Such an explanation was seductive, in that it cast Tesco (and any other languishing British supermarket chains) as justifiably aggrieved.
However seductive this is as explanation, as analysis it's off economically and it's off politically because it misses the point.
Resistance to this idea stems from the seductive reach of pop-psychology explanations about racism and racial identity.
Sandy Hook trutherism is unforgivable, but the essential fallacy on which it rests – that facts we can't account for must have a sinister explanation – is a widespread, human and dangerously seductive one.
Underneath that, one encounters another explanation: a seemingly endless economic boom, and the seductive effects of multi-coloured consumerism.
And maybe some of those people come to think that the explanation for America's deviance is that its road has been easier or that, and this is seductive, that its engine just has more horsepower.
Therefore, a potential explanation for the lack of a difference between conditions might be that there were no sufficiently interesting but seductive details in our narrative that could take attention away from the relevant knowledge.
She was totally seductive.
