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
She could write and she wrote a great deal, including detective fiction, a gothic thriller “of devilry, seduction, and hashish” and stories about “ghosts, suicides, and kidnapping.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s pop-reggaeton seduction had already found an enormous audience among Latin music fans when Bieber jumped on a remix after hearing the song in a Colombian nightclub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
In the meantime, an ever-expanding audience found their own lives in her songs: in their desires, jealousy, doubts, seductions, setbacks and triumphs, and in their leisurely grooves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
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
There have been notable exceptions to the statement that capitalists do not yield to the seductions of these men, but recurrences are liable to be few.
From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. Hoskin
