beguilement

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But Coppola is altogether more interested in how the women register their own beguilement, and also how McBurney, with more instinct than calculation, manipulates their sympathies and awakens their repressed desires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017

And when Dragan is finally captured, and the townspeople are forced to reckon with their foolish beguilement, her secret emerges.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

The concert ended with a voluptuous rendition of Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite No. 2, with playing of liquid beguilement from the principal flutist, Robert Langevin.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012

Indomitable and irreplaceable, embodying the movies, glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.

From Time • Mar. 23, 2011

For I have been straying amongst wiles and images, and mayhappen I shall yet find this to be but a dream of the night, or a beguilement of the day.” 

From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by Morris, William