seduction
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It is the seduction of surfaces Cusk is exploring here, the ways we are taken in by so much that is chimerical: lavish interiors, actors, our own doubled selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Politics is about persuasion, seduction even, and prime ministers seem to have forgotten this is an almost constant process of wooing voters, MPs and civil servants to keep them driving your agenda forward.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
John Rogers was convicted of a lesser charge in a case that featured spycraft, online seduction and a blackmail scam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
After this first charged encounter, the initial gesture between them is not seduction.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Sonic Youth pulls the throttle all the way out: Moore threads drumsticks into his guitar strings, Ranaldo utilizes an electric drill onstage, Gordon barks out her bold feminist anthems on the seductions of consumer-driven desire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
There was rhapsody in these musical seductions — and the calculation that the way to theater lovers’ hearts was through their cast albums.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2021
Time’s Up didn’t quite assert that women were immune to the seductions of power and money.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2021
And yet she herself was vulnerable to the seductions of one of the most famous, and infamous, musicians of that time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
In fact, it is only the great passions which, tearing us away from the seductions of indolence, endow us with that continuity of attention, to which alone superiority of mind is attached.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
