| 单词 | temptress |
| 例句 | “And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Her reputation as a foreign temptress was well established; using her powers to bring about the general’s destruction came as no surprise. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Woman is temptress. My wife leave me. I know.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The action involves three muses — a chain-smoking temptress, an overheated diva and a fanciful kook — who each capture the attention of our hero. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z This Italian temptress was founded in Paris a century ago, and its picnic quotient cannot be overstated. I remember Paris and I'm not alone. Share your 2-euros? 2011-02-07T17:21:04Z Half a century before the current revolution on sexual transgressions, the late Ms. Brown spurred her own revolution, coaching women on how to be temptresses at the office. The Grande Dame of Documentary is Leaving Her Home at HBO 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z She may not fit the cliché of an aggressive temptress, but her earnest, unsmiling presence is unsettling. Movie Review: ‘Breathe In,’ a Tense Marital Drama 2014-03-27T22:54:05Z Suitably rejuvenated, the young Faust ardently pursues Greta only to lose her while cavorting with Walpurgisnacht temptresses and be left lamenting life's lost chances. Faust 2010-10-03T20:30:00Z Of all the temptresses in Dark Shadows, Green most acutely understands how to play for both humor and horror. Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over 2012-05-10T10:45:28Z The one surviving painting of her highlights the temptress. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark: Office worker Lise "leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime". Dame Muriel up for 'lost' Booker 2010-03-25T14:17:00Z Ms. Stewart, who was later a television game show hostess, appeared in 18 movies in the ’50s, inspiring reviews that described her as “slinky,” “voluptuous” and “a temptress.” Elaine Stewart, Sultry 1950s Actress, Dies at 81 2011-06-28T23:49:25Z In the film's Chinese-box of a plot, Czyzewska was a Spanish temptress, one of the many characters whom a Belgian army officer meets on his fantastic journey. Elzbieta Czyzewska obituary 2010-07-07T17:07:00Z The Flower Maidens are not the traditional temptresses, but a crowd of winsome girls in flower-print frocks, playing with jump-ropes and dolls. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z She is the older woman who thinks that some men may be rapists, but also that some women are temptresses. “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Reviewed: Meryl, Meryl, Meryl 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Closer to home, there's Anna Calvi, more of a classic temptress than a witch, but still a nocturnal operator. Esben and the Witch; Trophy Wife ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:35Z The cast is excellent, especially the stunning soprano Marlis Petersen in her signature role as Lulu, a young woman who emerges here as both temptress and victim. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z We’ll see more, no doubt, of Jed in down-to-earth mode — or at least I hope we will, as the ethereal temptress act is getting tiresome. ‘The Night Manager’ Season 1, Episode 3: What Makes a Villain Charming? 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Now she also tackles a role she was surely born to play, the great temptress of the Nile. Theatre picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z Women's status as stumbling blocks to purity — or even as intentional temptresses — is only amplified in Bible studies that are targeted at Evangelical men. How Evangelicalism's racist roots and purity culture teachings catalyzed the Atlanta killings 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z But, judging by the creative team being lined up by Sony Pictures, Jolie's 3D outing in the royal barge of beaten gold is set to rip up all our other assumptions about the fabled temptress. Angelina Jolie's Cleopatra will show Egypt's queen as more than a sex kitten 2011-01-09T00:06:49Z Unusually, it's easier to identify with her Black Swan than her White, and the occasionally erratic edge of her performance as the dark-side temptress lends it an immediacy which is not to be found elsewhere. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:59Z Sure, a hard-bodied temptress must work out to stay fit but, as it turns out, only up to a certain point. 2010-01-23T05:17:00Z There was a point, after Casino Royale, when she could have relocated to LA and become Hollywood's French temptress of choice. 'Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes' 2010-04-02T12:17:00Z And late in the evening, he delivered new material about make-out burps, temptress nannies and Linux-based operating systems at the stand-up comedy workshop he hosts in the back of a Hollywood comics store. Chris Hardwick, King of the Nerds, Is Expanding His Empire 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z He added that "the band is top-notch" and that Samantha Barks was "almost implausibly well built as a blonde temptress" in both storylines. City of Angels returns to London 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Rather than considering the power relationships condensed in such exchanges, the court tacitly identifies the woman as the temptress. Dental nurse sacked for being irresistible – all perfectly legal in Iowa 2012-12-27T17:19:00Z Gentile characters are usually flat and stock — the cruel landlord, the boorish peasant — and the defining characteristic of the gentile female is a straightforward binary: either she is a temptress or she is not. