seductiveness

"But it was never completely out of hearing, and soon it was to grow so loud that I would not be able to resist its seductiveness."

Khong devotes much of the narrative to showing the seductiveness of access to true wealth.

With breezy elegance and a seductiveness that Eileen can’t help but respond to, she flatters someone who’s never before drawn anyone’s attention, let alone affection.

But she also captures the seductiveness of the subcultures Alike begins to explore, and the alternative they present: the choice to live one’s truth, with no apologies.

The fatal seductiveness of narcissism; ambivalence about performing; the nature of reality — it’s all, ambitiously, here.