| When it comes to the front page, newspapers favor plain language, in part to protect the readers from the seductions of rhetoric, of art. |
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| This led to flirtatious, prolonged seductions and the delicious build-up of anticipation and desire. |
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| Children were illegitimate for any number of reasons, including rapes, seductions, adultery, failed courtships, and long-term cohabitation. |
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| Thomas Jefferson is a particularly interesting example of someone who partially resisted its seductions. |
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| Understandably, we attempt to teach our children to value history over the easy seductions of space. |
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| Immune to the seductions of fashion, Brookner's preoccupations have nonetheless begun to parallel contemporary anxieties. |
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| From my earliest youth, I resisted the helpful attempts of family and friends to introduce me to the seductions of opera. |
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| French humanists eloquently cautioned us about the seductions of technologism. |
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| I think it will be hard for the newcomer to avoid the seductions of the center. |
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| It is an old-fashioned, admirably reticent film that succeeds not through daring but by avoiding the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. |
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| Yet despite the seductions of his oratorical style, he frets about losing his audience. |
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| In hard-edged artificial light, the dancers enact feverish beach parties, orgies, murders, and seductions. |
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| Still a teenager, Lou became infatuated with her newfound benefactor and yielded to his seductions. |
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| Freud at first accepted many of the experiences reported by his young, impressionable patients as actual seductions. |
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| I too, much to my chagrin, fell prey to the seductions of the city. |
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| He is an honest man despite the considerable seductions of his vocation. |
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| What goes beyond the cataloguing of the hidden structures, the invisible powers, seductions, and numerous offenses we have been preoccupied with for so long? |
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| Pizzetti is the artist who has rejected the volatile and ephemeral seductions of fashion and the servitude to others by preferring loyalty to himself. |
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| Kramer and Billy are kindred spirits, but Kramer accuses Billy of being blinded by the seductions of capitalism. |
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| While Lippi was completing the Strozzi commission, Florentines were listening to Savonarola inveighing against the deceitful seductions of modern painters. |
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| That iconoclastic culture rejects the seductions of the representational. |
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| In 2001 Black renounced citizenship of his native home in exchange for the seductions of the British House of Lords. |
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| Beauty is a natural gift, but seductions is a weapon that anybody can learn to se. |
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| I warn you young men and women, do not listen to what they are saying, do not listen to the seductions of Lord Woolton. |
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| His patients seemed to recall actual experiences of early seductions, often incestuous in nature. |
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| The minds of men, women and children are constantly bombarded by images, messages, suggestions, seductions. |
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| The temptation to exoticize is a danger for the writer in English, whose work must guard against the seductions of marketability. |
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| It follows that the old man, affected by the evil seductions of this world, must be overcome. |
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| Because people like it, and there are still sufficient numbers of people who resist the seductions of so-called tastemakers to make a viable market for it. |
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| Now, young people were jamming dance halls, nightclubs and cabarets, all prime spots to escape for a few hours from parental control and enjoy the seductions of the dance floor. |
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| That the movie makes a nod to the vivid and enduring appeal to the young imagination of the literary, in spite of the stimulations and seductions of the screen, is part of its charm and its truth. |
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| The second movement suggests the ghost's seductions to keep his witches. |
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| This war has also demonstrated that the newly independent democracies are still vulnerable to the threats and seductions build by external forces in order to impose once again geopolitical interests. |
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| Of course, there are far worse things in nationalism's repertoire than garden-variety xenophobia and a bit of euroscepticism. Nationalism, like war, has its seductions. |
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| Working under pressing deadlines, in a whirlwind of meetings, seductions, and dangers of Byzantine strangeness, Michelangelo, the man of the Renaissance, sketches a sublime but foiled meeting with the Orient. |
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| And such devotion must indeed have been great to have triumphed finally even in those societies least prepared for the struggle over the seductions of automatism and the lure of mechanised barbarism. |
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| Only the «meek», the «impoverished» of heart and those «deaf» to the seductions of the world will hear the voices that will song «Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace for those he favours. |
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|  Only the «meek», the «impoverished» of heart and those «deaf» to the seductions of the world will hear the voices that will song «Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace for those he favours. |
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| According to Strauss, the clandestine society of men he describes here take wagers in clubs and bars throughout the Western world over just who can chalk up the most Casanova-like quantities of pickups and seductions. |
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| Harrower is as interested in the seductions of power as in its coercions. |
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