beguile

Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

You have to do so in such a way that allows the audience to come in to you, to beguile them, to charm them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Hitchcock beguiles us into sympathizing with the psychopathic Bruno.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

It trails across the ground, flutters in the air and beguiles you, just like this film.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

This is but your imagination that beguiles you.

From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

But the summers of the Pacific Northwest beguiled him, along with an arty scene of kindred directors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

But Billy Pilgrim wasn’t beguiled by the back of the store.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Portrayed by Golshifteh Farahani with a beguiling compassion clouded by a certain resignation, Nafisi sets out to teach her students “The Great Gatsby” but can’t avoid stepping on political landmines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

He is asking for forgiveness for backing a faulty product, while also claiming to be a victim of its beguiling charms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

That truck stop ease makes “All Dressed Up” beguiling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

His free lunch was no better than theirs and there was no beguiling entertainment other than that spontaneously contributed by his customers.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith