Aged 28 and now foraging after a bumper new contract, Arsenal's record signing is surely treading close to the point where even a fond and indulgent manager may start to feel that a beguiling, at times frustrating three years is reaching a point of crisis.
The final track featured the same "beguiling feel" as the earlier version but was more "finished".
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust capitalised on the weirdness of that alien figure, the rock star; watching him perform "Starman" on Top of the Pops it was easy to believe that he was something other than a member of the human species, and beguiling to feel that he was something decidedly preferable.
I started to feel that I had been beguiled, in a sense, by Clive's easy, nonchalant, fluent conversation into thinking that he still had a great deal of general information at his disposal, despite the loss of memory for events.
But, while I was beguiled, I never felt that frisson of fear you get from Molière, where the transgressive hero is consumed by the flames of hell.
There's something eternally, strangely, sort of disgustingly beguiling about Diplo, and I really feel like yolque's nailed it with this two-headed-beast of a portrait.
Feeling somehow protective of the story, I was both beguiled and a little shocked by Slimani's audacity in laying claim to it.
Three Tecate beers on, I feel more receptive to swimming around in Firmin's consciousness, beguiled by his charmingly self-destructive logic, and even — gulp! — getting why Yvonne would want to come back to him.
"I Feel Bad About My Neck" had 15 entries, most of them tight, beguiling, exemplary essays written for print magazines (O, Vogue, The New Yorker) and The New York Times.
For the physical nature of those items started to feel like tangible and inescapable proof of the reality of this performer whose shadowy image beguiled us in the dark.
