"The Beguiled," by comparison, is little more than a claustrophile's dream.
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Beguiled by Adams's energy and enthusiasm, Bridgers brought her best songs.
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Certainly, he seemed beguiled by the imagery of the Moon-Kim meeting.
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I was also perturbed and beguiled by this contraption that dispensed Royal Paper.
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Pinkerton, a dashing naval lieutenant, is beguiled by the young geisha Cio-Cio-San.
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He was an inveterate deadline misser, more beguiled by starting projects than finishing them.
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But this is one resourceful rodent, and who isn't just a little beguiled by his determination?
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But aides say he is beguiled by the prospect of making history on the Korean Peninsula.
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Non-Chinese seem just as beguiled by the purity of Han China as the government in Beijing.
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"I don't want to make a crime series that is beguiled by the perpetrator or the crime," Lindholm said.
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Beguiled by a pro-Kremlin broadcast media, ordinary Russians have been willing to trade material comfort for national pride.
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Ledecky's mother, a freestyler who went on to compete at the University of New Mexico, was beguiled by Meyer.
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She showed little interest in reading until she was 10, when she was beguiled by L. Frank Baum's Oz novels.
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We are beguiled by the bench, wowed by the tureen, amused by the bedspread, and piqued by the wall label.
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In a sense we are all Alabamians now, wincing when sophisticates abroad satirize our willingness to be beguiled by abnormality.
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Cameron is beguiled by the idea that she can help alleviate others' suffering—she remembers the terrible migraines that tormented her mother.
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Partly, it seems, the Chinese corporate tourists are beguiled by the Valley's dreamlike promises of changing the world and growing filthy rich almost overnight.
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Don't be too beguiled by the bad news, Danny says; venture funds run like J-Curves, and there are still winners in that particular portfolio.
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It wasn't until I moved to Chicago as an adult and started dating non-Michiganders that I realized not everybody is beguiled by Great Lake fossils.
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People who grew up in the neighborhood find themselves beguiled by the precipitous decline of their childhood home, or the sudden changes of current-day Detroit.
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But where Tape mostly received polite nods, Waking Life won over viewers who were beguiled by Linklater's attempt to use animation to realize the landscape of dreams.
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His rise to the summit of MMA matched his soaring popularity, as fans around the world were beguiled by his magnetic charm, searing put-downs, and infectious laugh.
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Much of the Latin American left is blindly obedient to the failed models of Cuba and Venezuela, or still beguiled by populist caudillos (for whom Mariátegui had no time).
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"Sacred Deer" is one of two Farrell movies competing for this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes - the other is "The Beguiled" by Sofia Coppola that also stars Nicole Kidman.
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Neither are the women she plays, like Natasha, an impulsive young countess beguiled by Moscow society, or Ruby, an activist beauty on "UnREAL," the Lifetime drama about a reality dating show.
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Many students -- not just law students -- have been at one time beguiled by a glossy brochure, beautiful campus photos, fancy new workout facilities, or -- as is alleged here -- enticing postgraduate employment statistics.
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While I was beguiled by the food of Shanghai (as you might be able to tell), I was equally smitten with the numerous historical, artistic and musical options the city has to offer.
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Country and R&B have always been two sides of the same coin, rooted in solid storytelling and beguiled by the torments of love, and any artist in either worth their salt knows that.
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By my second visit to the Guggenheim, though, I found myself unexpectedly beguiled by the humaneness of the mature Giacometti, whose thin men and women appeared to me more optimistic than I've ever found them before.
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As we see in the painting "Art = Ben" (259), Ben is very much into his ego (he never appears overly beguiled by the elusive nature of the self) and often attempts memorable gestures under his brand name.
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Beguiled by the administration's claims that the agreement is non-binding, non-enforceable, and, therefore, not a treaty, many Republican lawmakers don't see how it could suppress domestic energy production or lock in the EPA's power plant rules.
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Kidman — whose other Cannes offerings are science fiction teenage film "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", an episode of Jane Campion's TV series "Top of the Lake" and "The Beguiled" by Sofia Coppola — said she sought unusual projects.
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Saunders once felt burdened to be the grandson of the golfer known as the King, but now he is happy to embrace Palmer's legacy, which includes seven major championships and an army of followers beguiled by his humility and his grace.
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Opinion Columnist It is a scene that has become all too common, and dare I say dangerously close to becoming mundane: Donald Trump said something outrageous at one of his political rallies and his supporters, those hopelessly beguiled by the bully, cheered.
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Beguiled by the affective fallacy, he's made several miscalculations in crafting his meticulously arranged musical vapor cloud; inducing hypnosis in a listener requires higher levels of energy and sonic thickness, because inducing anything in a listener requires aesthetic intensity of any sort.
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While the situations are inherently dramatic, the miniseries will surely resonate most powerfully among those alarmed by the country's current direction, who will see it as a cautionary warning about being beguiled by a celebrity turned politician who wraps himself in the American flag.
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But that day lives on in infamy, not because there was a football game, but because Americans, now as divided as they've been in years, watched collectively, beguiled by Prince, a God amongst men, as he embraced Mother Nature's deluge and turned it into art.
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We were quickly beguiled by its languid charm, and we recalled the grace notes of Greenwich Village and Chelsea in a compact town that has a dozen art galleries and craft shops, and plainspoken restaurants that let you feel like you are dining in your grandmother's kitchen.
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Sculptors of the Gilded Age, beguiled by the beauty known as "the world's most perfectly formed woman," chose her as their model for statues that grace public buildings, bridges, fountains and mansions to this day -- including monuments to war and peace, to women, to memory and even to firefighters.
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Emma Goldman, a 30-year-old human rights professional for a nonprofit, who grew up in an observant home, not only was beguiled by how Haredim experienced "the same internal struggles, hopes and dreams, heartbreaks and betrayals," but she also could recognize the loopholes some Orthodox Jews find to bend laws to their needs.
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Beguiled by the fantasy of a cozy, self-sufficient home in the trees — perhaps best embodied by the jury-rigged Falcon's Nest in Johann David Wyss's "The Swiss Family Robinson" (1812), with its banyan-tree stairwell and turtle-shell sinks — they requested an open-air bathtub, a ladder leading to a lofted bed and a zip-line that would careen across the property's pond.
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Cawston Manor had been constructed by George Cawston, an American stockbroker, who settled in the area in 1897, beguiled by the fact that the village had his name.
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The Scots were 'beguiled by their own guiding', according to one Scottish writer.Diurnal (Edinburgh, 1833), 25: Cameron (1998), 320. Several hundred of the Scots may have drowned in the marshes and river. James, who was not present at the battle (he had remained at Lochmaben), withdrew to Falkland Palace humiliated and ill with fever.
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James Villas is a former food editor for Town & Country magazine. The back flap of the book's jacket notes that Villas was "beguiled by bacon since he was a boy." Prior to The Bacon Cookbook, Villas had written other cookbooks including The Glory of Southern Cooking, My Mother's Southern Kitchen, and Biscuit Bliss. The Bacon Cookbook is his 15th book on food.
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"But I was beguiled by vanity and began to see devils again. Then I knew that I had been deceived, and I made full disclosure to my confessor and asked him for his prayers; and because of his prayers I am now saved and ever beseech the Lord to grant me the spirit of humility."Archimandrite Sofronii. "Saint Silouan, the Athonite".
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Not deterred by Edgar's violent past, Stella is beguiled by Edgar's passion and the affair intensifies. Although Max suspects nothing, Dr. Peter Cleave (Sir Ian McKellan) correctly guesses that the two are seeing each other. Cleave, who is fixated on Stella himself, attempts to get Edgar to admit to the affair—to no avail. Edgar, who has been denied release, can take it no longer and breaks out of the asylum.
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Beguiled by her seemingly perfect life, Ingrid comments on one of her posts and receives a response from Sloane. With an inheritance of over $60,000 from her deceased mother, Ingrid decides to move to Los Angeles to become friends with Taylor. Upon arrival, she rents a house in Venice from Dan Pinto, an aspiring screenwriter. She visits Taylor's regular hangouts and restaurants, and gets a makeover in her style.
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On the way, he passes an oracle but refuses to consult it, citing Stoic principles. Caesar visits Troy and pays respects to his ancestral gods. A short time later he arrives in Egypt; when Pharaoh's messenger presents him with the head of Pompey, Caesar feigns grief to hide his joy at Pompey's death. Book 10: Caesar arrives in Egypt, where he is beguiled by the Pharaoh's sister Cleopatra.
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Maria even lies about her background, telling Dino she is three- quarters Italian. Beguiled by how much he apparently has in common with Maria, Dino introduces her to his mother, the Principessa, who expresses her approval. Later, Dino confides in Maria that she is the only girl whom he has ever completely trusted. Troubled by her deception, Maria confesses her subterfuge, even showing Dino her notebook listing his interests.
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The 12th-century Middle Irish tale Aided Muirchertaig Meic Erca is an account of Muirchertach's supernatural death. Here Muirchertach dies in the House of Clettach, drowned in a vat of wine, burned by fire, and crushed by a falling roof beam, near Brú na Bóinne, beguiled by the illusions of the otherworldly maiden Sín into believing that he is being attacked by Túathal Máelgarb.Byrne, pp. 100–105; Wiley.
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A short time after this prophecy, Eurydice had been wandering in the forest with the Nymphs. In some versions of the story, Aristaeus, a shepherd, then saw her, was beguiled by her beauty, made advances towards her and began to chase her. Other versions of the story relate that Eurydice is merely dancing with the Nymphs. In any case, while fleeing or dancing, she was bitten by a snake and died instantly.
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Karl Marx, The German ideology, Part 1 Thus, for example, the working class has often been, for Marx, beguiled by nationalism, organized religion, and other distractions. These ideological devices help to keep people from realizing that it is they who produce wealth, they who deserve the fruits of the land, all who can prosper: instead of literally thinking for themselves, they think the thoughts given to them by the ruling class.Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, ch. 2.
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Dorothy and Lydia enter, but the two men do not recognise them as the rustics who enchanted them in Act I. The women play on the susceptibilities of the men. Wilder becomes beguiled by Lydia and Sherwood by Dorothy. Eventually the women succeed in persuading each man to give them the rings that "Abigail" and "Dorcas" gave the other at the inn. The guests retire to rest, and in the dark, Wilder, Sherwood and Lurcher carry out Wilder's scheme.
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Episode 2: King Uttanpada, Manu and Shatarupa's son, becomes beguiled by his ambitious younger wife Suruchi and neglects his elder queen Suniti and her five-year-old son Dhruva. Suruchi throws Dhruva off his father's lap and Uttanpada fails to intervene. Suruchi tells the unhappy boy that no one but Lord Shri Vishnu the supreme god can grant him the power to sit on his father's lap now. Episode 3: Dhruva leaves the palace in search of Lord Shri Vishnu.
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Evan Palazzo, the bandleader and pianist, is a native New Yorker. He began playing piano by ear at age three and was beguiled by amateur musicianship his whole life. As a boy, he aspired to be "a performer and an entertainer, but also a combination of Rick Blaine and Victor Laszlo." He was a student at the Waldorf school in New York City and went on to major in theater and musical theater at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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Searching Riccardo's house for the stolen music, Handel confronts him and sabotages the relationship. Beguiled by Handel, Riccardo reveals (in a flashback-within-a-flashback) that Carlo was a superb singer as a child, and when their father died, the fear of losing that voice prompted him to drug Carlo and castrate him illegally, then promise to compose for him a great opera: "Orpheus." That evening, Handel meets with Farinelli backstage. He tells Farinelli the secret of his castration and allows him to sing the stolen music.
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They were the ones who formed a choir in opposition to > the Muses. And there was a musical contest in Helicon. > Whenever the daughters of Pierus began to sing, all creation went dark and > no one would give an ear to their choral performance. But when the Muses > sang, heaven, the stars, the sea and rivers stood still, while Mount > Helicon, beguiled by the pleasure of it all, swelled skywards tilI, by the > will of Poseidon, Pegasus checked it by striking the summit with his hoof.
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The bride's gay Uncle Winston, initially hurt and furious at having been left off the original guest list, becomes a support for Aggie. Jane is initially beguiled by the attention, and happily picks out a wedding dress ("One White Dress"). But soon relationships are strained to the breaking point under the pressure of costly bridesmaids' dresses, cake layers, and each detail. Aggie confesses to Jane that she and Tom were married because she was pregnant ("Vision"), and because her father bought Tom his share in the taxi.
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He then vows to repair the damage he has done and requests Oriana retire to his country house while he does so. Beguiled by his seeming honesty, Oriana agrees, unaware that Gondarino has sent her to a brothel. As Lazarillo heads to the mercer's house, Valore's spies met with Lucio, having cobbled together enough random snatches of Lazarillo's statements as to manufacture the appearance of treason. Lazarillo arrives at the mercer's house too late, as the mercer has already traded the fish to a panderer in exchange for a bride.
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In an interview about her work, and "Brokeback Mountain" in particular, author Proulx stated Jack Twist is a "confused Wyoming ranch [kid]" who finds himself in a personal sexual situation he did not foresee, nor can understand. She said both men were "beguiled by the cowboy myth", and Jack "settles on rodeo as an expression of the Western ideal. It more or less works for him until he becomes a tractor salesman." Jack is also more romantic than Ennis, being the one who pursues the relationship and insists that they should live together officially.
