beguiling
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Ms. Campbell, never the most beguiling actress, has appeared in every entry except “Scream VI” and gives another perfunctory performance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
The limpid four-movement ballet is both courtly and casual, with its intricately evolving choreographic patterns gently beguiling, as if seen in a crystalline hall of mirrors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling and seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles and gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
It includes this beguiling take on Winter Wonderland, originally written in 1934, and covered more than 200 times.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025
He had been afraid that she would attack him, would lay her poor snares before him—snares which would be all the more pitifully beguiling because of their poverty.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
