Sentence examples similar to seduce from from inspiring English sources

He may have fancied himself as a great landscape painter seduced from his true bent by filthy ­lucre.

And while Johnson was seduced from time to time by toughness, that wasn't the main explanation for the escalation of the war in Vietnam.

Dunn ends "Sister Revolutions" by worrying that both contemporary America and France have lost energy and vigor, seduced "from participation in self-government" and "a dynamic political community" by an "obsession with acquisition and accumulation".

He has spent much time tracking down (and often seducing from of the hands of reluctant private owners) rarely seen works by the likes of Rothko, Duchamp and Rubens, and highlighting their connections to each other as well as to the written word.

It is the same story with the public, who were seduced from the start by the South African's winning ways and whose affection has deepened through the years as he celebrated his big-time successes (three major championship victories) and, perhaps more especially, endured his heart-breaking losses (too many to mention).

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How different from Mr. Martino's music and its instrument, where one is hard-pressed to tell the seducer from the seduced.

Male spiders from the Galiuro mountain range needed three times longer to seduce females from the Santa Rita mountains.

As a result, he finds it hard to sound convincing on the subject, and is also vulnerable to any attempt to seduce him from his chosen path.

It also characterized religion as "bad faith" or "the opiate of the people," designed to seduce them from efforts to build a good society through the hope of rewards in a life to come.

Moscow views attempts to seduce Ukraine from its sphere of influence much as the US might view a pro-Russian government in Mexico – or the installation of enemy missiles on a nearby island, like Cuba.