Sentence examples for seduced 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".

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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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.

García alternates her account of the tyrant's days and nights with scenes depicting those of Goyo, a fellow octogenarian whose family was forced to flee when the government nationalized its holdings, and whose furious hatred of El Comandante stems not only from his stolen legacy but from a stolen love: a young girl seduced away from him by the lascivious leader (the novel's only misstep).

The profits it promised seduced investors from Oxbridge colleges to numerous MPs to members of the royal family.

Mr. Phillippe plays an earnest young geek seduced away from his friends' Internet start-up by a Bill Gates-like cyberguru (Mr. Robbins).

I expected to be bored by "Lady," his story of three old school pals on a hunting trip, but it seduced me from the start.

These paradoxes, and the extraordinarily conflicted feelings of admiration and dismay that Rimbaud's story can evoke, are at the center of a powerful mystique that has seduced readers from Marcel Proust to Patti Smith.