Sentence examples for attempt to seduce from inspiring English sources

Ovid, in Fasti, tells of Mars's attempt to seduce Minerva.

The war also intrudes on Ivory's attempt to seduce Caro.

The two women he sees make no attempt to seduce the eye.

Words always attempt to seduce, writes Wilson, who teaches English literature at Reading University in England.

Mr. Carter also depicts Proust's unsuccessful adolescent attempt to seduce a Mme.

But unlike earlier colourists such as Ernst Haas and Saul Leiter, Eggleston's images make little attempt to seduce the viewer.

But Sarah resists his attempts to seduce her.

Instead of bullying and scaring people, the prophets of energy technology are attempting to seduce them.

When Godiva attempts to seduce a young paramour, the exchange is painful: "He smiled.

Sartre became infatuated with Olga and spent two years attempting to seduce her.

In these stories, the protagonist often encounters a mystical figure who attempts to seduce the hero away from his path.