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

In “Autumn Meeting,” a Budapest seductress beguiles an out-of-work jockey with romantic tales of love spurned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

What makes White’s Emmy-winning series stand out is how he immediately beguiles his viewers by not revealing the identity of the deceased nor the cause of death.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

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

See how the morning smiles On her bright eastern hill, And with soft steps beguiles Them that lie slumbering still!

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Cricket is beguiled by her, and Olympia in turn is taken in by Cricket’s talent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

It didn’t take long before the collecting passion had seized hold in earnest and I found myself beguiled by the decorative arts of yesteryear.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

Their 8-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, beguiled onlookers in an ivory silk crepe dress by the designer Alexander McQueen — a miniature version of the dress worn by her mother.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

Ann Atwater grew up poor, black, and female in the mid-twentieth-century South, all circumstances that precluded her from buying into the myths that beguiled C.P.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

Few embody a tortured, beguiling Americana quite like her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

The key player of the “love trapezoid,” as Raicek called it, is Damon, an urban cowboy of a jewelry designer who moves among three beguiling women, the narrator among them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The Nolan men grew handsomer, weaker and more beguiling with each generation.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith