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
After this first charged encounter, the initial gesture between them is not seduction.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 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
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
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
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
Time’s Up didn’t quite assert that women were immune to the seductions of power and money.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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
