beguilement
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But Coppola is altogether more interested in how the women register their own beguilement, and also how McBurney, with more instinct than calculation, manipulates their sympathies and awakens their repressed desires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
But the deeper beguilement is how she manages to create the effect of wholly realized figures while simultaneously confounding so many of our assumptions about the figurative.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
Indomitable and irreplaceable, embodying glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2011
What Mr. Ackermann needed was not more beguilement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2011
From that day to this, if I have felt a beguilement toward the flesh-pots, I still hear the stern tones of Horace Mann.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
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