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 glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.

From Time • Apr. 14, 2011

What Mr. Ackermann needed was not more beguilement.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2011

As for Adèle, if he could light up again the sentiment which he once saw beaming in her face, he could at least find in it a charming beguilement of his unrest.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various