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
But the deeper beguilement is how she manages to create the effect of wholly realized figures while simultaneously confounding so many of our assumptions about the figurative.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
Indomitable and irreplaceable, embodying the movies, glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.
From Time ● Mar. 23, 2011
What Mr. Ackermann needed was not more beguilement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2011
The most intriguing detail in the story of DE VALERA'S escape from Lincoln Gaol was the beguilement of the guards by two sweet girl-graduates from Dublin.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 by Various
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