A paragraph later, she describes the second time they are together, and his simple, seductive question: "Would you let me blindfold you?" She agrees, and he does, with the scarf she dropped on the floor, The third time, she has to beg him to bring her to orgasm after he stops her, multiple times, before the brink.
One of literature's most seductive questions was asked by the Hungarian novelist Sandor Marai in "Embers," his exquisite novel of friendship and betrayal, published in Budapest in 1942, but not translated into English until 2001, 12 years after his death.
Subscription services (I'm up to four) compete for our undivided attention with their magnitude and features like autoplay, which can briskly carry us through hours of TV, from one seductive cliffhanger question to the next, and the next.
Although of course Sciolino couldn't have anticipated the current scandal, her inclusion of Strauss-Kahn in the category of "seductive" leaders raises questions about the distinction between "pleasurable" and "predatory".
She warns against the seductive tendency to turn the question of a creature's intelligence into one about how similar that creature is to humans.
January's AI film, "Ex Machina", started to ask whether a robot could have human feelings, but it soon got sidetracked by the question of how seductive a robot might be if she had the physique of a fashion model.
The knotty question raised by our seductive, if not always likeable, narrator-cum-heroine is how much of this seemingly spontaneous outpouring is true.
Another unanswered question is what this seductive scent actually smells like.
In their influential, highly seductive texts, there is rarely any mention of questions of power and conflict, nor who or what will be driving the development.
It teaches that living with decline is not always a question of denial: decline can be a seductive choice.
No question, these kinds of deals are very seductive – and one is tempted to believe in them because one wants to believe in them.
