seduction
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But we know too that to double down is to fall prey to the timeworn seduction of the sunk-cost fallacy: We’ve invested so much in this effort that to abandon it now would be worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
This is not about seduction, he has to see that.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
The seductions of my city were not in what other people wrote but in the details, details, details of my everyday life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
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
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
This system has filled our lives with alerts, seductions, addictions, and obsessions.
From Slate ● May 21, 2021
Yet he resisted all seductions and was in Nuremberg again before the summer of 1507.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
