As core members of Al Qaeda were killed, the danger shifted to terrorists who were less organized and more difficult to detect, making the use of the N.S.A.'s powerful surveillance tools even more seductive.
The game was faster and more beautiful while I was on cocaine, and breaking laws seemed even more seductive.
Every painting, in fact, conveys unguarded intimacy, as well as an obsessive fastidiousness that makes them even more seductive, and surreal.
The whole private jet thing is even more seductive for elected officials than the rest of us because A) politicians always think their time is exceedingly valuable, and B) they tend to be very tall.
Mischief is usually more attractive to a child than virtue, if only because virtue is what grownups expect of him, and when mischief can be pursued with others, as part of a recognized "movement," it becomes even more seductive.
President Bartlet was still the Bartlet we worshipped at the time and the show espoused a version of America that is even more seductive now, in the era of Trump, than it was back then.
Even more seductive than Arlen's suggestive dialogue, his one-night stands in Mayfair lodgings, his roguish intimations of clubland naughtiness, were the novels of Ronald Firbank (1886-1926), whose impact on the mainstream writers of the 1920s and 1930s was out of all proportion to their meagre sales.
It was at that stage I realised it was easier and more seductive to look at the photograph.
