sirenic

Certainly he has succeeded in elevating Miss Gardner to the status of a first-magnitude star as the sirenic femme fatale who is the picture’s heroine, while he has also provided James Mason with one of his best latter-day characters.

It’s sirenic, a call to blindness, a “happy” filter placed on a world that is often good but frequently not.

One instinctively pictures a svelte form, a "face that launched a thousand ships," and all the rest of the sirenic paraphernalia that instinctively attach themselves to one's mental vision of a wholesale fracturer of hearts.

One has heard this yarn of a “sirenic cry” before, of other species, for it is a very common myth.

It causes the naturalist much amusement to watch the habits of this pretty little Owl, that, perched perfectly motionless on a branch, utters such a sirenic cry as to attract little birds in great numbers.