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

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

Then followed much similar feminine beguilement; the faculty for which seems to be rather increased by the Jordan bath.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various