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She vows to make them suffer for all the pain and deception they caused. After much seducing and despite her mother's warnings, Paula is again beguiled by Cesar Luis and they get married in a small church ceremony. Cesar Luis persuades Paula to quit the company and stay home (presumably so he can continue his office affairs without his new wife knowing). Monica sees an opportunity for revenge and decides to use her majority interest in the company to become VP, the same job Paula held when Monica was the stay-at-home wife.
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Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse (1888) Mark Antony—one of the triumvirs of the Roman Republic, along with Octavius and Lepidus—has neglected his soldierly duties after being beguiled by Egypt's Queen, Cleopatra. He ignores Rome's domestic problems, including the fact that his third wife Fulvia rebelled against Octavius and then died. Octavius calls Antony back to Rome from Alexandria to help him fight against Sextus Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, three notorious pirates of the Mediterranean. At Alexandria, Cleopatra begs Antony not to go, and though he repeatedly affirms his deep passionate love for her, he eventually leaves.
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Gradually, Jondalar began to communicate with the woman and learned that her name was Ayla. Believing that she was either an acolyte of some tribe's zelandonia or a full-fledged Zelandoni on some kind or sacred retreat, Jondalar was beguiled by her beauty and intrigued by the mystery she presented. When he realized that she could not speak, Jondalar began to teach Ayla Zelandonii, further mystified. Jondalar and Ayla both began to fall in love with one another while Jondalar recovered from his injuries; after a dream of her own mother speaking to her, Ayla's ability to speak improved exponentially.
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After the assassination of Hipparchus (514 BC), Simonides withdrew to Thessaly, where he enjoyed the protection and patronage of the Scopadae and Aleuadae. These were two of the most powerful families in the Thessalian feudal aristocracy yet they seemed notable to later Greeks such as Theocritus only for their association with Simonides.Theocritus, 16.42-47, cited by D. Campbell, Greek Lyric III, Loeb Classical Library (1991), page 341 Thessaly at that time was a cultural backwater, remaining in the 'Dark Ages' until the close of the 5th century. According to an account by Plutarch, the Ionian poet once dismissed the Thessalians as "too ignorant" to be beguiled by poetry.
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In an interview about her work, and "Brokeback Mountain" in particular, Proulx stated Ennis del Mar was a "confused Wyoming ranch kid" who finds himself in a personal sexual situation he did not foresee, nor can understand. She said both men were "beguiled by the cowboy myth," and "Ennis tries to be one but never gets beyond ranch hand work." Ennis is also the more closed-down party of his and Jack's relationship, being more reluctant to show affection towards Jack. When Jack brings up suggestions about them living together, or even just Ennis moving to Texas, which is his home state, Ennis always declines, sometimes in a very harsh way.
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The gallery is also known as the pioneer of the one-man exhibition, most famously that of James McNeill Whistler's First Venice Set of etchings in December 1880; the gallery having sent Whistler to Venice in 1879 in part to enable him to escape from the issues following his libel action against John Ruskin. The commission was for Whistler to travel to Venice for three months to create a series of twelve etchings. Beguiled by the city, he stayed for fourteen months and completed approximately fifty etchings. Venice also inspired Whistler to make some hundred works in pastel, of which 53 were shown in the Venice Pastels exhibition in 1881.
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American writer Rick Atkinson concludes that Rommel was "loyal in his own fashion and as beguiled by Hitler as steel filings by a magnet ... Hitler was a bulwark against bolshevism, [Rommel] had told staff officers." Despite this intimate relationship though, he was not provided with basic information on Germany's strategic plan: "Rommel did not know that smashing the Soviet Union and major territorial acquisitions in the East would be the cornerstone of this plan. Nor did Rommel realise that Hitler saw no conflict of interest between Germany and the maritime power Great Britain, which he hoped to make an ally." He also had only a week's warning before the launch of Case White at the start of 1943.
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In 19th century Imperial Saint Petersburg two stories interweave together around a mysterious portrait painting. Gifted, starving young artist Andrei Chartkov is on the verge of perfecting his talent, only to be seduced by money mystically appearing in his life by the force of a lifelike portrait he accidentally stumbles upon in an art shop. Beguiled by the luster of gold and the life that comes with it, he forsakes his ideals to become a fashionable painter. Turning his back on professional integrity, Chartkov does everything he can to rise up in society, gaining great wealth and status, ultimately to suffer from jealous rage, realizing that his talent had been wasted for nothing.
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