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The director, who like Mr. Coppola has cast a lead actor who isn’t conventionally handsome, has, also like Mr. Coppola, outfitted him with hair that is somewhere between entrancingly marvelous and distractingly ridiculous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Sweat pools around the athlete’s body and the thin line between ambition and obsession is entrancingly legible on Striks’s face.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

Not least, “The Selfish Giant,” “The Young King,” “The Star-Child” and all the others are written in exquisite, entrancingly musical prose.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2020

When considered after the fact of their broadcast runs as a discrete, closed-off whole, the series making up his body of work constitute some of the most entrancingly strange television in the medium’s history.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2019

There she stood on her pedestal, entrancingly beautiful.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton