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
How do you resist the seduction of a system that sounds like it knows everything?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
That these romances represent consideration as the ultimate seduction makes them not merely release valves, but emotionally liberating escapes.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026
This is not about seduction, he has to see that.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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
To that end, Bradford’s paintings are flirtations, seductions, an assertion of his right to hold something in reserve even as he invites his audience to participate in a conversation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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
On the one hand, it was assailed by the material seductions of heathenism and the terrors of ruthless persecution.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
