temptress
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And in an era where women were forced into gendered stereotypes – housewife, temptress, fallen woman, mixed-up girl – she satirised and sent up those roles, playing them to the hilt while emphasising her strength.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Before D’Angelo’s encore, a glowing account of the Dvorak chestnut “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” she closed the written program with Clara Schumann’s “Lorelei,” about that folkloric temptress.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
Making good on her name, Eve is a temptress, but the forbidden knowledge she dangles is that female liberation is part of civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Demetriou’s vacillation between annoyed den mother and over-the-top temptress provides a wonderful balance to Berry’s consistently melodramatic Lazlo, who takes bestial form by bellowing out, “baaaaAAAAT” even though this is obviously a highly unnecessary flourish..
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2019
“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Through their story, Miller and Wheeler aim to re-shape the legend of King Arthur by placing women in positions of power as opposed to relegating them to mere objects of desire or sinister temptresses.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2020
Danielle Darrieux, a luminous beauty of French cinema whose portrayals of wistful ingenues, romantic temptresses and tragic adulteresses spanned more than eight decades, died Oct.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2017
The Flower Maidens are not the traditional temptresses, but a crowd of winsome girls in flower-print frocks, playing with jump-ropes and dolls.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2015
Of all the temptresses in Dark Shadows, Green most acutely understands how to play for both humor and horror.
From Time ● May 10, 2012
Odysseus filled the ears of his crews with wax, bidding them to tie him to the mast of his ship and to row hard past the temptresses in spite of his strugglings.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
