seduction
noun
an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
seductions
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pluralof seduction.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The closest parallel in the opera to contemporary technical wizardry is Klingsor’s false garden; it feels rather perverse to extend those artificial seductions to the rest of a piece that’s condemning them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
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
We associate shrewdness with the kind of hat New wears and the kind of voice he has preserved against the seductions of politeness.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