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z At one point, Aaron looked and sounded like a beggar, his voice sounded like a screechy plea, not unlike Jimmy Swaggart when he was begging for forgiveness for his transgressions with those wicked temptress hookers. "American Idol" recap: Crystal Bowersox saves 2010-04-21T13:22:00Z Pretty soon it was clear that my journey from sheltered Irish country girl to French temptress would have a long way to go. Caitriona Balfe: The First Time I Left Home (and Fell in Love) 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In much of popular culture, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as a temptress who found piety after Jesus delivered her from a stoning. ‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: A Revision in Need of Revision 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Loveliness, in fiction, typically graces a pair of archetypes: the angel and the temptress. Perspective | Thank you, Gillian Flynn for giving women permission to be bad 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Thomas defended his choice of subject, noting that "no one goes to the opera to judge Carmen or Salome" - operatic heroines who could be pigeonholed as a two-timing Gypsy and a homicidal temptress. Anna Nicole Smith subject of provocative new opera 2011-02-16T17:19:10Z With his wife in the hotel nursing a sunburn, Lenny falls instantly for a blonde Midwestern temptress named Kelly, played by Cybill Shepherd as the ultimate shiksa goddess. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z And the overwhelming whiteness of inner-city Gotham, as well as that fact that all the women bar Pfeiffer are left to wallow in pitiful temptress roles, is something that has been rectified by their progenies. 'I'm sucking up your IQ!': what 90s Batman teaches us 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Demetriou’s vacillation between annoyed den mother and over-the-top temptress provides a wonderful balance to Berry’s consistently melodramatic Lazlo, who takes bestial form by bellowing out, “baaaaAAAAT” even though this is obviously a highly unnecessary flourish.. Smart Watch: "What We Do In the Shadows" is a comedy with bite 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Hadn't the trailers promised a veritable Valhalla of vampires, werewolves, fanged temptresses and an exploration of what it means to live for ever? Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Mr. Nelsons paced the music in halting, cagey spurts, suggesting that Salome was a calculating temptress. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z This stereotype sees Asian women as deceitful and evil temptresses. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z She nonetheless made her mark, particularly in this film and as a sparkling temptress in Vincente Minnelli's "Cabin in the Sky." Lena Horne and "Stormy Weather" 2010-05-10T16:48:00Z If we are framed as temptresses, our only power is sex. Mike Pence’s Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z You suspect that her character, part temptress, part old-fashioned girl, has been just as carefully crafted, especially when she talks about love. Dita Von Teese, From Burlesque to a Brand 2012-11-24T00:05:20Z He was merely a square stick-in-the-mud who couldn’t deal with Batman doing the Batusi or falling for the lures of Catwoman or whatever nubile mod temptress who was thrown in his path that week. The Next Batman: Is John Blake the New Bruce Wayne? 2012-07-25T12:00:15Z For the men in Goffin lyrics, women were often precocious temptresses: little girls with dangerous charms. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Woman as temptress, woman as unreliable, woman as “unclean.” The religious have gone insane: The separation of church and state — and Scalia from his mind 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z It takes care to counteract the novelty of its gender adjustment to the obsessed-lover formula — he’s a dude instead of a temptress! — by being utterly routine in other respects. ‘The Boy Next Door’ Stars Jennifer Lopez 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Goeldner also caught the sinister inflection of the biblical temptress’s music. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z According to Flavorwire’s Tom Hawking, women are depicted as “identikit temptress/femme fatale types who exist for the temptation of straight men.” “Both-sexual” men on TV can save lives: How “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is smashing the “evil bi guy” myth 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The movie, which features Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli as a temptress working for the hit team, is a "Zionist conspiracy" to defame al-Mabhouh, said a cousin, Ahmed, who lives in Gaza. Family of Hamas figure seeks to block Israel movie 2012-05-20T17:01:04Z He obscured the extent to which he “strip-mined” her story; he flattened her into a temptress. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z For Hayworth “Gilda” was her first major dramatic role and a major change in image: the all-American girl had now become a temptress, cynically using her charms to lead men astray. DVDs: That Postwar Shimmy-Shake 2011-01-09T02:23:01Z Oh, Imelda, you temptress, why did I stay away from you so long? Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Uta Levka plays the Gypsy temptress who, much to the distress of the policeman who loves her, sleeps her way to the top of the social ladder in 1960s Spain. ‘This Is Softcore,’ Plays at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Another character — perhaps the most memorable of all — is a temptress who goes by the name Juliette. 'Sacr? Bleu': the color of creativity 2012-04-03T23:34:07Z Ms. Wilson, 36, is perhaps best known to Americans as Alison, the alternately spirited and brooding temptress of “The Affair,” which wrapped its fourth season, her last, on Showtime this month. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Through their story, Miller and Wheeler aim to re-shape the legend of King Arthur by placing women in positions of power as opposed to relegating them to mere objects of desire or sinister temptresses. Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The “Dating Naked” debut earlier this month featured a woman in her 30s stung when her chosen man was distracted by a younger, gorgeous temptress, an intriguing story for VH1’s female-dominated audience. Take off your clothes to make it in TV 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z A latter-day warrior is beguiled to his inevitable fate by, as her name suggests, a temptress in the mythic tradition. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z Depending on the source, she’s an otherworldly temptress or a stunning dynastic ruler. A valentine from "American Gods" goddess of love: Permission to own your power 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z People were already infuriated by the implication that women were temptresses and men were helpless walking hormones. Perspective | Hating on the Notre Dame mom’s wretched view of leggings takes the easy way out 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z He casts Cotillard, one of the foxiest actresses alive, as a smoldering temptress who embodies all the female, erotic energy absent from this universe, and then literally locks her in the basement. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z The composer was intrigued that the sirens of Circe, unlike other temptresses, lured sailors to their deaths through song. Review: For This Young Chorus, It’s Never Too Early for Six World Premieres 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Rockwell, always an adept comic, plays Doug’s metamorphosis lightly, and Ms. Wilde, for all her charms, refrains from portraying Elizabeth as a poisonous temptress. Movie Review: ‘Better Living Through Chemistry,’ or at Least Better Loving 2014-03-13T23:05:47Z It was rumored that in a scene in Act II, the Flower Maidens under the spell of the demonic sorcerer Klingsor are presented as temptresses in Islamic dress covering skimpy undergarments. Review: A Sublime and Provocative ‘Parsifal’ at Bayreuth 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z It may be worth noting that in his oeuvre, Cain tended to paint women as evil temptresses or control freaks. Is Mildred Pierce's daughter bratty beyond belief? 2011-04-04T09:05:00Z In every image, she embodies both the seductive temptress and the classic beauty; equal parts Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. What Happened to Vikki Dougan? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z But Ms. Miller, trying to play a college-age temptress, is up against the play’s weakest scenes. Theater Review: ?Just Sex? by Brandt Johnson at Theater for the New City 2012-04-09T20:45:32Z Ms. Stemme, singing the opera’s conflicted temptress with easy richness and pale mournfulness, is the rare Kundry who is more elegant than intense. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z A man faces a difficult choice: The woman who loves him but pressures him to marry, or the adventurous temptress with a jealous streak. Game On: 'Ms. Splosion Man' challenges; 'Catherine' puzzles 2011-08-16T22:38:04Z No, she changed it because the charts are only big enough for one Paloma, and because she "liked the idea of myself as a temptress". New band of the day ? Delilah (No 999) 2011-04-06T16:33:55Z Others are out of touch with contemporary culture, such as encountering “women as temptresses.” To Lead a Meaningful Life, Become Your Own Hero 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z One victim was a lying, cheating boyfriend, the other his temptress. For Norah Jones, “Little Broken Hearts” gives a lesson in making the most of a bad experience 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Beautiful and regal, she proved an assured actor, convincing both as cynical plotter and as commanding temptress. Not seen at Seattle Opera for nearly 60 years, ‘Samson and Delilah’ excites 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Suddenly, Veiga is perched on his shoulder, no longer a cold temptress but a kitten. Review | A new ballet tips ‘Evita’ Perón off her pedestal 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The rest is erotic psychological horror film history: The De Armas made her U.S. feature film debut as a scantily clad temptress in “Knock Knock,” having learned her dialogue phonetically. How the intensity of shooting 'Blonde' put Ana de Armas in the Marilyn Monroe mind-set 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z By the finale, he is sporting a varsity letterman sweater, and she has transformed into a temptress wearing skintight black pants, a black biker’s jacket and red stilettos. Olivia Newton-John, pop singer and ‘Grease’ star, dies at 73 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Making good on her name, Eve is a temptress, but the forbidden knowledge she dangles is that female liberation is part of civil rights. Review: At South Coast Repertory, 'Paris' aims to deliver what we sorely need: some laughs 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z He later directed her at the Met, where she sang the title role in a new staging of Bizet's Carmen, portraying the heroine as a "pouty teenager" rather than the sultry temptress of most productions. Opera singer Maria Ewing dies at 71 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z ‘Niagara’ Marilyn Monroe is a Technicolor temptress in this 1953 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway. Classic movies in SoCal: ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ ‘Die Hard,’ ‘A Christmas Story’ and more 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “It was so rarely about the men controlling their own desires, and so often about women not being temptresses,” Mr. Chu recalled. Atlanta Suspect’s Fixation on Sex Is Familiar Thorn for Evangelicals 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z More recently, an Asian woman has generally been portrayed in films as either “a manipulative, dragon lady temptress or the submissive, innocent ‘lotus blossom’ meant to please a man,” Balance said. Asian women say shootings point to relentless, racist tropes 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z As the reports repeated the phrase, Asian massage parlors, Asian women victims were rendered only as sex workers, or even immoral temptresses, devoid of humanity. Racist, colonialist and misogynist narrative abets violence against Asian women 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “Carmen, A Live Drive-In Opera” A humble Spanish soldier falls for a fiery temptress as Opera Santa Barbara stages a stripped-down, one-afternoon-only production of Bizet’s tragic romance. Drive-in comedy, drive-in opera, drive-through holiday lights. Are you sensing a trend? 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z "It's fun playing the temptress, because that's so not me," Ware laughs. How Jessie Ware's podcast made her music 'sexier' 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z It was typical for women to be seen as temptresses who corrupted male members, former members said. 'Hundreds' allege Jesus Army abuse 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But her defining film remains 1959’s “Pillow Talk,” with Rock Hudson, which sealed her fate as a coy but sophisticated temptress whose virtue could be unlocked only through proper channels. Doris Day: A guileless natural on screen and record, and a mystery even to her devotees 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z But the male figures in the Theranos narrative have a whole lot in common with men as #MeToo’s opponents often present them — hapless prey taken for a ride by opportunists or temptresses. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes defrauded investors. Why are we obsessed with her appearance? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The Theranos story resonates because it encapsulates enduring societal fears about dangerous temptresses. Elizabeth Holmes and her firm Theranos show why we must stop fetishising entrepreneurs | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Many members of the church, experts said, suffer from a medieval mind-set and consider the priests who commit abuse against nuns to be the victims of seductive temptresses. Sexual Abuse of Nuns: Longstanding Church Scandal Emerges From Shadows 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z It bends Bollywood’s horror genre, which typically depicts women as witches or lusty, evil temptresses. In India’s new hit film, men — not women — are afraid to roam the streets 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The origins of the name are said to be Greek, with possible meanings including "illustrious", "temptress" and "the bright one". Zara Tindall reveals new baby's name 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Women become threats, cast as callous temptresses for withholding sex from, in their perception, deserving men. How a masculine culture that favors sexual conquests gave us today’s “incels” 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z There’s a clear disdain for most of the characters, particularly the women who largely fall into stereotypical roles like nag, temptress or madwoman. All trick, no treat, 'Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween' is a shoddy, low-laugh outing 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Danielle Darrieux, a luminous beauty of French cinema whose portrayals of wistful ingenues, romantic temptresses and tragic adulteresses spanned more than eight decades, died Oct. Danielle Darrieux, luminous beauty of French cinema, dies at 100 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Regardless of what Swift does, she is accused of being a treacherous temptress. Taylor Swift isn’t the first snake woman. She’s fighting misogyny’s favourite myth | Brian O’Flynn 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes, temptress that I am, I even drink wine with them at dinner. Mike Pence won't dine alone with a woman who's not his wife. Is that sexist? 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z AUGUSTA, Ga. — When he climbed up the slope of the tee box it was his turn, so Jordan Spieth put his peg in the ground and surveyed the elusive little temptress before him. Perspective | For Jordan Spieth at the Masters, hole No. 12 is not just any par-3 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z JonBenét was simultaneously deified as a photogenic angel and vilified as a child temptress, and her parents were criticised for fetishising her looks, while the public and media did exactly the same thing themselves. JonBenét Ramsey: the brutal child murder that still haunts America 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Reviews on Amazon call her a “wanton temptress”. How bots ruined everything: from Drake to diets 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the hovering red Pokémon figure isn’t actually in the book store, but I still feel like an idiot standing outside peering through the phone’s camera with no idea how to capture the virtual temptress. Pulitzer Prize-winner Phil Kennicott’s Pokémon Go diary 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Bruno growled at her and called her a “tantalizing temptress,” and said the partner work was “outstanding.” 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Jodie Sweetin heads home, five celebs remain for semifinals He would continue his generous practices for the many years he would spend at the bar until he had the misfortune of buying a drink for one of the place’s most prominent temptresses. Sunny’s Bar, a Spiritual Holdout in Red Hook 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A feverish temptress – “Fire is running through my flesh,” she says – Ilona has been conducting an affair with Cooper, the Marxist poet. Review: Passions Ignite in ‘Lives of Reason’ at Two River Theater 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Don't let the habit fool you, she's a "Bad Sister" in this new thriller about a temptress who impersonates a nun. TV This Week, Jan. 3-9: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' and more 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Combined with assured handling, TT is a temptress. The New Audi TT Still a Fun Dash Down the Road 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Vienna-reared director, Billy Wilder—a Jew whose mother was murdered by the Nazis—confounded every expectation by favoring Dietrich’s morally ambiguous temptress over Jean Arthur’s shrilly all-American ingénue. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl’s Divided World 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Either way, the wicked temptress is now being “dealt with” by the internet, and can only save herself by chucking in her career and giving her life to protecting Zimbabwean lions from marauding dentists. What’s the free world come to when a man can’t make smutty jokes about his daughter? | Marina Hyde 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps more flatteringly, depending on your feelings about cows, the name "sirenia" derives from the mermaid temptresses that Odysseus tied himself to his ship to avoid. The Verge Review of Animals: the dugong 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Communism was surely the most powerful cross-border temptress undermining national allegiances in modern times. The Golden Age of Loyalty 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z I watch the second part of the “Male/Female” exposé of Tatyana, the village temptress. ‘Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Forget the Titian temptress for a while and ask who really got away with this. Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z "Surely the Bank's nonet of middle-aged men wouldn't consider frustrating the French temptress?" The top 10 business stories of 2012 2012-12-31T14:34:11Z Surely the Bank's nonet of middle-aged men wouldn't consider frustrating the French temptress? Dare nine men defy the siren call of Christine Lagarde? 2012-06-02T23:06:28Z A terse version in which the nun is temptress exists in Latin and evidently enjoyed a certain popularity: Nonna. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z His eyes were open, but because at his heart was a gnawing despair, he believed there was nothing to live for save what his temptress promised. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Fortunately, the approaching explosion, which would have been of a cataclysmal nature,—Stiffy was not a boy to do things by halves,—was averted by a change of demeanour on the part of the temptress. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Ms. Whitehead can clearly do many things well, but playing a smoldering temptress is not one of them. | New Jersey: A Review of ?Damn Yankees,? at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2012-03-17T00:50:11Z Then with enjoyment had come remorse, and he had torn himself away from the temptress and fled. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z Who set you on as decoy and temptress, and what reward did you receive? Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z Sooner or later the craving for a larger life would have forced her out to adventure with Rachel, but the temptress was suddenly removed. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z There was nothing of the stage-charmer about this woman, and Lady Kemsale thought she knew all about that class of temptress, for her own nephew had recently married one of them. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z She played the title role of the Biblical temptress, of course. Hop, Skip and a Jump: Remembering Hedy Lamar 2012-01-10T01:15:03.500Z Vidya Balan is terrific as Silk, who fires brazen zingers throughout “The Dirty Picture” with chutzpah that would have made 1930s Hollywood temptress Mae West proud. Bollywood’s ‘Dirty Picture’ Evokes Seductress Mae West: Review 2011-12-08T01:24:36Z It was the voice of the temptress—and Marion heeded it. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z And he fled away as from the City of Destruction, leaving the temptress startled and astonished. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z He lay in a fevered condition for three months, raving against the temptress. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z "If you fear my words, it proves the effect that they have upon you, and I have half conquered already," cried the temptress exultingly. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Paris, his Mecca, was first a task-mistress, then a temptress, finally a vampire. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z The section “America as the Seductive Female” offers fictionalized and true accounts of the writers confronting the country as a faithless temptress. Middle East: Travel Anthology Looks at Arab Views of U.S. 2011-04-20T18:24:49Z She was the temptress woman, who would, as her mother had done, enslave and then forsake. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z After that in many ways he was still pursued, and ever his reply was “Go your ways, temptress!” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z His cheeks burn--he has lost his last illusion--the whole vulgarity of the temptress to whom he had yielded is pitilessly exposed to him. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Tax or no tax, it cheers me up, temptress that you are, sweet Joscelyn. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z "Those hovering little temptresses, so seductive, and Parsifal, the chaste, in their midst!" Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Captain Walton kept watch upon his brother aide-de-camp within, and would not let him yield to the temptress. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z His daughter Margaret, of whom he thought so much, was a much more dangerous temptress than Mistress More, though of course she did not think of herself in any such role. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The new green logo is essentially Starbucks' representation of a female siren -- a half-human mythical temptress who led sailors to their deaths. Starbucks cuts name and "coffee" from logo 2011-01-06T00:38:31Z The new green logo amplifies the company's female siren symbol -- representing half-human mythical temptresses who led sailors to their deaths -- as Starbucks tries to build new billion-dollar brands sold outside its network of cafes. Starbucks cuts name, "coffee" from logo; stirs ire 2011-01-05T22:34:31Z What fun it is, in this fantasy about the national pastime, to watch the Devil scheme, a temptress vamp, an old man turn young and scrappy athletes reverse their fortunes. | Long Island: Playing Ball With the Devil in ?Damn Yankees? 2010-07-16T22:58:00Z Ms. Essaydi’s figure seems remote and unavailable to the viewer, unlike Ingres’s temptress. Art Review | New Jersey: Reviving the Exotic to Critique Exoticism 2010-03-06T00:33:00Z I have always wished to meet a living saint and play the temptress for a while. A Divided Heart and Other Stories He was a young man then, with hardly any knowledge of the world; she, a woman of twenty-eight, married for over five years, had enticed him, had been the temptress! Small Souls Sustained by his virtue and by his faith alone, he struggled against the temptress, not precisely of the kind referred to by Solomon, but still a dangerous one from the ranks of progress. The Progressionists, and Angela. "Is there nothing you would like for yourself, madam?" murmured the voice of the temptress. Nancy of Paradise Cottage It is not without interest to note the absence of woman in the lofty theme of Milton, saving only as she appears in the Puritanic conception of the temptress. Women of England Woman was the temptress most to be feared; the daughters of Eve were considered the most powerful instruments Satan had at his command. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Then, having gained “world-knowledge,” he sees into the deep abyss of this being full of guilt and penitence, and impetuously repulses the temptress. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians At that moment, when she was glowing with happiness, she became a most dangerous temptress. Absolution Maddened by the distance which his temptress kept, also goaded to it by the sorry state of his empire, Maximilian thought only of abdication. The Missourian It was but natural that, at a time when the social sin was the canker of society, woman should have been looked upon in the light of the temptress in Eden. Women of England My son, the sham goddess I warn thee to shun, Beware of the beautiful temptress, my son; Her blandishments fly,—or, despising the snare, Go laugh at the follies of Vanity Fair. London Lyrics I judge that ye will not be a temptress, but I give you warning I am no Sampson, in his weakness to a woman’s witchery, when it comes to my faith and my duty. Graham of Claverhouse She was the temptress who had led away the first man, and still continued her work of perdition; a frail creature but dangerous, mysteriously disturbing. The Truth About Woman Yet the temptress now found herself the harder to master. The Missourian He was continually making jests upon the daughters of Eve; these temptresses, these diabolical allies of the Serpent. A Romance of the West Indies She had softened many points in his character, he knew, and just now she was a temptress to him. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Suddenly, in one mad burst of understanding, he leaned over to his magnificent temptress. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 He soon has a falling out with his fellow-celibates, and succumbs to the fascinations of a fair young temptress. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Maximilian thought of that other empire, which that other temptress exacted of him. The Missourian His stern integrity, his sterling piety, and his moral principle, were gone forever; the temptress had triumphed and he was ruined. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston This is displayed in a boldly drawn picture; and then the poet, with the words Doth not Wisdom cry? suddenly turns round and presents 'Wisdom' as the temptress to good. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature In one second he had drawn his sword and stabbed his temptress to the heart. Border Ghost Stories Woman in modesty or in bursts of passion, which she deems spontaneous, unconsciously imitated her grandmothers, who had been temptresses with hypocritical modesty or frankly voluptuous, according to the epochs in which they lived. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Which same I did, and the temptress too. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 So the will, which had long paltered with the temptress, at last took the fatal step, and perpetrated the crime which could never be undone. John the Baptist Miss Pauline didn’t want to be coaxed, but Nancy was a rare temptress. Girls of the Forest He continued by indicating that this abandoned woman was a witch, and finally let the Duchess understand that, having triumphantly resisted the temptress's sinful wiles, he had sought and found strength in the Pietist movement. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Had she been temptress, devil, saint, there could have been but one answer from the throbbing heart and leaping pulse of manhood. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath This that bestial creature they described to me as some slim, fierce temptress of the forests? The Reckoning “If you think how to get by them, Herbert, you can,” urged the temptress. The Cricket Nay, then, thy mother Low singing enfolds thee all safe from the snare; Afar flit the Elf-babes ’mid gray, misty shadows, Afar flees the temptress with yellow-gold hair. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman He curses her, praying to God to save him from the temptress.—Henceforth he thinks only of Sulamith and invokes Heaven's benediction on her. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Then I went slowly back to where my temptress waited. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine He loved his wife, bitterly angry as he had been with her this evening, and prone as he was to fall under the spell of the fair siren who was now his temptress. Cruel As The Grave The temptress half reclined on the sofa, a miracle of seductive grace and voluptuous beauty. Edmond Dantès And parting, spread The silken hair about her little face, And kissed the temptress through the green-leaved space. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Crowley growled derogatory comments on her temptress qualities when he peered past the edge of his curtain in the morning and looked down on Latisan mounting into his jumper seat. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Ah! lonely soul, thou shalt not be left unaided to withstand the seductions of the temptress world; Jesus is with thee, thy Great-heart and Champion. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. Every man of the world can recall the cases where women have played the rôle of temptress, using their charms against unwilling victims, notably husbands of other women. Possessed And there was that shameless creature, that evil woman, that sinister temptress. A Book of Burlesques Quezox: Alas I know the temptress doth beguile; Hence sympathy doth plead for helping hand. 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts The temptress held the door open, and beckoned beguilingly. For the Sake of the School Nick's bribe was "art"—the strange temptress with whom he himself had been wrestling and over whom he had finally ventured to believe that wisdom and training had won a victory. The Tragic Muse Then you are nothing, less than nothing; you are the temptress, the mistress! Possessed Not only youth must be safeguarded, but also the "female," the untrustworthy one, the temptress. A Book of Prefaces She, that sad, broken, little temptress, was going to meet the fore-ordained future that lay before. Joyce of the North Woods But a saint can be a temptress as well as a sinner. Magic A Fantastic Comedy He stretched out for a long, slow pull, which brought him closely face to face with his temptress. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy This glorious young creature whose glances thrilled him, whose flaunted beauty maddened him, was not Penelope any more, but the other, Fauvette, the temptress, the wanton. Possessed Beauty, indeed, was but too often a snare for the unwary—temptresses, he had been told, were usually beautiful persons. The Miller Of Old Church Again she knocked, that poor little temptress in the dark. Joyce of the North Woods Life is worth living, says art, the beautiful temptress; life is worth knowing, says science. Homer and Classical Philology He had told her that she tempted him, and she stood before him now as a temptress. Phineas Finn The Irish Member He was ready to kill the temptress as he would a beautiful viper. The Black Douglas The temptress, never once doubting her power, smiled most bewitchingly, her hands eloquent. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West Then the temptress pleaded with him to go with her to Erech, where Anu and Ishtar had their temples, and the mighty Gilgamesh lived in his palace. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria They wanted food and rayment, so they took Religion for their temptress and their cook.— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Then they hae plenty o' books," continued the temptress, loth to give up and keen to draw as rosy a picture as possible, "and a braw hoose, an' a piano in it. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner But the temptress is not to be beaten thus. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Images of a beautiful temptress with peach-blossomed cheeks and stained hair? The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith Think of the theaters," went on the temptress, putting an arm around her neck, and ignoring the fact that caresses embarrassed Miss Lucinda almost to the point of tears; "think of it! Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories He might have been Adam, and she the original temptress. Nocturne The handsome flowers glowed about her bodiless head like giant butterflies, congruous jewels for such a temptress of such a frolic. White Shadows in the South Seas Woman was the arch temptress who by the natural forces of sex attraction, reinforced by her evil charms and incantations, made it so difficult to attain the celibate ideal. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Little temptress ... you were so anxious for me to love you last year.... V. V.'s Eyes Life was looked upon as a test-place, a thoroughfare to the heavenly Kingdom; earth, with its beauty and its appeal to the senses, as a temptress. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times To see, also, a uniformed woman flitting to and fro among that audience, whispering, exhorting, invoking—a temptress to Salvation, then to note the response and its manner that were stranger still. Regeneration He is the Mad Mullah of all the sex-antagonism that has ever troubled men since they began to think of woman as a temptress. Old and New Masters The Hebrew records begin with the story of Adam and Eve, in which Eve is stigmatized as the temptress. Primitive Love and Love-Stories They knew how much of the Devil a woman might have in her, and how irresistible a temptress she is; but they forgot, that, on this occasion, woman, not man, was tempted. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Comtesse," he said, and his eyes swam, "fiendish little temptress, put up that hair. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel They shed many tears of anguish over the faithlessness of husbands; tears of hatred over the viciousness of temptresses. The Man from Brodney's The lad, seeking the world through for his father, was preserved from the arts of the temptress by Mentor—Minerva in disguise. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Blessed, godlike words.You had done nobly had you struck me dead,Instead of striking me to life!—the temptress! Andromeda and Other Poems Oh Jeanette instead of being his temptress, try and be the angel that keeps his steps. Sowing and Reaping Fool that I was to listen to the voice of that temptress, who probably was not speaking the truth. The Arabian Nights He could say "No!" neither to man nor woman; borrower and temptress alike found him tender-minded and pliable. The Beautiful and Damned Arthur had been laid hands on by the temptress just before his maiden speech in Parliament, and had done no good ever since. The Coryston Family A Novel Mr. Groom was young, and the temptress, if younger, was skilled in wiles. A Little Bush Maid Maria presented him to Noemi, and he blushed again on recognising the woman he had mistaken for Benedetto's temptress. The Saint Odysseus filled the ears of his crews with wax, bidding them to tie him to the mast of his ship and to row hard past the temptresses in spite of his strugglings. Authors of Greece So he alternated between lust and purity, between the foul kisses of the temptress at his side and the warnings of the prophet in his dungeon. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark There is not only a revulsion of feeling from the evil thing done that was so tempting before, but there is a dreadful change in the voice of the temptress. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes In both cases a weak king is drawn in opposite directions by the stronger-willed temptress at his side, and by the stern ascetic from the desert. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII It was quite plain that he had been withstanding the temptress, only how long would the resistance have lasted? Modern Broods That secret I deemed locked in my own breast, and in that of one besides—the temptress, the partaker of my guilt. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Dido quickly emerges from the role of a temptress designed as a last snare to trap the hero, and becomes a woman who reveals human laws paramount even to divine ordinance. Vergil A Biography A girl whom his brother had confided to him, whom he had brought up like a good father, and who was now—this temptress of twenty-five—a woman in her supreme omnipotence! Doctor Pascal And before him arose, too, the image of Seraphine, the temptress, opening her perfumed arms to him and carrying him off to the same existence of pleasure and baseness which the others led. Fruitfulness Elenko should certainly have been at ease; no temptress, however enterprising, could well be spreading her nets for an Antony three hundred years old. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales You have taken my husband, my beloved son, and left me with his temptress.� Highland Ballad Deep down in his mind lurked the disquieting suspicion that they were conniving to get the better of the lovely temptress by some sly and secret bit of strategy. The Prince of Graustark "Leave me and seek the Saxon witch, Ulrica, who was my temptress; let her, as well as I, taste the tortures which anticipate hell." The Junior Classics — Volume 5 "He's fled like Joseph," said Thyrsis—"leaving his cloak in the hands of the temptress!" Love's Pilgrimage His indignation was not lessened by the behaviour of the temptress, who, instead of fawning upon him for his bravery, crammed her handkerchief to her mouth and giggled foolishly. Many Cargoes "Aye, I found them, or rather they found me, and in my presence the goddess executed her decree upon her false priest and drove his temptress back to the world." She and Allan The temptress, who has followed him as a penitent, freed from a curse which had rested upon her for ages, goes to a blissful and eternal rest. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Anyhow, she would try to be good pal to him, and not a temptress. Winding Paths The temptress drew back a little, seated herself; yielded to troublous thought. Veranilda Conscious of his desire she was waking from odorous sleep, the temptress of his villanelle. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Professor von Schroeder points out that there is little doubt that, in certain earlier versions of the tale, the King's daughter herself played the role of temptress. From Ritual to Romance Now Assad rises superior to his grosser nature and drives the temptress away, thus performing the saving act demanded by Solomon. A Second Book of Operas Here it was that the universal temptress against whom he had been warned so urgently, put in a first appearance in the person of a pleasant and elderly lady who was seated alongside of him. Love Eternal Like St. Anthony, you have withstood the temptress by praying to our holy mother, the great French Republic! Louisa of Prussia and Her Times Missy watched the white fox furs, their light-minded wearer and her quarry all depart together; commiseration for the victim vied with resentment against the temptress. Missy The next time the father is absent the temptress, watching her opportunity, returns, and persuades the boy to accompany her to her 'Hermitage' which she assures him, is far more beautiful than his own. From Ritual to Romance An Old Hebrew warns against the temptress and Samson agonizingly invokes a veil over the beauty that has enchained him. A Second Book of Operas O God! how may I tell you how SHE came, The temptress of a hundred centuries, Yet fresh as April? The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 The temptress who drew him into evil was more than human, and her beauty was greater than the loveliness of the daughters of men. She As he counted out the money upon the little tray he looked up once, and saw the eyes in the long, pale face of the venerable temptress glitter while they watched. A Spirit in Prison Charles believed in temptresses, who are indeed the strong man's necessary complement, and having no sense of humour, he could not purge himself of the thought by a smile. Howards End Charles believed in temptresses, who are indeed the strong man's necessary complement, and having no sense of humour, he could not purge himself of the thought by a smile.� Howards End "Nay," I said, turning from that fair temptress, "the price is too heavy; I kiss no more." Cleopatra Her last act must be to pluck him from his temptress. The Path of the King The voice of Norah, the temptress, sounded close to my ear. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed If it was in back, it would show his innocence—he had turned to flee, and his temptress had clutched him so that the garment tore. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 She was listening to his proposals and continually refusing them with shakes of the head and that temptress's laughter which is peculiar to a voluptuous blonde. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola I will NOT go was my answer to the sweet temptress. The Professor |
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