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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

While Rutley’s graceful and pliant frame carried more elegance, an assumed superb superiority, a cold, ironical disdain and lofty ease, bespoke an imperious nature, indifferent to that soft, beguilement so charming to women.

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest