Yet the music Mr Oliveira issued from São Paulo reconciled the two seductive moods sweeping through Brazilian society: sumptuous living and revolution, froth and fright, nylon strings and gunmetal drums.
Unlike Jacqueline Kennedy, who deliberately distanced herself from the matronly style of former first ladies, helping to conjure up the seductive visual mood of John F. Kennedy's Camelot, there is little hard evidence that Queen Elizabeth II consciously set about fashioning a "look".
Then they repeat the process, the orchestra scrunching and cavorting in elegant, seductive mayhem, a mood of crazed waltz in the air and sinister expectation.
The album's qualities are variable, of course, even if smoothed over by an utterly seductive continuity of mood (a Time Out review of Pink Moon, the third album, made mention of "Nick Drake's exquisite 3am introspections", which is one way of putting it, I suppose).
It had a seductive aesthetic and a mood that just made you want to keep rewatching it and trying, somehow but mostly through wearing a scorpion-motif jacket to emulate some of Ryan Gosling's Steve McQueen-cool.
You heard the soundtrack, you bought the clothes, it had a seductive aesthetic and a mood that just made you want to keep rewatching it and trying, somehow but mostly through wearing a scorpion-motif jacket to emulate some of Ryan Gosling's Steve McQueen-cool.
From this twilight existence – life in Scarborough was "like a Coen brothers movie", he told the New York Times – came songs, fragments of songs or just moods of seductive emptiness.
Lampedusa's irresistible creation, the Prince of Salina, a physical giant of a man who unconsciously bends cutlery and crushes ornaments when he is in a dark mood, is a Prince as seductive as Machiavelli's.
Mepkin's mood of higher purpose is so seductive that people step forward to help and go away feeling as if they got the better part of the bargain.
He is seductive and subversive in way meant to match the mood of the play, a work that is," Mr. Mizrahi asserted, "the father of punk, the father of rebellion, the father of rock music".
