ensnarement

The hope of riches was ensnarement enough.

Other more arcane limitations such as the ensnarement defense tend to be more difficult to apply.

This enchantment is described as an ensnarement.

Usually, she begins with a close focus on one or two characters and then widens it to reveal their ensnarement in family and local ties.

B. 23-44 Ensnarement of Victim.

The rod bent, its tip almost touching the choppy waves as the redfin fought its ensnarement.

The man tried to rise and run on, arms flailing, but was too weak and dazed to resist Craer's swift ensnarement of his wrists.

Leaving The Shadow in an air-tight trap, the master crook was faring forth on a quest that would result in his own ensnarement.

According to the investigators, "The submersible's modular construction of irregular shapes, projections, and appendages provide an excellent configuration for ensnarement by almost any type of obstruction."

Thus began the evolving depiction of Chris as a "co-alcoholic," the family member or loved one who enables an alcoholic to continue his or her ensnarement with the progressive disease.

And then - and then-One of the first steps in our ensnarement involved borrowing a telepath from the military base, so we could transmit our astronomical data to the observatory.

It is still a poser, as one audience member put it, that the businessman just happens to be carrying a woman's dress and shoes in his briefcase - handy props here for ensnarement.

ISAAC ASIMOV be taken for exactly that-or as a dangerous witch sent by the Devil for the ensnarement of men.

Only the power of Pryn's own imagination gives her a weapon to fight free from the seductions of these simple people's basic goodness and her own ensnarement in their fundamental hopelessness.

"Black Widow," set to an atmospheric score by Marjorie Whylie, was an enjoyably gruesome dance for a lethal female spider and her male prey, whose gradual ensnarement is conveyed with impressive subtlety.

However, the initial "buy in" by the mark to what appears on the thin surface to be a positive relationship in which both parties' needs will be met steadily progresses to full ensnarement in the manipulation trap.

We can presume that they have told her the full story of Siegfried's ensnarement and betrayal, and that only the return of the ring to the waters of the Rhine can lift its curse.

For Gillis infatuation slides into obsession, even as he becomes aware of ensnarement in a fatal web of greed, ambition and deceit, of a trap that threatens his sanity, his life and that of his son.

When she had been at the Academy, she had remembered hearing tales of an Earth animal, a coyote, that was said to be so averse to ensnarement that it would chew off one of its own limbs or appendages in order to escape from a trap.

The sad, comic story of Harry's fateful ensnarement in post-Noriega Panamanian machinations owes an obvious debt to "Our Man in Havana," Graham Greene's mischievous "entertainment" about an English vacuum cleaner salesman similarly entangled in pre-Castro Cuba.

José's insistence that, despite Carmen's blandishments, he must return to duty leads to a quarrel; the arrival of Zuniga, the consequent fight and José's unavoidable ensnarement into the lawless life culminates musically in the triumphant hymn to freedom that closes the act.

The Philadelphia: At a restaurant, a man is informed by a friend that his frustratingly unlucky day is the result of his ensnarement in an anomalous pocket of reality, called a "Philadelphia," in which he will only be fulfilled by asking for the opposites of what he wants.

He was a professor and head of the Department of Government at New York University from 1955 to 1962, and in that post he argued, in a 1958 speech to a gathering of social workers, that more widespread individualistic thinking was necessary to escape what he called the ensnarement of bureaucracy.

When the Moon intrudes into the sphere of influence of the planet Vega, a deputation of Vegans, beautiful to behold, arrives at Moonbase Alpha to remonstrate, and ends by kidnapping two Alphans to the Vega system-abetted by telepathic ensnarement and Positronic Transfer.