| Elena believes that Lila is her muse — and Lila forces Elena to succeed, through a combination of encouragement, generosity, and bedevilment. |
| We used to, back in the day, for the bedevilment of it. |
| Isabelle did not formulate any plan of bedevilment for the Captain, but she watched for opportunities with lynx-eyed attention. |
| The most common antidote to this bedevilment was a charm that broke the ray into pieces, a sort of prism made of colored wool, which one wore as a necklace or a bracelet, or hung over a bed or a doorway. |
| They did create chances, but failure to take them has been the bedevilment of their season. |
| Despite the bedevilment of Pakistani-American relations over the matter, Mr. Olson said the United States had gained much from the two countries' on-again-off-again partnership. |
