Even while he was still presiding on the TF1 news with his characteristic seductive lisp, "PPDA" was a great man for books.
One of his best-known works, the Portrait of the Empress Joséphine (1805), was influenced by Canova and Correggio and possesses his characteristic seductive mildness and the vaguely romantic, mysterious quality that he invested in his portraits of women.
The Blue Grotto seemed to us the least characteristic feature of this unexpectedly restful, seductive island.
Another critic, the arranger of Joplin's music for solo Guitar, wrote that Bethena displayed Joplin's characteristic syncopated style in a "seductive" manner even in the waltz's 3/4 time signature.
Olga Borodina applies a fantastic chest voice and her characteristic languor to a Carmen both earthy and seductive, and Neil Shicoff, a neurotic Don José, overcomes a bleaty quality on some French vowels to produce a strong Flower Song.
"If the work itself isn't extremely seductive, it doesn't matter how good [the designer's] personal characteristics are," says Timothy Gunn, fashion design department head at New York's Parsons School of Design, part of the New School University.
Musically, the outlook is better: Olga Borodina is her customary fine self, applying a fantastic chest voice and her characteristic languor in creating a Carmen both earthy and seductive.
Riesling fans will detect a familiar, seductive concentrated dried-apricot aroma and flavor; gewürztraminer followers will quickly notice the characteristic litchi notes.
A charming, even seductive, presence on stage or screen, she could be waspish and egotistical in private life, a characteristic that she was not concerned to conceal.
