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- noun Plural form of
trance .
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Examples
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In sum, he has so far been an oddly passive figure, “wafted by a favoring gale/As one sometimes is in trances”, an actor who has mastered the lines given to him instead of the auteur of his own Presidency.
Elections 2006/2008 2009
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In sum, he has so far been an oddly passive figure, “wafted by a favoring gale/As one sometimes is in trances”, an actor who has mastered the lines given to him instead of the auteur of his own Presidency.
Stromata Blog: 2008
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In sum, he has so far been an oddly passive figure, “wafted by a favoring gale/As one sometimes is in trances”, an actor who has mastered the lines given to him instead of the auteur of his own Presidency.
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It's sometimes called Charismatic Christianity, and often involves a belief in trances, visions, and dreams.
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It's sometimes called Charismatic Christianity, and often involves a belief in trances, visions, and dreams.
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My Uncle Bill related the story of "the Wry-mouth Family," with such twists and contortions and killing extremes of the ludicrous as perfectly overcame even the minister; and he was to be seen, at one period of the evening, with a face purple with laughter, and the tears actually rolling down over his well-formed cheeks, while some of the more excitable young people almost fell in trances, and rolled on the floor in the extreme of their merriment.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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The only thing that can break them out of their trances is a frag grenade.
unknown title 2009
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For still, in those days of his which are "trances," and in those "nightly dreams" which are all he lives for, he is with her; with her still, with her always;
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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She suffered from "trances" or "dreaming" spells, in which she would lose consciousness for several minutes or longer, and be unaware when she recovered that time had passed.
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Fincher gets the details right - the energy drinks, the alcohol, the programmers with their headphones deep in their anti-social trances - and he captures Harvard's oak-and-crimson ambience.
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