His voice is wonderful, an instrument of silky versatility; it's arresting to hear tales of strippers, jail and drug dealing, interspersed with the occasional bout of chest-beating angst, sung in such a seductive style.
Make no mistake, Black is a grand writer with a seductive style, and the dark, repressive world he makes of postwar Dublin — when there's no shortage of religious brothers to run the workhouses or nuns to operate the convent hospitals — goes a long way to explain why everyone in this morally claustrophobic world is so sex-mad.
Another critic, the arranger of Joplin's music for solo Guitar, wrote that Bethena displayed Joplin's characteristic syncopated style in a "seductive" manner even in the waltz's 3/4 time signature.
In fact, the rift between a tough-talking realist approach and a more seductive style that appeals to shared ideals was embodied in the battles between John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, who served uneasily together in Paris, displaying a complex mix of disdain and grudging admiration for each other, for much of the Revolutionary War.
Marked by pathbreaking investigation of long-term perspectives and by a vivid, seductive style, their explorations of social, cultural, and economic history proved broadly appealing.
There are modish art-house qualities in moderation, a pinch of indie-ness flattering for the Academy's amour propre, and a daring and seductive style that can plausibly showcase both middle-aged sexuality in menopausal revolt and the creamy yearnings of young love.
Like Beineix's Diva, this is archetypal Cinéma du Look, an exercise in pure, seductive, style.
Ahead of a May 1 gig alongside Ejeca at London's revered Corsica Studios, the guys have put together an ON DECK mix that showcases the seductive style that's made them a regular touring act not only in their home country of Germany, but throughout Europe and abroad.
Pajou's Psyche Abandoned (1791) offers an example of his graciously seductive style.
Unlike Barbara Kruger, who channels socially challenging aggression into a seductive graphic style, Ms. Piper has not developed a very compelling way with form, which makes it easier to shrug off her attempts at psychological manipulation.
His earliest works are characterized by a sensuality and colouristic richness indebted to Venetian art, especially to Titian, but by 1633 Poussin had repudiated this overtly seductive style in favour of a more rational and disciplined manner that owed much to the Classicism of Raphael and antiquity.
