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"besotted" Definitions
  1. besotted (by/with somebody/something) loving somebody/something so much that you do not behave in a sensible way

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Mr. Amalric plays Yves as a still-besotted fan of Barbara, and as a director he's a still-besotted fan of Ms. Balibar's.
Yaichi's daughter, Kana, has become besotted with this 'foreigner' uncle.
The word from the palace is that he is besotted.
Dujardin plays a man besotted with a preposterously unfashionable deerskin jacket.
Besotted, Mulan's filmmakers even pushed back production five months for Liu.
For all her identification with McCullers, Ms. Vega is hardly besotted.
But this besotted, often very beautiful book continually loses its way.
At his most besotted, Tom still keeps something of himself in reserve.
"He has completed our world and we are all totally besotted right now."
Trump came into office besotted by military brass, appointing retired four star Gen.
The besotted model shared this photo of her musician boyfriend on Twitter yesterday.
Once he committed to fatherhood, he found himself besotted, obsessed, joyous … and terrified.
Happily, my daughter and son-in-law are models of calm, besotted parenthood.
Despite wildly positive reviews, they have mostly fallen flat with S.U.V.-besotted consumers.
For years, the general public had been besotted by Tesla and its gauzy promises.
Knut's besotted fans often asked how a parent could forsake such a cute cub.
Queer people are most tolerated when neatly packaged into nuclear families or besotted couples.
Mr. Claiborne arrived to cover the omelets but left besotted with Ms. Heatter's desserts.
"In the Realm of Perfection" is slenderer, knottier, more self-consciously besotted than that.
But the two leads are so believably besotted that their occasional immaturity doesn't rankle.
Match the besotted, thwarted, inappropriate or (more rarely) happy character with his or her beloved.
"I don't know who you are, but I need you," the besotted guitarist told her.
The next time I saw her again, I was besotted, my neural network a jumble.
Eventually, the Nuns made it to New York, and Escovedo was besotted by the scene.
Brown becomes besotted with a simple black $7,000 suit dress by Oscar de la Renta.
It is finding an eager audience not necessarily in the besotted ranks of preteen Beliebers.
Will is pursued by a besotted friend who plays provocatively with binary conceptions of gender.
David Seager was besotted with his bright daughter and wanted her to become a physician.
"Everyone wants you/Everyone loves you/How can I possibly compete?" the besotted McCullers says.
Binary oppositions get slammed a lot in our "rhizome"-besotted era, sometimes with interesting results.
While Bonaparte was besotted with her, for Josephine it was very much a marriage of convenience.
Moments later, Selina asked the same question of Gary, her besotted aide, played by Tony Hale.
I was a drama-besotted adolescent who became a college actress who became a theater critic.
A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.
Now she has returned from exile in New York, hoping to marry the besotted Chris instead.
By using the L word, Dr. Wynne may well appeal to the many besotted dog owners.
I've always been besotted by history, but it's not part of my academic credentials in any way.
Customers are besotted by the mood lighting, leather seats, oddly catchy safety instruction videos, and snack selection.
She was besotted by paint — what it felt like physically and what she could do with it.
At one time Zuckerberg was besotted with gaining access to China but he has changed his tune.
The media is besotted with this power disparity: "little people, big world", "small person, big dreams", etc.
I loved researching, and the first time I went online in the mid-aughts, I was besotted.
Sam is besotted with Sarah's butt and, after he finds a way to meet her, Sarah herself.
Aesthetic experience is one avenue to self-overcoming—an idea that the art-besotted Nietzsche seized upon.
Flannery became besotted with Anne, but also with the potential that Anne augured for Flannery's own adulthood.
And through it all, the besotted Welshman's wild refrain, raging, raging, against the dying of the light.
It's curious, however, that a writer so word-besotted should have such a blind spot for literature.
The playwright Erin Markey plays Reagan, the besotted girl; Becca Blackwell stars as the desirable boat and horse.
This holiday and its forced feel-good vibes can make even the most besotted couple roll their eyes.
We'd get a corner of a besotted piece of wood lit just barely before it would flicker out.
Noname: Room 25 (self-released) I got why hip-hop heads were so besotted with her 2016 Telefone.
"All my life I have been besotted with racehorses," Mr. Campbell said in his Hall of Fame speech.
That conclusion should not have been surprising, except perhaps to economists besotted with the virtues of competitive financial markets.
Wolverton seems to have been besotted with the question: How funny can you make the grotesque and the repulsive?
But beyond a bounce it's unclear whether the uneven, growth-besotted character of this market is poised to change.
The muralist packed up, leaving a half-painted Liza Minnelli to gaze out, smirking, on the besotted crowd. ♦
The Scottish writer Ali Smith is surely the most pun-besotted of contemporary novelists, edging out even Thomas Pynchon.
When Frederick Law Olmsted passed through Texas, in 1853, he became besotted with the majesty of the Texas legislature.
"Australians became so besotted with the case," said Janine Hosking, who made the documentary "Ganja Queen" about Corby's case.
His philosophy, the rant of a besotted boob making things up in public, is anti-American at its core.
We do not learn from the author how the God-fearing Puritans came to be besotted with demon drink.
In the book, Pearl and Trip have a fast, passionate, and completed experience, leaving Pearl thrilled and Trip besotted.
