Martyn reminds us that Scott's account, however seductive, displayed little concern for accuracy.
But here's the case for Umbrella: it's an ebullient, seductive, virtuoso display of imaginative prose which, if you have the stamina, is truly mind-blowing.
As Joe, Mr. McGregor is seductive yet displays a chilling lack of emotion.
In 1,001 Nights, a fairy turns herself into a seductive lioness, displaying her disturbingly human breasts to lusty lions threatening the hero.
IN the last 20 years or so, "engage the public" has become one of the most common mantras of the museum business, an injunction to curators and designers to court their audiences with ever more seductive video displays, computer interactives and exhibition architecture.
It's a seductive, even imposing, display, whose command rushes the audience swiftly past any ideas.
Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.
What it appears to be is a meeting of two porn-film actors waiting to get their call to perform, and while it displays a seductive, ominous style (and some witty prose), a manic, overdone performance by Patch Darragh gets in the way.
Here he talks on video to The Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg, displaying his seductive blunt-arrow-refined-bowman paradoxes to the last, "I'm dying … we all are.
