seems to be in a trance herself, in thrall to the glamour of her subjects.
Kelly Hutchinson is sweetly in thrall as Solness' hapless young mistress, while Max Gordon Moore is effective as her humble, oblivious fiance.
No, these smokers were in thrall to the cigarette advertisements that said light cigarettes were potentially less deadly than other cancer sticks.
That a man of such prolific mental powers should be in thrall to such an adolescent obsession only serves to highlight his humanity.
It also conjures up something of Mr. Buren's own personality, which has never been in thrall to the prevailing winds of artistic conformity.
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There are few companies which, over so long, have so assiduously hired the kind of people who would be in thrall to one man.
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Mr. Ellena's slim book is rich with insights into the mind of a Frenchman and of a creative person in thrall to his craft.
Many Europeans and Americans wonder whether Mr Netanyahu is himself a dyed-in-the-wool rejectionist, or is simply in thrall to the ultra-nationalists in his coalition.
The main opposition Telugu Desam Party lost power in 2004 partly because it was seen as in thrall to the IT industry and foreign investors.
It is, in part, the size and complexity of these worlds that keeps people in thrall: EverQuest, for example, features four continents and 25 countries.
Kirikou discovers that a beautiful sorceress holds his village in thrall.
We are in thrall to the narrative of selves that do not really exist in the way we imagine, a fabrication in which most novel-writing connives.
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"We are less concerned with which plays are taught than with the methods of the assessment process that some teachers are in thrall to, " he said.
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About 200, 000 spectators sat in thrall watching dancing beauties shimmy, shake and samba until dawn three nights running at the stadium that bears the name Sambadrome.
Yet in the 17th century the Jewish world from Aleppo to Amsterdam was in thrall to Sabbatai Sevi, a kabbalist who claimed to be the messiah.
For months, the conference has been somnolent as other countries waited for a British election to return (they hoped) a government less in thrall to Eurosceptics.
Despite their illusion of control, college coaches are fully in thrall to high school and club coaches in order to guarantee an open door to top players.
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