bedazzlement

In the hands of Mr. von Trier, himself no stranger to emotional distress, bedazzlement is depression's surprising byproduct.

'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011

Light from oncoming headlamps shatters in the tracks left by the wiper blades, a bedazzlement like sunlight on ice.

Obituary 2010

But, to the odd gasp of incredulity, he has pitched his campaign as that of an anti-elitist insurgent, talking up his working-class upbringing near Warrington and bemoaning his old colleagues 'bedazzlement with wealth, glamour and influence.

Labour leadership: The contenders 2010

This year the little town was especially seductive, what with cloudless skies by day, a bedazzlement of stars by night and, at an altitude of almost two miles, mountain air as fragrant as it was thin.

Thin Air, Rich Fare 2010

Veronika Part's Odile in Act III of Swan Lake should have been taped (perhaps, fingers crossed, it was) for future broadcast across Martian spacecamps, to show those who left earth behind what bedazzlement looked like before our planet turned completely brown.

Of Mice and Me (cont'd): James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Throughout its 600 pages, he manages to transmit genuine sparks of bedazzlement and wonder.

Shakespeare Unleashed 2007

Let the love of liberty that is our birthright enflame your match and lend its bedazzlement to your cigarette.

Light Up Fair Albion Newmania 2007

Let the love of liberty that is our birthright enflame your match and lend its bedazzlement to your cigarette.

Archive 2007-07-29 Newmania 2007

Rise from bedazzlement and the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch: In Which the Round Table Coos 2008

At his own risk and peril, it analyzes and digs deep into its own bedazzlement.

Les Miserables 2008