beguile
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Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 21, 2025
In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.
From Scientific American β Aug. 18, 2023
English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.
From Salon β Aug. 8, 2023
But it’s the meditative quality of the language that is set to beguile.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 30, 2022
“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
In “Autumn Meeting,” a Budapest seductress beguiles an out-of-work jockey with romantic tales of love spurned.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 8, 2026
It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.
From Los Angeles Times β May 17, 2024
It trails across the ground, flutters in the air and beguiles you, just like this film.
From New York Times β 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 β Mar. 8, 2022
Baby having got both fists into his mouth beguiles himself into quiet.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
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 β Mar. 27, 2026
I left the theater mildly beguiled, smiling as I entered my car and shrugging as soon as I hit the road.
From Los Angeles Times β May 12, 2025
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 β Feb. 26, 2024
In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.
From New York Times β Jan. 17, 2024
“Oh, I see. I’m the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
You can hear clear and compelling evidence of this on the opening track, “Jungle Roux,” in the beguiling falsetto on “Duvateen,” or the fascinating vocal treatment on “My Lover.”
From Salon β Aug. 25, 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 β Jun. 13, 2026
But it wasn’t until 2003, when he and his wife, Libby, became full-time St. Andrews residents for an extended period, that Mr. Peper began this beguiling memoir.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 4, 2026
That truck stop ease makes “All Dressed Up” beguiling.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 16, 2026
They almost forgot about eleven o’clock, the mud pie making was so beguiling.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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