The French and Germans might then be tempted to use a "failure" in the IGC as an excuse to press ahead with schemes for a closer Franco-German union, which are known to beguile senior politicians in Paris in particular.
As Mr Thompson points out, who would have guessed 40 years ago that a piece of office equipment (a personal computer) would beguile people into sacrificing their health and welfare to play with it?
Sweden had come up with something new to beguile the world, along with the ball bearing, the Hasselblad camera, and dynamite.In its early days the firm had just a handful of employees.
More worryingly, there was a hermetic logic to them which, with the passions they aroused, made it possible to see how they could beguile and thrill many more.
No other critic writing in English can so effectively explain why you like a piece, or beguile you to reconsider it, or prompt you to hurry online and buy a recording.
This Britain is designed to gratify a British audience and beguile Americans; it is self-delusion masquerading as self-deprecation.Its main exponent is Richard Curtis, the "romcom" maestro behind "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and other saccharine distractions (though Woody Allen has tried to muscle in).
His mosaics decorating the walls of Tottenham Court Road underground station in central London beguile the thousands of people using it each day.Scotland is proud of him and most of its galleries have examples of his work; and Mr Paolozzi, who thought of himself as a European, admired Scotland for its ancient links with France.
MIST-DRAPED mountains and the serene ambience of the Thai city of Chiang Saen beguile visitors to the Mekong river in an area dubbed the Golden Triangle.
Mr Clinton's admirers recall how the former president's political smarts enabled him to beguile and outwit Mr Gingrich by stealing the Republicans' best ideas: a balanced budget, welfare reform, smaller government, deregulation.
Since 2007 the government has published bogus inflation statistics to beguile voters and investors.
The latecomer will beguile shoppers.
