besotted

It was more common for girls in my year group at school to be besotted with them than not.

Even though staff have long been besotted with the chick, seeing the love he’s attracted from the public has been an absurd experience, they say.

"The whole community has won really, and I've met Nic and she's lovely. They're both besotted with each other and I wish them only the best from here on in."

Like all besotted lovers, they seem to exist in a private realm, one that the French-Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy illuminates with cozy framing, daubs of strong colors and a bold, graphic sensibility.

The voice of Michael McDonald has been compared to velvet, silk and sandpaper, melted chocolate and last year, by a besotted 11-year-old girl, an angel.