Rejecting the seductive attractions of Venetian painting with its lustrous colour and vibrant brushwork he adopted instead a more severe and cerebral style that emphasized clearly delineated and modelled forms and cold, pure colours.
It's a dangerous and unnerving movie because, while they are manifestly defending civilised values, Fincher and company involve us at a visceral level in the seductive attractions of what the film attacks.
Another cruel and melodramatic story: A hunchback in a royal court tries to save his daughter from the overwhelming attractions of a seductive and handsome duke.
Mr. Mendelsohn's ability to evoke a child's-eye view of a suburban environment is the most seductive element in a movie whose primary attraction is an atmosphere so heady that you can almost taste it.
The physicist Freeman Dyson, who knew the major players on the Manhattan Project, has described in vivid terms the fatal attraction of the bomb, the seductive sense it gave its makers of the infinite powers at their command.
In these circumstances, who can be surprised that the attractions of easy solutions are more seductive than tough ones, or that popularity is hard to come by.
About a performance at her art school graduation: "Exciting, enticing and exclusive, the event challenged the viewer to confront their parallel feelings of attraction and repulsion when faced with this seductive spectacle".
We conclude that the attraction of the term "care pathway" is seductive, but caution is needed in taking shared understandings for granted.
Delight is not the watchword of this latest revival, although you might be led into thinking so by the advertising campaign that features the evening's seductive stars -- Alan Cumming, Jennifer Ehle and Dominic West -- looking drunk on sexual attraction and attractiveness.
The general theme that runs through most, if not all, of Helmholtz's work may be traced to his rejection of Nature philosophy, and the violence of his rejection of this seductive view of the world may well indicate the early attraction it had for him.
