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beguilement

noun as in come-hither

noun as in flirting

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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.

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.

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

But to get an unsentimental look at the market for such cases erodes the beguilement of a client base of “plain, ordinary, simple people.”

Zoe Boyle's portrayal of catlike Maggie, oozing sexiness and beguilement, is darkly contrasted to Jamie Parker's portrayal of Brick and his cold indifference to anything but whiskey.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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