seduction
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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
WASHINGTON—A former Federal Reserve official was found not guilty Tuesday of conspiring to share confidential central-bank information with Chinese intelligence officers, capping a case that featured spycraft, online seduction and a blackmail scam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Maybe that’s the quiet seduction of oatmeal: it rewards attention.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
But our talk had no room for literary seduction.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Saturday is the Sabbath, Medina said, a day of rest and reflection, with no surrender to the seductions of the wired world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2023
The problem with historical novels is that they have to balance the author’s perspective on the history with the seductions of a novel — character, plot, action.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
