beguilement
Example Sentences
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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
And when Dragan is finally captured, and the townspeople are forced to reckon with their foolish beguilement, her secret emerges.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
The concert ended with a voluptuous rendition of Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite No. 2, with playing of liquid beguilement from the principal flutist, Robert Langevin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2012
Indomitable and irreplaceable, embodying glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2011
In agony, he prays for death; when he learns of the decease of his wife and her beguilement by Nessus into an unintentional crime, his resentment softens.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
