fall under the spell of (someone)

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fall under the spell of (someone)

To come under the influence or control of someone because one finds him or her fascinating, enchanting, or seductive. Our son has never acted out like this before. I think he must have fallen under the spell of that new friend of his. Such was the magnitude of her beauty that countless men have fallen under the spell of the duchess.
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said Golenishtchev, he too, with unmistakable sincerity, falling under the spell of the picture.
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WOODY ALLEN: New movie Whatever Works features yet another hot young thing falling under the spell of an older man.
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He's now getting treatment and is rejuvenated, but it could all help to explain the band's Jekyll and Hyde sound from revved up, over-harsh rock complete with yells, screams and howls through spiky punk pop to seemingly falling under the spell of Beach Boy evangelists.
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Falling under the spell of local Gestapo chief Ludwig Muentze (Sebastian Koch), Rachel finds her allegiances torn between the man she loves and the resistance movement spearheaded by Gerben Kuipers (Derek de Lint).
Jew can't resist her Nazi lover; BLACK BOOK (15) VERDICT: ****
ASDA seems to be falling under the spell of its union phobic US owner Wal-Mart.
Kevin Maguire: ASDA
When he was a student at Cooper Union he'd continued to live at home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, while falling under the spell of Hans Haacke, a popular professor and influential theorist who privileged the conceptual and political over the formal.
Philip Taaffe
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