beguilement
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
