Nonetheless, Peterson still proclaims his innocence, and many supporters have been beguiled by his intelligence and charisma.

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Senior Tories are beguiled by May 1st 1997, the day of Mr Blair's beatific entry into power.

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It is unsettling that, even in an unprecedented peacetime boom, so many Americans are beguiled by protectionism.

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Thiel thinks that Americans who are beguiled by mere gadgetry have forgotten how expansive technological change can be.

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Economists are often too beguiled by elegant theories, but Mr Harford wisely confines himself to ideas that have been carefully tested against real life.

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Beguiled by technology, they may perhaps believe that smart bombs and Tomahawk missiles can nowadays win military victories without the help of foot soldiers.

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Fascinated by their outsider lives, Arbus beguiled her sitters with infectious empathy.

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