What's the difference between beguiler and charmer?
Beguiler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, beguiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is fond of recalling what the late Labour leader John Smith told him the last time he appeared on his show - "You have a way of asking beguiling questions with potentially lethal consequences."
(2) Ancient towns and wooded hillsides looked gorgeous reflected in the blue water, but we were beguiled just as much by the people.
(3) Shotton's Agent Provocateur story is a beguiling one.
(4) In his speech, watched by grandees such as the former party leader Lord Ashdown, who was Clegg’s original mentor, he said: “It is clear that in constituency after constituency north of the border, the beguiling appeal of Scottish nationalism has swept all before it, and south of the border a fear of what that means for the United Kingdom has strengthened English conservatism too.
(5) Situated on the road to Nazareth amid the beguiling beauty of the hills of northern Israel, the town is home to the family of Tomer Hemed, Brighton’s principal striker and a big threat to Boro’s dreams.
(6) The downside of this approach is the abiding and beguiling folly – so topical in the centenary year of the first world war – of thinking there is an off-the-peg solution from yesterday sitting on a shelf somewhere that can deal with the instabilities of today and tomorrow.
(7) But for those after something more off-track, or who balk at the $750 gorilla-tracking permit fee, the chimpanzees of Nyungwe are a beguiling alternative.
(8) More shocking still was the sight of an entire industry systematically pulling young people into their glittering and beguiling world – with little care for the collateral damage.
(9) "He was a children's entertainer and they were beguiled by his singing and painting.
(10) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian With the beguiling hand of an architectural alchemist, Wilson has sliced a great circle out of a concrete facade in Liverpool and set it spinning.
(11) Others think their one-time champion Hague has been beguiled by Europeanist mandarins at the Foreign Office.
(12) United, however, have rarely impressed this season, with their failings illuminated by the contrast with a beguiling Arsenal.
(13) In the months since their formation, the eight members of Pussy Riot have perfected their own form of protest: their songs are pithy, angry missives, largely directed at Putin, and they remain beguilingly anonymous – the band wear neon balaclavas to conceal their identities and perform flash gigs in unexpected places: on public transport, for example, and, once, on a prison roof.
(14) This chunky combination of adventure game and Lego construction set has beguiled players for over two years, without a multimillion-dollar development budget, or blanket advertising.
(15) Nancy's novels and Jessica's memoirs offered a beguiling - and friends thought - inaccurate picture of the extraordinary life lived out chez Mitford under the irascible gaze of Lord Redesdale ("Uncle Matthew" in Love in a Cold Climate), celebrated for his dislike of foreigners and his daughters' friends, disparaged collectively as "sewers".
(16) One reason why the arguments for Brexit are so beguiling is because it’s easy to imagine an alternative world where some of the current laws of economics or politics don’t apply.
(17) While regulators chisel inconsequentially at the beguiling monoliths of private power that configure today’s information flows and dams, we the citizens have been reduced to raw material – sourced, bartered and mined in a curiously fabricated “privatised commons” of data and surveillance.
(18) Those new to Paper were beguiled, wondering what the queen of reality TV, gossip talkshows and social media was doing on the cover of a publication they had never heard of.
(19) In his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, the deputy prime minister said the Ukip and SNP leaders are making “seductive and beguiling” offers that are no more than a “counsel of despair”.
(20) In 2015 Labour’s Andy Burnham is offering the equally beguiling vision of “whole person care”.
Charmer
Definition:
(n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.
(n.) One who delights and attracts the affections.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a recovering graduate of an institution that played host to a similar bunch of charmers, all I can say is, so far, so humdrum.
(2) In fact charm and magic refer to the same phenomenon, the promise of blissful sleep at the breast of Mother, the omnipotent charmer.
(3) On it Jacobs showed that he was more than just a practised charmer until he was succeeded by the more down-to-earth John Timpson .
(4) Politicians may be professional charmers, but you will rarely see a more effective lesson in how to win round a difficult crowd.
(5) I have seen two particularly horrible examples lately: Mothercare's "When I grow up I want to marry a prince" and a real charmer on a dad in a kids' playground – "I swear officer, she was awake."
(6) "Here's this girl, who has it all – about to make a good marriage, has a great job, then meets this charmer.
(7) Gone are the days of associating India with snake charmers and elephants.
(8) In fact, she's something of a charmer, although this is possibly helped by the fact that I genuinely don't really want to ask too many things about how she gets her children to school, or who made the first move when she and Johnny Depp , father to Lily-Rose (11) and Jack (8), got together all those years ago.
(9) The short answer is that the friends of George Galloway and Ken Livingstone have taken it over and when those charmers move in, basic principles fly out of the window.
(10) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
(11) I often exchanged grubby dollars or packets of Marlboro for tins of caviar from slightly sinister gold-toothed charmers.
(12) Taking all I knew about the snake-charmer in Derry and, more especially, about Chris the mod in London, I translated them as best I could to Brooklyn.
(13) Some recent Standard headlines include: "'Drunk on power' - Ken admits he has a private fiefdom"; "SUICIDE BOMB BACKER RUNS KEN CAMPAIGN", and "Charmer Boris, a one-man messiah".
(14) In his youth, when he was a Boston-based calypso singer, they used to call him The Charmer.
(15) What a charmer, Karl Lagerfeld "This seat's taken."
(16) I wish Greene's bruising charmer of a Helen showed just a touch more longing for remove, but these performances are otherwise fulsome emotional creations indeed.
(17) He can be infuriating at times, but what you see is what you get.” He’s not a charmer?
(18) The Press Trust of India criticised the film for its "exotic India package – snake charmers in red turbans, magicians who say abracadabra and slum dwellers who speak pukka English".
(19) A charmer with a ruthless steak, a PR once said of him : "Andy's very clever.
(20) Langella, who's been doing the publicity rounds with him, is such a charmer it is hard to quite credit him as a curmudgeon .