Sentence examples for effort to seduce from inspiring English sources

And that treacly, overproduced effort to seduce viewers was more repellent than the show itself is likely to be.

A recent inflammatory campaign by Hindu-­nationalist types claimed that Muslim men engage in "love jihad", an effort to seduce and convert Hindu women.

Nonetheless, Civ 5 seems to be trying to streamline and smooth some of the complications that have beset the series in the past in an apparent effort to seduce a new generation of fans.

At first he uses the repetitious cycle to his advantage, learning to play the piano and to speak French in an effort to seduce his producer, played by Andie MacDowell.

Like Franco Jacassi's Vintage Delirium, Spazio Rossana Orlandi makes little effort to seduce the average consumer, and to me this reluctance has come to seem a truly Milanese trait.

The offer of an E-Class Mercedes to every minister in the month-old power-sharing government was vintage Mugabe, an effort to seduce his political enemies with the lavish perks he has long bestowed on loyalists.

But Crown made strenuous efforts to seduce potential customers with lavish tastings and other jolly social events.

Seligman likens Joe's efforts to seduce men to, of all things, fly-fishing, as it is described in Izaak Walton's classic text, "The Compleat Angler" (1653).

That figure has now passed 15%.The card companies' efforts to seduce customers with perfectly matched cards have also reached their limits.

The first half, portraying Edward's efforts to seduce the wife of a loyal friend and to force her mother to help him, is done well.

In the conceit of the show, she also has strict parents, who thwart her efforts to seduce a guy named Clay.