Sentence examples for tale of seduction from inspiring English sources

"Entertaining Mr. Sloane," a tale of seduction and sibling rivalry by Joe Orton, opens Nov. 15.

Like addicts confessing for the first time to a lifelong habit, men offer tale after tale of seduction and disaster.

Suggested by MadelaineFungDuLac This elaborate painting, depicting extravagant-looking biblical figures Herod and Salome, tells a tale of seduction and desire.

Pickett's song was a tale of seduction, of a couple waiting for a time when they could be alone, of eyes twinkling, love shining, of all the things that could be done in that darkened time.

The music offered a deadpan female voice telling a tale of seduction while the dancers told Mr. Petronio's tale of kinetic drama, their limbs whiplashing through space, their bodies curving sculpturally in Ken Tabachnik's sea-and-sky lighting.

The most literary novelists respected the engrossing powers of plot: even George Eliot's Middlemarch has at its heart a secret tale of seduction, larceny and hidden identity waiting to be uncovered.

Romance readers tend to be women ages 31 to 49 who are — contrary to the popular image of Miss Lonelyhearts living vicariously through fictional tales of seduction — in a romantic relationship, according to the writers group.

However, The Mark Steel Lecture this week (Radio 7 | Listen on iPlayer) provided a comic insight into the poet's life that goes beyond the well known tales of seduction and incest.

Where Clark punctuates his diaries with tales of seduction, Mullin records his struggles on behalf of asylum-seekers, his compassion for starving Africans, and his progress in extirpating masonic secrecy and MPs' September holidays.

MYKONOS -- The legends of Mykonos begin with tales of seduction and oblivion.

This time the Brooklyn troupe takes on the gothic parlor tale, enlivening a story of seduction and abandonment with postmodern trappings (multiple narrators, sonic manipulations), as well as a séance, a jamboree and a Punch-and-Judy show.