beguile

Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

You have to do so in such a way that allows the audience to come in to you, to beguile them, to charm them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Hitchcock beguiles us into sympathizing with the psychopathic Bruno.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

It trails across the ground, flutters in the air and beguiles you, just like this film.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

See how the morning smiles On her bright eastern hill, And with soft steps beguiles Them that lie slumbering still!

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

The quest for a stable global order has long beguiled idealists and realists alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

I left the theater mildly beguiled, smiling as I entered my car and shrugging as soon as I hit the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025

When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

We see straight-arrow Rex Harri- son disdaining Alexandria in the 1963 film Cleopatra, until he is beguiled by Elizabeth Taylor.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

But they’ve learned the hard way that it won’t work to come at him directly, because he ends up dominating interviews and beguiling those who, like Watters, love his commanding and clever style.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

This, and a range of other publications hailing Asia’s economic “miracle” led Edwards to conclude “too many people believed the beguiling narrative” and as a consequence, “lent these economies cheap, abundant capital which was misallocated.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

You can hear clear and compelling evidence of this on the opening track, “Jungle Roux,” in the beguiling falsetto on “Duvateen,” or the fascinating vocal treatment on “My Lover.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

He meets his slightly older schoolmate Olympia, one of Eggers’ most beguiling creations, when she implores him to scrawl scatological bathroom graffiti on a playground structure in Old-English typography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

On certain nights the moonlight had flooded through his dormer window and bathed everything in blue, beguiling shadows that prevented him from sleeping.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson