beguiling
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Her voice, paired with Mr. Carey’s writing, creates a beguiling audio backstory for a woman whom time has rendered as unreal as one of her waxen figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
“They’re beguiling, social and bold,” she says of the animals.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 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
Instead, you get restored or re-created buildings with plaques and interpretation boards, so it doesn’t have much, or indeed any, real life, but it still has a certain beguiling, polished prettiness.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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