On the negative side, it shows the seduction of ideas about progress which have nothing to do with the theory of evolution.
David Kuo, former Deputy Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, has just come out with a book, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, showing what suckers conservative voters have been; in private, he writes, Republicans in the Bush administration wanted their votes and had no interest in leading a new Great Awakening.
There was nothing in his manner of seduction, no show of desire at all; what he offered was a transaction, and again he showed no disappointment when reflexively and without hesitation I said no to him.
Not long afterward Mr. Sharma showed up at a rehearsal in New Delhi of the "Manganiyar Seduction," a theater show with roughly 40 Manganiyars that was about to go on tour outside India.
Note, however, that Cher's seduction techniques – showing skin, attempting to "have something baking" when a date comes round – don't work.
It is at its best and funniest when showing how the language of seduction can be reappropriated by women.
The opening leather pieces, including a bustier shown with just heels, promised seduction, as did the models' red mouths and leatherbound topknots.
By romanticising Kinsey as the passive object of a seduction, rather than showing him as a lurker in a public lavatory, the movie makes him more straightforwardly sympathetic.
We were not only watching Don sleepwalk through another seduction scenario, then; the show was also getting meta, and thus a bit wearying.
A swimming pool montage shows the same idealised pseudo-romantic seduction over and over.
