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

The Creevey brothers had managed to get hold of a stack of Support Cedric Diggory! badges and were trying to bewitch them to make them say Support Harry Potter! instead.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

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

And while his role is a smidge underwritten, Mr. Morris exudes an air of jaded yearning that naturally bewitches young Mia, with the same sad consequences as in the original.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2015

The music bewitches the maiden; Forth from her home doth she go; She follows the bony fiddler, Who sings as he scrapes his bow.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

Studebaker halted Avanti production after only a year; but the design lived on until 2006, with its rights passing through a succession of wildcat coachbuilders too bewitched to help themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

"Wicked" has bewitched even its most reluctant fans, enticing them to overstay their welcome in the magical world of Oz.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 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

In Episode 1, the bewitched Agatha peers into what appears to be a child’s room in her house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

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

It’s an enchanting companion to a bewitching exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

When Conlon conducts the final performance of the company’s bewitching production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” Sunday afternoon that will also mark his last appearance as L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

It was expensive, but worth every penny — a beautiful, abstract rendering of the film’s themes, displayed in a bewitching graphic style I couldn’t get out of my mind after coveting the poster online.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen