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
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
It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
