She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.
Quotes about beguiling (7 Quotes)
We believe this configuration has lasted so long it may be having a beguiling effect on the market. And with no obvious catalyst for a reappearance of volatility, the obvious risk is that investors take this stability for granted.
I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
When in perplexity the beguiling simplicity of the circle is like a raft to a drowning man.