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The seductiveness of just walking away, the freedom of a clean break.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

For all the intense physicality of his performance, Pope does much of his acting with his eyes, which can signal fear and anxiety one moment and radiate a defiant seductiveness the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

This is the seductiveness of Kline’s work on climate change: whether or not countries meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, whether global warming can be held below the threshold, some degree of change is inevitable.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Costa-Jackson goes for a broadly comic and oddly shrewish Musetta, setting aside charm and seductiveness in a role that is set up to walk off with the show in her pocket and often does.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Hie word was freighted with such seductiveness that Kaede picked up the goblet without hesitation.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo