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Definition of Svengali in English: Svengalinoun svɛnˈɡɑːli A person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose. Example sentencesExamples - Nothing like a one-hit wonder band composed of former members of the ‘Mickey Mouse Club’, organized by a team of music industry Svengalis to spell true love.
- Music Svengalis litter the music industry, but there's only one Anthony H Wilson.
- Of course, this also contributes to the disposability of idols: they become indistinguishable from one another, and they are rarely talented enough to survive without their Svengalis pulling their strings.
- Hypnosis is not a sinister tool for Svengalis but a ‘gentle, effective and empowering therapy’.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber was the Svengali who held the musical theatre stage in thrall.
- That's our axe to grind: to prove that we are our own Svengalis.
- Crossover soul was the vision of Motown's founder - Svengali Berry Gordy.
- They had better songs but more importantly they covered a broader age range, exhibiting a shrewdness lost on later generations of Svengalis.
- But the Svengali rolled his dice with Lohan's current popularity and lost miserably.
- So he's not the Svengali of myth who convinced a generation of kids that fame is a basic human right, regardless of ability?
- Ronnie was well known as my Svengali, but I admitted nothing about his role.
- Eisenhower's ‘Madison Avenue’ consultant, Rosser Reeves, of the agency BBD&O, won renown that year as a campaign Svengali.
- The worst of it's that he's only 20 months old and the Svengali who has done this to him is his own grandfather.
- Brandt - in the style of Svengalis throughout the ages - took a vulnerable young man and promised to make him a star.
- Grover grew up in London's East End, where he served time as an armed robber, a hairdresser, a boxer and a self-help Svengali - so he has a hinterland of experiences to draw on.
- He adhered to famously beautiful women, as lover or court poet or Svengali, or all three.
- Acting as Svengali, manager and father figure, Tsunku's influence over the group is apparent at every level.
- Smug, self-satisfied and more than a little bit weird, it's difficult to tell if Gest is indeed well-meaning or some kind of queer Svengali.
- Was Sam Phillips a Svengali, a super salesman, or a shaman?
- Karl Rove, Bush's political Svengali, has told the party that security will be a Republican issue in this year's mid-term elections.
Origin Early 20th century: the name of a musician in George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894), who controls Trilby's stage singing hypnotically. trilby from late 19th century: Trilby was the heroine of George du Maurier's novel Trilby, published in 1894. In the stage version the Trilby character wore a soft felt hat with a narrow brim and indented crown, which was immediately dubbed a trilby. Trilby falls under the influence of a musician called Svengali, who trains her voice by hypnotizing her and makes her into a famous singer, although she had been tone-deaf before meeting him. A person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another is consequently sometimes called a Svengali.
Rhymes Bali, barley, Cali, Carly, Charlie, Dali, Diwali, finale, gnarly, Gurkhali, Kali, Kigali, Mali, Marley, marly, Pali, parley, snarly, Somali, tamale Definition of Svengali in US English: Svengalinoun A person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose. Example sentencesExamples - So he's not the Svengali of myth who convinced a generation of kids that fame is a basic human right, regardless of ability?
- Acting as Svengali, manager and father figure, Tsunku's influence over the group is apparent at every level.
- He adhered to famously beautiful women, as lover or court poet or Svengali, or all three.
- Brandt - in the style of Svengalis throughout the ages - took a vulnerable young man and promised to make him a star.
- Crossover soul was the vision of Motown's founder - Svengali Berry Gordy.
- Of course, this also contributes to the disposability of idols: they become indistinguishable from one another, and they are rarely talented enough to survive without their Svengalis pulling their strings.
- Ronnie was well known as my Svengali, but I admitted nothing about his role.
- Karl Rove, Bush's political Svengali, has told the party that security will be a Republican issue in this year's mid-term elections.
- Grover grew up in London's East End, where he served time as an armed robber, a hairdresser, a boxer and a self-help Svengali - so he has a hinterland of experiences to draw on.
- But the Svengali rolled his dice with Lohan's current popularity and lost miserably.
- The worst of it's that he's only 20 months old and the Svengali who has done this to him is his own grandfather.
- Music Svengalis litter the music industry, but there's only one Anthony H Wilson.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber was the Svengali who held the musical theatre stage in thrall.
- They had better songs but more importantly they covered a broader age range, exhibiting a shrewdness lost on later generations of Svengalis.
- Eisenhower's ‘Madison Avenue’ consultant, Rosser Reeves, of the agency BBD&O, won renown that year as a campaign Svengali.
- Smug, self-satisfied and more than a little bit weird, it's difficult to tell if Gest is indeed well-meaning or some kind of queer Svengali.
- Nothing like a one-hit wonder band composed of former members of the ‘Mickey Mouse Club’, organized by a team of music industry Svengalis to spell true love.
- Hypnosis is not a sinister tool for Svengalis but a ‘gentle, effective and empowering therapy’.
- Was Sam Phillips a Svengali, a super salesman, or a shaman?
- That's our axe to grind: to prove that we are our own Svengalis.
Origin Early 20th century: the name of a musician in George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894), who controls Trilby's stage singing hypnotically. |