He could half understand it: the good-humor, the good looks of elder and younger, and the provision for passing the time without any labor of intelligence, might make the house beguiling to people who had no particular use for their odd hours.
" But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce "Master's coming.
The way to enjoy wood-flowers is to track them down to their remote haunts—gloat over them—and then leave them with backward glances, taking with us only the beguiling memory of their grace and fragrance.
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel García Márquez is the great Colombian author's beguiling tale of a 50-year courtship, in which lovesickness is as debilitating and stubborn as disease.
New York City is the most beguiling place there is.
being fueled by a volatile mixture of wisdom, endearing arrogance, beguiling folly and, when the situation demands it, a kind of courage that knows no planetary bounds," commented The Wall Street Journal.
Television has seduced us all with the beguiling colours of coral reefs, but these are normally found in the tropics, a long way from home.
what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies--oh yes, and how soon and how easily our dream life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, any more.
Now time for a spoilsport alert: As someone with a limited affection for Cirque du Soleil-style entertainments, which "Monkey" generally resembles, I found the show to be visually beguiling but anodyne, juvenile and a little tedious, even at the comparatively brief running time (by the festival's standards) of under two hours.
At last she turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment, and saying: "The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.
