They can be alluring and kind but also strong and badass so you better not double-cross them". Classical music is being played at Hull's railway station in a bid to reduce anti-social behaviour.
In Sequential Molecules, for instance, the flasks have a kind of shimmering perfection that results from careful staging: the photographer uses a smooth, black backdrop and skillful lighting to present each one in its most alluring form.
Under the alluring question "what kind of world do you want?", the discussion is immediately splintered into scores of technical questions and papers.
It's an alluring fantasy, the kind of thing you could imagine in a dusty smut book, or serving as winky fodder for escort agencies and strip clubs in their seasonal marketing.
A Canadian writer's lyrical, alluring novel, a kind of gloss on the life of the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron; the character at its heart, however, is a passionately self-educated housemaid from starving Ireland who serves as a model and as the prize in a family tug of war.
A dedicated word collector picks up one that's bad, but also kind of alluring.
"Niobe," heard on Tuesday evening at the Cutler Majestic Theater of Emerson College, is the kind of alluring obscurity that has long been this festival's calling card.
But Shields's book is not an alluring advertisement for the kind of writing (a mishmash of criticism and autobiography, "possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art") that he hopes will take the novel's place.
Baby Doll, it turns out, does a special kind of alluring dance – although we never see it, for every time she performs it, she's catapulted into an alternative universe in which she's a ninja warrior on a mission to find five vital objects.