The N.B.A., like many large American businesses, is besotted by the opportunity to make money in China's expanding market.
"I'm sure I've heightened it, but there is no doubt that Victoria was besotted with Melbourne," Ms. Goodwin said.
What it captures most evocatively and viciously is the culture of overstressed, Ivy-besotted student achievers and dumb money.
They were also—even the plainest among them—guaranteed to have at least one besotted boyfriend in their lifetime.
Following the women as closely as a besotted lover, Norm Li's hand-held camera rarely turns its gaze elsewhere.
It's not just ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez that the Canadian pop star is toying with; it's his besotted Beliebers, too.
Ms. Martínez's Butterfly had transformed, in both manner and sound, from a demure, besotted girl to a weary, hardened woman.
A rhapsodic interlude follows when she marries Ewan Tavendale (Kevin Guthrie), a handsome local farmer who is besotted with her.
Cervantes is telling us that our besieged, besotted, captive humanity should not lose hope that we can awaken in time.
Besotted with language from a very young age, he wrote his first verse, hymns for his father's congregation, at 20143.
"Broadway Baby" begins with a tepid song-and-dance number and a scene of her as a showbiz-besotted kid.
When Abdallah asks her if she loves him—he has always been besotted with her—she laughs in his face.
Love is rough, but Yaryan's video is humorous—mostly thanks to the construct that he's hopelessly besotted with a golden retriever.
I was still besotted, of course, and it's only now I look back that I realize he was an inconsiderate dick.
Think about it: The people interviewed in sex robot stories are never surprised to find themselves besotted with an inanimate object.
Tomorrow's front page: Besotted Prince Harry wraps an arm around girlfriend Meghan Markle on romantic holiday for her 36th birthday pic.twitter.
Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie were among those who vied for her affections, but few were as besotted as John Lennon.
Although the source says the couple is taking the relationship slowly, Harry is said to be "besotted" with the brunette beauty.
Such a battle of perspectives was particularly popular in the Freud-besotted plays of the first half of the 20th century.
So it's funny that we find ourselves 30 years later in a world that's more besotted by caped crusaders than ever.
Naturally, Elton John is besotted, and they have the cosign of France's reigning sovereign of leftfield pop, Christine and the Queens.
" Gilmour's mother, Lois, told PEOPLE at the time, "They are clearly besotted with each other, and it's a wonderful thing to see.
He's taking the trip for the adventure, and because he is besotted with his girlfriend: —How do you know that's east, Sawyer?
Professional detractors like Howard Zinn resent the idea of advancing liberty since for them the West is besotted with slavery and exploitation.
Maybe you want to see Sansa Stark break the dragon-glass ceiling, completing her journey from fairytale-besotted naïf to commanding queen.
Not everyone in New York is besotted with him, a reality reflected in the composition of those seated on the inaugural platform.
Maybe the tabloid, which is besotted with Meghan Markle, thinks it has locked onto the closest thing Americans have to a princess.
It provided a good presentation of Frankenthaler's development in a grand setting that enhanced the aura of the already color-besotted paintings.
They all assume that Eve is Martin's besotted hook-up and are annoyed that she brought a mere "hook-up" lady to brunch.
Not so long ago, the prospect of George Clooney being a besotted husband — much less a dad to newborn twins — seemed fairly unlikely.
The turtlenecked youth of Paris are absolutely besotted with Jean-Paul Sartre, or Simone de Beauvoir, sometimes both, and the pair partake freely.
Distraught protagonist Sweety, played by actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, explains to her besotted male admirer that she is in love with another woman.
In a long, besotted email, Cameron Crowe remembered editing Ms. King's scenes toward the end of "Jerry Maguire" with tears in his eyes.
Ask Buttigieg-besotted voters whether his youth gives them pause and they'll say that extra seasoning sure didn't improve the taste of Trump.
Catherine made a rookie's mistake: She fell in love with her husband even though he was besotted with another woman (Diane de Poitiers).
And, if that's the case, there's a good chance you were as besotted as we were with Belle's buttercup-colored, off-the-shoulder gown.
For years, parents have been questioning how princess culture might influence little girls, particularly those who seem besotted with their images and their stories.
And the community he was about to devastate was not some foreign place — not some stereotypical city of rednecks, snowbirds and Disney-besotted hordes.
This view reflects the current scholarly consensus, but much of American popular culture, like much of American politics, remains besotted by the old mythology.
He might find it in his power, and in his heart, to bring fantasy-besotted old Quichotte face to face with his lady love.
Our wife-besotted engineer and architect has no idea that a quick escape for a brief rendezvous with his beloved is a fatal error.
Royal baby superfans are beside themselves, and London's tourism industry is ready to cater to travelers besotted by the Duchess of Sussex and infant.
At the top of the list for its television series is, no surprise, the supernatural, '80s-besotted series "Stranger Things," with 64 million plays.
The spas draw skiers and nonskiers alike to spend days soaking in hot tubs, besotted by the view of these commanding, ice-shrouded peaks.
Russia's presence in ISIS-besotted Syria means Putin's military combined with U.S. forces could help deal a death blow to ISIS once and for all.
She came to be seen, in Ms Lal's words, as "a gold-digger and schemer", the "besotted" Jahangir as a "drunk, stoned and oversexed despot".
In a country newly rich and besotted by Western luxury goods, the sport has become a paradigm of sorts for embracing and importing foreign commodities.
He was said to have founded the Pony Express (he didn't); he may or may not have had an affair with the besotted Libbie Custer.
By the time they're shown thrashing around, shots cutting between a club and industrial railings, it's nothing short of a besotted homage to the subculture.
Show Us Your Wall Growing up in southern Indiana, Benjamin W. Bradley was somewhat isolated and, as a teenager, besotted with Christmas and its trappings.
Sullivan appears as a prophet without much honor in his own country, denied the celebrity and the lucrative commissions enjoyed by the Europe-besotted Burnham.
"A straight line is perfection," he tells Chris (Kathryn Hahn), a frustrated filmmaker who is new in town and newly besotted with Dick's pretentious buckaroo machismo.
Analyze it, situate it in a historical context, dissect and reassemble it before our eyes to make us see it — and our tech-besotted culture — anew.
He might not have imagined the money-besotted spectacle of the World Cup, but he surely knew better than anyone that all the world's a stage.
Young spectators, especially, seemed as besotted with Bottom (Ian Gould, the cast's standout charmer) as Titania (Amy Hutchins) is before Oberon restores her to her senses.
Baldwin was seen looking absolutely besotted (and chic as usual) in the Christy as recently as last week when out at The Grove with boo Justin.
Harry (Alan Rickman), the head of a nonprofit organization, is besotted with his secretary, Mia (Heike Makatsh), who makes no secret of her attraction to him.
Only three classics: the besotted "Alien Girl," the merely sexed-up "P&P 1.5," and "Average Joe," a position paper for the gangsta realism to follow.
But she was besotted and became determined to sell it in the United States, even if she had to open her own gallery to do so.
His words set off giggles from his besotted fans, whose rooting interest this week may be with the International team but whose hearts are clearly elsewhere.
But exit polls showed that half of the voters in this formerly Trump-besotted state were now saying that their impressions of the president were negative.
A Star Is Born keeps being remade because Hollywood is besotted with the mechanics of stardom, refracted here through a lens of male power and female submissiveness.
The novel and the satire were born at the same time in this series of misadventures befalling the romance-besotted mad knight errant and his sane sidekick.
He is likened at one point to Raymond Chandler, another writer who explored the hidden, unglamorous corners of a city too often besotted by its own hype.
The reason why we're so besotted with the bloke is simple: he's spent the last two decades making some of the most original dance music ever produced.
The movie came out at the end of 1989, won four Oscars (best picture, actress, adapted screenplay, makeup), got besotted reviews and made a pile of money.
As the bickering-but-besotted pair Gabby and Travis in "The Choice," Teresa Palmer and Benjamin Walker struggle to achieve not just chemistry but a single sincere moment.
Given the title of this Marc Meyers film, we expect a revelation of Travis's besotted soul, but if we learn about anyone, it's Ellen's husband, Henry (Mr. Blum).
Which means that the marriage and the raising of children have been about food — although his wife points out that he is also besotted by their cocker spaniels.
Fans of Latin American architecture are overly besotted with the modernist era: Luis Barragán's color-saturated houses in Mexico City, Oscar Niemeyer's cutting-edge presidential palace in Brasília.
People hated Sansa in the early days — dimwittedly so, generally, given that she was by design besotted with the medieval fantasy tropes that the show aimed to shatter.
Conservatives across the Western world became so besotted with the power of the market that they forgot what capitalism is like when it's not balanced by strong communities.
Any point on the globe where a famous writer has paused to pick up a pen has heated the imagination — and changed the travel plans — of besotted fans.
Westerners besotted by the "rising China" hypothesis often make the case that while the country's human-rights record is lamentable, it has no bearing on its economic future.
In Kristiania, as Oslo was then known, a radical bohemian scene besotted with Nietzsche cultivated Munch's precocious genius, but its advocacy of free love ill-served his sanity.
It's a lyrical stylization that comes down somewhere between the speed-besotted art of the Futurists, who had published their manifesto seven years earlier, and Art Deco advertising design.
IN SILICON VALLEY people are besotted by the latest thing, which is why techies rarely give a thought to PayPal, a digital-payments firm that turns 22017 this month.
Upon hitting the wall with Grant in a besotted argument, I'd vent my furious frustration by storming into my car, slamming it into reverse and out onto the street.
This year, he replaced David Granger, the deeply respected (if not exactly fashion-besotted) editor who amassed 17 National Magazine Awards during his 19 years at the Esquire helm.
Trump, whose political history prior to winning the presidency included a lot of speeches and television appearances but no actual governance, seems particularly besotted by this vision of politics.
GALERIE G. SARTI Like so many painters in Rome in the early 17th century, the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera was besotted with Caravaggio's lifelike modeling and dramatic chiaroscuro.
At the time, I was so besotted by the romantic, five-star version of India that my fiancé had shown me that we considered returning there for our wedding.
When Perkins, a besotted soccer fan, moved to Asbury Park in 2013, he wondered on Twitter where the actual Park was so that he might find a pickup game.
Avid readers of THUMP UK will know by now that apart from DJ Harvey, the selector we're probably most obsessed with and besotted by is Sound Pellegrino man Teki Latex.
In biographies of Trump, including my own, "The Truth About Trump," one is introduced to a man raised by an imperious father and a mother besotted by the British royals.
When we spend time with her, she is always with her new partner (a woman she is completely besotted with, who is supposedly engaged to someone else and practices polyamory).
A subplot involves Antonina's precarious balancing act as she charms the besotted Lutz, and resists surrendering to his increasingly aggressive moves as her jealous husband watches nervously from a distance.
Out there, not too far away from you right now, are human beings—actual human beings who sleep, shit, and play badminton, just like you—besotted with Crazy Frog, in 2016.
For Mummy, in the traditional way, handled all her property and tax affairs, including the negotiations with besotted producers over how many lakh of rupees she would get for every film.
Alberto Sordi plays Giovanni, a building contractor with big ideas and a lavish lifestyle that's mostly enjoyed by his wife, Silvia (Gianna Maria Canale), with whom he is quite properly besotted.
Emma Thompson is his sister and Alan Rickman her husband, besotted by his secretary; Liam Neeson is a widowed stepfather; and Colin Firth is a writer cuckolded by his own brother.
He's clearly willing to let her move their relationship at the pace she's most comfortable with, which is surprising to absolutely no one who saw how besotted he was throughout Season 23.
Although denounced as "a shyster and scoundrel" who stole horses and rigs from trusting men and absconded with cash and jewelry from besotted women, George was installed as Emma's manager and agent.
Indiana's reviews swing wildly between incisive criticism, pastiche, and self-besotted, self-obsessed, auto narrative: something perfectly appropriate for his brilliant fiction, but practically useless for non-fan-boy theoretical application today.
I crash past a clan of red-faced white people sitting on the ground, as if besotted by emotion, and head to the long courtyard between the infamous Blocks Ten and 11.
In June, Brent Goldfarb assessed the company's prospects: Silicon Valley investors love to talk about "disruption" — they are besotted with the storyline of small, scrappy, high-tech underdogs upending boring "legacy" corporations.
Think of it as the first of Pinter's many theatrical alarm calls: a cry for help from a writer besotted with language who also knew the forbidding terrain that exists beyond words.
Quickly besotted with the area, Mr. D'Orville soon traded up within his prewar building, buying a two-bedroom, two-bath unit, with granite counters and original mahogany columns, for $910,423 in 2006.
Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — As we contemplate crime and punishment in the Trump circle, it should be noted that our Russia-besotted president does share some traits with Dostoyevsky's spiraling protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov.
Emma Thompson is his earnest sister and Alan Rickman her husband, besotted by his secretary; Liam Neeson is a widowed stepfather; and Colin Firth is a writer cuckolded by his own brother.
Opinion Columnist I became a besotted baseball fan at the age of 6, watching the Boston Red Sox, my mother's ancestral team, march to the World Series against the New York Mets.
"In Jackson's simplified, sweetened, and CGI-besotted telling, 'The Lovely Bones' is a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens," said Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum.
Though she's now besotted with the character — "I really, really love Diana, I love everything about her," she shared — it was the opportunity to play a powerful female that first appealed to her.
As the story goes, she moved from New Haven, Connecticut to San Jose, California, where, besotted by grief, she took on a massive renovation project that would consume the remainder of her days.
A hyper-effusive, Broadway-besotted stage director with stereotypical gay mannerisms and delusions of artistic grandeur, he was in charge of a tacky community theater pageant in Blaine, Mo., celebrating the town's sesquicentennial.
Or will Paige, now as besotted with Soviet ideology as she once was with Jesus, swallow some assignment from Claudia as willingly as she did those gluey Russian stews, and betray her parents?
At night, her parents took her to the Chicago nightclub Chez Paris, where she became besotted with show business while taking in performances by Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante, Carmen Miranda and Mae West.
Mr. Trump frightens Europeans not because of his willingness to build walls (Europe is ahead of him on this front), and not because Europeans are besotted with globalization (many of them hate it).
All of the centuries when borders from India to Africa, from the Middle East to British Columbia, were drawn by besotted and bewigged Englishmen may end with the whimpering last gasps of Brexit.
In those days, Mr. Geffen was besotted with show business and the idea of escaping to the Technicolor world of blue skies, beaches and gaudy homes he had seen in Hollywood depictions of California.
Progressives were so besotted with their own educated-class expertise that they concentrated power upward and away from the people at the same time that technology was pushing power downward and toward the people.
The high spin rate is ideal for the modern game, Yandell said, because when hit well, a slice backhand can provide a crucial level of control and surprise in a game besotted with power.
Sax sets many of his scenes in Toronto (his board-game-besotted hometown), in Britain and in Italy, where he makes a convincing case that a vigorous and amorous fight for analog is afoot.
In prints, Segers was both a master technician and a visionary, besotted with color, fascinated by the textures possible with both the etching needle and other processes like the sugar lift, which he invented.
Yet, as "The Unicorn" begins, their inability to pull the marriage trigger is presented as a mystery, especially to Malory's sexually outré parents, who remain so mutually besotted they renew their vows every year.
While Republican politicians are myopically besotted with pleasing their donor class, a new generation of conservative policy wonks has been coming up with dozens of ways to help the workers and the middle class.
In Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel, "The Triumph of Death," a Wagner-besotted nobleman tries to persuade his beloved to undergo a Liebestod , and, failing to do so, hurls her and himself over a cliff.
Paying tribute to Méliès' romantic adventure style, the silent film, dubbed Back to the Moon, follows a lovelorn illusionist, besotted with a bold queen of hearts, who is kidnapped by a evil dude, of course.
To the 1,000-odd visitors, most of them supporters of the anti-establishment Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Mrs Merkel epitomised all that is rotten in Europe: out of touch, elitist and besotted with immigrants.
" The source said the relationship seems different to Styles' past relationships (we wonder which ones they're referring to!), adding that: "Harry genuinely is besotted with Tess and doesn't want to risk messing this one up.
T-shirts featuring Mr. Hell's spiky-haired visage are ubiquitous in fashion circles; the contemporary art world seems similarly besotted, with a who's who — from Nicole Eisenman to Christopher Wool — invoking him in their work.
Mr. Devine plays Noah, a slightly schlubby but good-hearted fellow besotted with Ms. Daddario's Avery, with whom he's been platonic friends for three frustrating years, despite their "clicking" in certain ways when they met.
Somehow, they must appeal to their Trump-besotted activist base without alienating the broader population of less partisan suburban voters and a growing minority population that has recoiled from the president's policies and divisive messaging.
So the new reader coming to it must ask not if it works but how its mechanism runs — and, perhaps, whether it will run well for a generation of impatient, fantasy-besotted young American readers.
While that was happening, though, Rand Paul was taking a very different tack in the Senate — running interference for our Putin-besotted president, and defending his weird Russia diplomacy as the best alternative to war.
If so, please enjoy this abridged look at five previous "spares" from Prince Harry's family tree, whose own royal nuptials illuminate a rich tapestry of spectacle and fascination for the betrothed participants and besotted public.
The besotted ants in turn defend their green udder against potentially destructive insect predators; clean away pathogenic fungi and bacteria; fertilize the soil with their nitrogenous waste; and spread the cactus's seed to new sites.
That he cares deeply about health and sustainable agriculture, and still manages to create rich, novel dishes that go far beyond the usual coconut-besotted, excessively salty, fried or jerk-saturated staples, adds to Vital's appeal.
Thorpe was besotted with a 19-year-old stableboy named Norman Josiffe, whom he cleaned up and kept in a long-term clandestine relationship that suited him but asked too much of his mentally fragile paramour.
This new series stretches the episodes to a half-hour and gives her a family: a hypochondriac mother (Angela Kinsey), a sensible sister (Francesca Reale) and a besotted neighbor (Erik Stocklin) who lets Miranda indenture him.
Whether her lover-cum-killer will be the besotted banker (Theo James), the cretinous criminal (an odiously mouth-breathing Jim Sturgess), or Samson himself is a riddle we could not possibly be less interested in solving.
The few extra characters he adds to the lineup pass muster, from MacAuslon to an imperious bank manager; a beguiling, bright-eyed Scottish photographer; and an old Eton chum, Monty, who is besotted with Florence Craye.
I had fallen hard for Paris, and Notre-Dame, the heart of the city I'd become besotted with, offered hope that — even if I was from Connecticut — maybe one day I, too, could become a Parisian.
The idiotic hierarchy that our deliriously wealth-besotted media imposes where this sort of thing is concerned—a millionaire is a successful person, whereas a billionaire is a very successful person—is something worse than unhelpful.
One character torments his besotted lover; another installs a blow-up doll with his girlfriend's clothes in his college apartment; another spanks, and worse, his secretary, then runs for office (this story became the film "Secretary").
On Tuesday evening, Trump will appear before a besotted Florida crowd, seeking to once again electrify his base with politically incorrect bombast as he embarks on an apparently narrow but credible path back to the White House.
To the 1,000-odd visitors in attendance, most of them supporters of the anti-establishment Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Mrs Merkel epitomised everything that is rotten in Europe: out of touch, elitist and besotted with immigrants.
In those years, Americans were absolutely besotted with plant-based eating, both as a way to signal they cared about the earth and its animals and as a way to say they cared about their own health.
This was how, at 25, Das came to run a school for spies, training agents to work along the India-Tibet border, growing so besotted with Tibet himself that he made two surreptitious journeys to the kingdom.
At the time, it didn't fly: critics, besotted by the swagger of Britpop, either trashed or straight-up ignored it, Creation Records dropped them a week after release, and it would be their last for 22 years.
He pointed out that after the historic meeting between Mr. Kim and Mr. Moon in the border village of Panmunjom last month, South Koreans were "besotted" with Mr. Kim and would be reluctant to impose harsher sanctions.
In their showstopping number, "(You're) Timeless to Me," Mr. Latessa looked besotted as he wrapped his arms tightly around Mr. Fierstein's considerable waist and sang: You're like a stinky old cheese, babe,Just gettin' riper with age.
While excavating the Great Processional Way — also known as Al-Kabbash Road, which connects the famous Luxor and Karnak temples — construction workers found the new sphinx upside-down and besotted with a dusty mixture of mud and sand.
The European avant-gardes of the mid-1950s were besotted with Zen Buddhism, and Paik, who filled notebooks with gleanings from Asian philosophy, began writing compositions and staging performances that could be meditative, paradoxical or just plain weird.
The setting and themes will be immediately familiar to anyone once besotted with that decade's master pop storytellers, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King — a cohort that clearly includes the series creators, the twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer.
