A lovey-dovey rom-com with crackerjack casting and an authentic indie setting bewitched moviegoers into believing that it had a never-ending supply of onions worth peeling.
Until then, I was not very familiar with Cuban music, and I knew little about son, but I was bewitched by that album.
That summer, observers were bewitched by the novelty of coalition, not asking awkward questions of policy, so this proved deft management.
Their management teams, bewitched by iPad apps, speak of "all platforms being equal", and of the danger in treating news channels as "some separate legacy product, like Windows 95".
Too often, the phrase indicates that the acquirer is suddenly bewitched by the attraction of sheer size, or, more dangerously, is getting into a field it doesn't understand properly.
Those of us who imagined Van Gaal's appointment might re-invigorate Robin van Persie now have to accept he will probably never be the player who bewitched Old Trafford in his first season at the club.
The lovely bubble of the Cain story has popped, making it harder for those bewitched by his silver tongue and folksy charm to continue to overlook his frequent gaffes and flaws, which include flip-flops on abortion and a comprehensive ignorance of the world beyond America's shores.
It all went terribly wrong before 2000 when bewitched executives squandered money on the internet and Time Warner sold itself to AOL in one of history's worst-ever deals.
Too many skivers are still bewitched by the old myth that there is a connection between effort and reward.
Producers are bewitched by the rock-bottom cost of deploying a single man (usually) with a mic, just as in the music industry singer-songwriters are said to be outdoing more expensive bands.
From 2016 sevens becomes an Olympic sport, and countries with a small player base, not to mention governments bewitched by the prospect of Olympic medals, will start to concentrate on the shorter, less complicated version of the game.
