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Expertly disguising a reckless approach as “playing hard,” he will seduce his peers, who hold all the power in this league, into ignoring reality and hinging their hearts onto his past.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023

A commiseration-and-karaoke-filled friendship unfolds between Emma and Peter, prompting some mutually beneficial scheming to break up their exes’ new relationships: Peter will pull Noah back into bachelorhood and Emma will seduce Logan.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

Its slinky songs will seduce an audience in nothing flat, and its story, about the world slipping into brutality while people aren’t paying attention, bears perpetual repeating.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2016

Photograph: Images/REX Shutterstock Zev Eisenberg, half of the prominent house and techno DJ duo Wolf + Lamb, is more skeptical that Flash Factory will seduce electro fans to ever-gentrifying Chelsea.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2016

Such straws indicate nothing more than that a Circus or a Wild West Show will seduce to Madison Square Garden an audience that would fill a theatre for a month.

From The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 by Lewis, Alfred Henry