bewitch

Unlike Godard, he doesn’t try to bewitch you with theory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The prosecution alleged that Phiri and Candunde were hired by a fugitive former MP to bewitch Hichilema.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

While “I Put a Spell on You” is a fan-favorite, the super-creepy “Come Little Children,” sung by Parker’s Sarah to bewitch children for eating, is also a memorable performance.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

Self-possessed and unflappable, he radiates serenity even as he brutally trounces his competition, a kind of soothing confidence that seems to bewitch even Trebek.

From Slate ● May 29, 2019

“Have they found a new way to bewitch us?”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

He has constructed a glossy fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles.

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

An Ozark faith healer bewitches two construction engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2020

Orange wines may seem trendy, like a hipster fashion that bewitches bargoers from London to Tokyo.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2020

The garden — also rich in watery pools and jumbo succulents in bright pots — still bewitches with its far-from-the-dusty-medina vibe.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2019

Lamartine had been his model, then Victor Hugo, who bewitches young people, that lord of magnificent gestures, that undisputed master of words.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

By the end of the second hour—partly spent traversing grid-patterned streets to avoid an accident—I was bewitched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Yes, the bye week bewitched them in 2022 and 2023, when the offense lost its swagger and the Dodgers were beaten in two stunning division series upsets by the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

Chinese state media said the group had been "bewitched" by criminal organisations and were stranded in Thailand after illegally leaving the country.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

Francis Bacon complained in 1620 that the world had been bewitched, so inexplicable was the reverence for antiquity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The title track, which emphasizes the rapper’s new level of stardom, is anchored by a gleaming flip of Linda Clifford’s “Never Gonna Stop,” just four notes circling in a bewitching loop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

She conjures a bewitching onscreen presence that many of her contemporaries could only dream of, pulling the viewer’s gaze with a single glare from her steely eyes or the quiver of her chin.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Outflanked by cruel and fickle gods at every turn, legendary Greek hero Odysseus outsmarted a one-eyed giant, suffered through the bewitching Sirens’ song and braved the Underworld’s dead denizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

It would be a small, bewitching rectangle on the wall, drawing an occasional glance, not crowds.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day