It could only have been a relief, in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, to retreat into the violent, intricate, power-besotted world of "Game of Thrones," which wrapped up its season on Sunday.
At first glance, this is the female gaze all over: great sex with a besotted partner whose heart has always been yours, and whose abs are still so chiseled you can tell he's a smuggler on the side.
Fisher, an unpretentious Philadelphian whose younger daughter, Amy (Emma Orelove), is inexplicably besotted with Aubrey (Ian Gould) — believing his lie that he is a bigwig at the Pennsylvania Railroad, rather than a mere clerk making $32.50 a week.
Hardy, as besotted with Gertie as Dickens once was with the actress Ellen Ternan, plans to travel to the capital for her triumph, even though, as Florence reminds him, he wouldn't make the trip for her own recent surgery.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bronx Bombers lived up to their nickname just in time on Friday, putting together the pieces of their previously malfunctioning offense in front of a besotted hometown crowd to defeat the Houston Astros 4-1.
Barry is pulled in one direction by Monroe Fuches, a facile blowhard who books Barry's hits and works every angle to keep him killing, and by NoHo Hank, a timid, malaprop-prone Chechen mobster besotted with Barry's lethal skills.
And when The Old Man & the Gun puts Tucker up against Hunt — a younger, law-abiding man who isn't quite as besotted with the rogue's failure to face consequences as everyone else — the film's generational contrast comes into focus.
By this account, Chinese firms are the latest to get the love bug, with China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, in the role of the besotted tycoon, having paid a blockbuster $4bn to assemble a chain of mature American cinemas since 214.
As 2018 comes to a close—a "low dishonest" time, as Auden said of the 1930s—that high-flying, hardly working, nap-besotted, righteous Facebook has given way to one known for secrecy and collaboration with disinformation campaigns and computational propaganda.
As a colleague, Tania Franco, and I wandered around Manaus before the game, and later as we walked through the stands, the sense was that this nation's enraptured, besotted relationship with soccer had finally lapped over onto the women's side.
So besotted with the idea is Wright — out of school and often on the run with his mother — that one day he sneaks into a public school, just to sit in for two happy hours on an ordinary English class.
A pivotal development, in the life of both the club and Roberts, was the membership of Dwight Eisenhower, who, at Roberts's behest, first vacationed there with Mamie in 1948 and was thereafter besotted with the place, despite a rickety golf game.
"I had never seen Mike as besotted with any woman as he was with Elizabeth," writes Anne, 98, in Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood, which she co-wrote with her 100-year-old actor husband.
For Shakespeare's besotted young lovers Claudio and Hero, substitute Claude (Bryan Fenkart), another Quarto, and the top model Higgy (Ariana Venturi), whose father, Leo Messina (Stephen DeRosa), owns the Hotel Messina (get it?), around which much of the action swings and swirls.
Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas: The World of Captain Beefheart (KFR) Although avant-guitarist Lucas accompanied and eventually managed Don Van Vliet during his mercurial 1978-1982 second coming, to reimagine him with post-soul artiste Hendryx he leans on Beefheart's blues-besotted youth.
I should hit pause for a moment and explain that Powhida's exhibition, which takes up half of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's second floor, is a meta-besotted extravaganza of image and text, mostly text, purporting to take place in the year 2050.
Though the 2016 race was besotted with gender bias, it's a mistake to conclude that Americans will not vote for a woman over Donald Trump, because what happened in 2016 was that a majority of Americans voted for a woman over Donald Trump.
Right-o. The moment a character in a British novel craves country life, gleeful readers know what to expect: the doddering, besotted aristocrats; the grand old manor decaying; the local folk toothless perverts; even the animals not pleasingly pastoral but randy and repulsive.
Olivia remembers a jealous seizure of her own, long ago in her teens — how she was besotted with her sister's bridegroom and dared to touch his cap, the part of it that warmed his hair and made her wish she could die.
The story Mr. Ross has come up with suggests that he wants to say something about desire and jealousy, but he hasn't given Frank enough of an inner life to make the character's transformation from a besotted lover into a distrustful one plausible.
For the crowd, besotted with the story of the mother of one-year-old twins who only made her comeback in May but two weeks ago suffered concussion, whiplash and an injury to her throwing hand in car crash, it was a real anti-climax.
Durant was matter-of-fact when asked about leaving a besotted Oklahoma City fan base just a few weeks after the Thunder had come tantalizingly close to advancing to the N.B.A. finals, only to lose a three-games-to-one lead to the Warriors.
For instance, at one point, Schreck rhapsodizes on the power of the Ninth Amendment, a moment that delighted me; when I was 15, I studied the Bill of Rights for Academic Decathlon and wound up besotted with this specific amendment, just as Schreck was then.
I'd become besotted with the idea of Buffett's cult following when I first listened to his music on my own volition in the depths of last winter—the idea that a song about a town named after a cocktail could inspire its own fermented philosophy.
Even though Herbert was married by the time of the German occupation, he was besotted with my mother, and when he and his wife, Gerta, arrived in Terezín, two days after we did, he began to visit us in the attic almost every day.
Ferdinand, a young major besotted with a musician's daughter but promised to an aristocrat, has steeped long enough in the cruelty of his father — the country's grasping president, and the first councilor to its ruling duke — that he's picked up a trick or two.
Can a generation raised on "Glee" and the "High School Musical" franchise and besotted by newfangled stage musicals like "Book of Mormon" and "Hamilton" find room in its heart for a movie that unabashedly evokes "The Young Girls of Rochefort" and "An American in Paris"?
A subplot follows the romantic misadventures of a history professor (Fabrice Luchini) who becomes so besotted with a beautiful student (Mélanie Laurent) that he sends her anonymous text messages, some in cyberspeak ("I'm 2 hot 4 U") and others quoting the love poetry of Baudelaire.
This savage yet spineless severance reminds us, as Martin Scorsese did in The Age of Innocence, in which a cunning pregnancy announcement ends a man's besotted pursuit of his wife's cousin, that there is no act more violent than a lovelorn heart being torn asunder.
Food is food, and vegans are so excited and besotted with food—partly, of course, as it's harder to source—that if you show a vegan a new chocolate bar, they'll start freaking out and bulk buying and sending pictures of it to their vegan friends.
A 2016 report painted a sordid and sensational portrait of the personal relationship involving the inmates — David Sweat and Richard Matt — and a besotted prison worker, Joyce Mitchell, who helped the two men break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., near the Canadian border.
"If one needed final proof of just how irresponsibly the Brexit campaigners have behaved, besotted with themselves, leading their country into chaos and one of the worst crises of its modern history, then here it is," wrote the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung after Mr. Farage announced his departure.
Once the darling of the tabloid press, fashion role model, devoted mother, saintly visitor to the Aids ward, innocent victim of an arrogant husband besotted with his ageing, plain (the worst sin of all, given a bride the world found desirable), married mistress, she has now been recast.
Now many of those same geniuses have decided that it's now too late to persuade voters not to vote for Trump, that they're beyond the reach of reason, and that any attempt to talk them out of their fascination will just make them angrier and more Trump-besotted.
That seductiveness is exerted on characters as diverse as his earthy wife; his Desdemona-besotted stooge, the wealthy Venetian, Roderigo (a perfectly fatuous Matthew Maher); and the young soldier Cassio (a radiantly open-faced Finn Wittrock), the central pawn in Iago's scheme to convince Othello of his wife's infidelity.
Designed by Norman Foster, an architect besotted with flight, the building is often likened to a spaceship—an impression reinforced by the fact that its foundations are decoupled from Earth's crust by a system of 700 steel disks which allows it to move back and forth during an earthquake.
Connecting the author's observations of figures as distant from one another as Gene Autry and Rihanna are his reminiscences of a music-besotted childhood in Phillipsburg, N.J., his years in Greenwich Village as a scholar in training and his more recent days as a Spotify-subscribing music dad.
Opinion Columnist Because I live in Northern California, where this sort of thing is required by local ordinance, I spent New Year's Day at a meditation center, surrounded by hundreds of wealthy, well-meaning, Patagonia-clad white people seeking to restore order and balance to their tech-besotted lives.
Hampton Court Palace, where the Tudor king, Henry, broke off ties with the papacy in 1530 over efforts to have his first marriage annulled and marry his mistress — with whom he was besotted and whom he later beheaded — on Tuesday held its first Roman Catholic service in more than 450 years.
We, Africa's besotted young, hang on to every word when he speaks, we applaud like puppies at the World Economic Forum when he schools Africa's weakling leaders on how to lead, we host conferences and seminars in and out of his country that break down his vision into repeatable models.
Venus, eager for her son to find a safe haven there, sends Cupid to make Dido fall in love with Aeneas in Book I, and throughout Books II and III the queen grows ever more besotted with her guest, who holds her court spellbound with tales of his sufferings and adventures.
This fall, after cutting away tens of thousands of the locks, whose sheer weight engineers say could damage the bridge, the New York City Transportation Department began a deterrence campaign to keep the besotted from further festooning: A $100 fine is to be assessed for the illicit act of adoration.
For these Trump-besotted believers, you get the sense that the Bush administration's attempts to devise a substantial socially conservative agenda, from bioethics to marriage promotion to faith-based initiatives and more, are remembered not for being timorous, limited or flawed (all of which they were) but for being simply boring.
What I found was more fascinating than anything I could have imagined: not just an urban plan, but a vision for a different way of living in the 21st century, one that steps back from many of the mistakes of the auto-besotted 20th century, refocusing on health and community.
"It is impossible to search tens of thousands of people who want to come and line the streets, any one of which could be a potential terrorist; someone who's besotted with the royal family - and there are a number of those; or just an attention-seeker," he told Reuters earlier this month.
Kah-Lo's saucy vocal signature is as calculated an invention as the besotted pitch corrections of Rayce or Mr Eazi, but her presumption of innocence is as old as rock and roll, manifesting in an evolved schoolyard chant that needs a fake ID to get loose with the Henney and the Coke.
" Mozley has cited Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" as a favorite novel, and though she doesn't try to sustain McCarthy's sonorous tone — a disastrous temptation to which some writers succumb — she occasionally channels his nature-besotted intensity: "The dawn erupted from a bud of mauve half-light and bloomed bloody as I woke.
Pierre knew that Morton Plant, in his sixties, was quite besotted by his much younger second wife and would make it his mission to ensure that whatever Maisie wanted she should have (much to the dismay of his grown-up children, who had their suspicions that their new stepmother was a gold-digger).
The rags-to-riches plot is an intentionally improbable picaresque featuring all the glorious elements of great operas of the era: love at first sight, disguise, intrigue, grief, betrayal, secrets, scheming aristocrats, a besotted tenor, dramatic escapes, grand settings, fabulous costumes, murder, fallen women, sacrifice — the follies of humans at the mercy of Fate.
A similar degree of devotion can be inspired by Sichuanese cuisine, which lands on the unsuspecting tongue like the kiss of a fierce lover; you might have conceived of the encounter as a forgettable fling, but it leaves you gasping for air—in thrall to its numbing, tingling fervor and possibly besotted for life.
But before you do that, the Museum of the Moving Image is showcasing a weekend of Carpenter favorites, including the Stephen King adaptation "Christine" (screening on Saturday), with a twitchy Keith Gordon as a car-besotted teenager, and the underrated "In the Mouth of Madness" (on Sunday), starring Sam Neill as a King-like author.
Bret: There's a side of me that thinks that Trump is a natural culmination for a country that has spent the past 60 years besotted with television, the past 50 with moral relativism, the past 40 with ostentation, the past 30 with the politics of sex, and the past 20 with the politics of fear.
Back in May, the Daily Mail highlighted the fact that the comedian had become besotted with a certain black, floral-printed, short-sleeved mini dress, wearing it on her May 26 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, as well as to a Masters of Sex panel on May 16, and the Love & Friendship premiere on May 3.
And vocal parts for a climactic number sung by the lead actors Vondie Curtis Hall and Ato Blankson-Wood — who play a father-and-son musical team riven both by the era's political ferment and the arrival of a blues-besotted white British music producer (David Cale) — were conjured aloud, mouth to ear, on the spot.
The individuals she selects to populate her stories are a disparate crew: a middle-aged film-­location scout besotted by a young, fame-hungry Mexican woman; a high school girl befriending a lonely blind man; a government agent involved in unethical diplomatic dealings; a bitter woman whose actor husband has left her for a younger co-star.
I was born and raised in New Delhi, and my family so besotted with movies that our modest flat boasted three televisions, which lowered the odds of World War III breaking out between those who chose the news broadcast over the 1955 black-and-white Devdas, or the primary colored Hindi musicals of the 1980s, or Wimbledon.
Anders Walter's "I Kill Giants," based on a comic-book series by Joe Kelly, explores the turbulent inner life of a bullied adolescent girl; Bruce McDonald's "Weirdos," set in 6773, follows the odyssey of a hitchhiking, Warhol-besotted 15-year-old and his girlfriend; and "Polina," by Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj, focuses on a driven Russian dancer.
Anders Walter's "I Kill Giants," based on a comic-book series by Joe Kelly, explores the turbulent inner life of a bullied adolescent girl; Bruce McDonald's "Weirdos," set in 2119, follows the odyssey of a hitchhiking, Warhol-besotted 216-year-old and his girlfriend; and "Polina," by Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj, focuses on a driven Russian dancer.
"It is a poor reflection on our own royalty-besotted historians that they have produced no definitive biography of this champion of free speech who inspired Voltaire, influenced the first 10 amendments to the American Constitution and made an Englishman's home his castle," the civil-liberties lawyer and historian Geoffrey Robertson wrote in The Times of London.
A theme set like this one is tough to pull together without having an odd man out, so we have two, two-word phrases and one single word: 27A: QUINQUAGENARIAN 278A: SHAQ ATTAQ 215A: QUEBEC NORDIQUES Most solvers won't even notice that, to be honest, and I was so besotted with the word QUINQUAGENARIAN that I decided to give it a pass.
By completely omitting something terribly obvious — that the original fortune was made on the backs of slaves — the play suggests that the real evildoers were not the kindly young men from Bavaria who sold cloth and simply saw expanding opportunities but the 21st-century financiers who ignited an economic crash, besotted by the idea of bundling subprime mortgages into tranches.
His reporting on the plan, its implementation, and its possible future was eye-opening: What I found was more fascinating than anything I could have imagined: not just an urban plan, but a vision for a different way of living in the 21st century, one that steps back from many of the mistakes of the auto-besotted 20th century, refocusing on health and community.
In contrast, former Republican president candidate and current Senate candidate Mitt Romney shared a blog post on his campaign website on Saturday titled, "As I See It: Race and Equality," in which he denounced Unite the Right 2 rallygoers and the alt-right (alongside Trump's "both sides" rhetoric), adding: There are some besotted and misguided souls who long for a population that is more homogeneous — more white.
By contrast, his more Surrealistic work, which features animal/human hybrids and other anomalies, falls neatly in line with the Freud-besotted imaginings of Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, and others, thereby embedding itself within a stylistically consistent context, no matter how hard a painting like "Le réveil du Carpophage" ("The Awakening of the Carpophage," 1930), with its musclebound nude male back and startled tiger's head, is to look at.
In Brazil, the game was introduced by Charles William Miller, the São Paulo-born son of a Scottish railway engineer, who went to school in England and returned in the eighteen-nineties with a pair of leather balls and a copy of the rules from the Hampshire branch of the F.A. (His legacy as the man who brought soccer to perhaps the most besotted of all soccer nations endures in a cross-legged maneuver known as the chaleira .) Even countries with their own footballing traditions embraced the new, codified sport.

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