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Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

You have to do so in such a way that allows the audience to come in to you, to beguile them, to charm them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

We witness McFadin as he smilingly interrogates—and intimidates—witnesses and plaintiffs, beguiles juries and sweet-talks judges, knocking down charges against Kenrex as if bowling strike after strike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

What makes White’s Emmy-winning series stand out is how he immediately beguiles his viewers by not revealing the identity of the deceased nor the cause of death.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

Here, Cooke, a Manchester native, convincingly turns Irish as the spirited young woman who beguiles most everyone but always seems to have a hidden agenda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

A pleasant chance companion, bound to the same port, beguiles the time for us.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

I left the theater mildly beguiled, smiling as I entered my car and shrugging as soon as I hit the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025

When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Portrayed by Golshifteh Farahani with a beguiling compassion clouded by a certain resignation, Nafisi sets out to teach her students “The Great Gatsby” but can’t avoid stepping on political landmines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

As we follow him, what seemed like a close look at a regional folk dance soon reveals itself as a magical realist journey that’s both beguiling and amusing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

That truck stop ease makes “All Dressed Up” beguiling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

His free lunch was no better than theirs and there was no beguiling entertainment other than that spontaneously contributed by his customers.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith