This seductive pattern certainly paid off with the finale, which may not have been a perfect episode of "Mad Men" but which had a genuinely original, resonant, and existentially brilliant ending, one that revolved around an image that was, at first sight, both cloying and inconceivable: Don Draper, blissed out at California's Esalen Institute, his legs crossed in yogic meditation, purring, "Om".
We are aware of a cool arranger behind the multitude of narrative voices, and a sardonic distance that immediately alerts the reader to the making of seductive patterns.
Mr. Johnson builds his narrative in "Chance Meeting" (2003) in layers of frosted Mylar, backed with colored cloth applied on edge, in sinuous, seductive patterns.
It systematizes the principles licensing acceptable inference, and helps to highlight at an abstract level seductive patterns of incorrect inference to be avoided by anyone with a primary interest in truth.
The resulting images are visually arresting, both easy and difficult to look at, seductive in their patterning, grotesque in their themes.
What is it that makes pattern so seductive?
They're beautiful, they're sensual, their rhythmic patterns are seductive, their textures and surfaces (I'm guessing here, because I have not seen originals) tactile and visually engaging... and so on.
We talk about patterns – and how "seductive" they can be, the way we turn our lives into narrative.
Moments matter: how seductive cigarette smoke can be, making patterns in the air as three people sat silently, their backs to the audience, before a blank white movie screen.
He resists the cryptographic approach exemplified by Helen Vendler, whose analyses of buried patterns he admits to finding seductive as well as exasperating, on the basis that such things aren't planned.
Here the cute touches are banished as the cast, including the ever seductive Rachel Lehrer, traverses the stage in elegant walking patterns that sum up a certain forbearance and self-control.
