sirenic

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It’s sirenic, a call to blindness, a “happy” filter placed on a world that is often good but frequently not.

From Newsweek • Feb. 27, 2015

Norns and Rhinemaidens have sirenic charm and character.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2010

He has also taken soulful-eyed, sirenic Kay Francis, given her her best part for many a long picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

It causes the naturalist much amusement to watch the habits of this pretty little Owl, that, perched perfectly motionless on a branch, utters such a sirenic cry as to attract little birds in great numbers.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

One instinctively pictures a svelte form, a "face that launched a thousand ships," and all the rest of the sirenic paraphernalia that instinctively attach themselves to one's mental vision of a wholesale fracturer of hearts.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson