In 1861, the idea of secession had been seductive.
It must indeed have been seductive: Digby was a great entertainer, and it was always full -- with a flow of visitors (though there is no record that Digby's English family ever visited her in the Orient), friends, family -- on Medjuel's side -- and members of his tribe, who used the house for their city breaks.
The move away from a realistic focus on scarcity and productivity/added value and towards the virtualised economy of money transactions has been deeply seductive, and, over a limited time frame, spectacularly successful in generating purchasing power.
Ordinary guys who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances like Fred/Bob, who in Mr. Linklater's film has been given seductive voice and corporeal outline by Keanu Reeves, an actor whose penchant for otherworldly types and excellent adventures make him well suited for vision quests like this one.
The entrance hall has been transformed into a seductive garden of the plants she is preparing for a forthcoming exhibition.
I have little doubt that the perspective of many evolutionary biologists and some biological anthropologists has been distorted by the seductive drama of "primitive human war".
His work has been described as both "seductive and degenerate" and his pieces include wood-cuts of himself, trousers dropped, against a wooden doll.
After all, Barack and Michelle Obama had their first date at the Art Institute of Chicago, and many an ode has been written on the seductive power of looking at great artworks.
But I can't help feeling that Wesker's metaphor for the dehumanising impact of industrialised labour has been turned, with its seductive waltz-time music, into a celebration of synchronised movement.
But for the majority of mobile applications continuously flooding the market as consumers drown in a sea of choices, going "mobile-first" has been and remains a seductive, risky approach.
