| 单词 | seduction |
| 例句 | And proceeded to read on into chapter seven, which details the seduction of a young man by a “strange woman.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a long story, and it does no credit to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies and foolishness, seduction and pursuit. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z So we were agreed; but late at night, lying in our tent, I heard Bono, outside, wrapped in a blanket, whisper his seductions to Nsia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Immediately Holmes deployed his tools of seduction, his soothing voice and touch and frank blue gaze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I planned a chart for seduction with surprise as my opening ploy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Alice Manfred swore she heard a complicated anger in it; something hostile that disguised itself as flourish and roaring seduction. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not considered how physical an act of seduction would be. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Even to have awakened Katharine, if he could have achieved it, would have been like a seduction, although she was his wife. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The duende, her head thrown back in throaty seduction, called to me through the poet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It becomes us to forget the seductions of Venus when Hygeia weeps for want. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Is this a diabolical scheme of seduction?” she asks. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But our talk had no room for literary seduction. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And so, without permanence, I have fallen into the routine of my incomplete seductions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What do I know about womanly charms or seduction? Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, since the Harlem idea of seduction is, to put it mildly, blunt, whatever these people saw in me merely confirmed my sense of my depravity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “And that, to me, is the terrible seduction of Dionysiac ritual. Hard for us to imagine. That fire of pure being.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This is not about seduction, he has to see that. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman’s family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Well, she gave in to the seductions of those rovers. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I accept it the way I accept my husband and my daughters and my life on the wicker swing, my life of ordinary seductions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In theory, their discontent stems from a recalcitrant female, perplexingly unswayed by the duo's seduction technique: "Goosing girls, that's my style." LMFAO: Sorry for Party Rocking ? review 2011-07-14T14:30:01Z Sometimes, as the choreography and music play with and confront the tension between race and masculinity in dance, they seem as if they are intent on seduction. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Revitalized and treated with the delicate skills that make all the difference between the word “seduction” in French and in English, even the clothes looked sensual and classy. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z Music, even more than the movies I made a career reviewing, taught me the joy of collective experience and especially the power of mass seduction. The Beatles Awaken a New Sensation 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Consider it a Hollywood seduction: As much effort is put into making you want to look as it is in keeping you at bay. Los Angeles, as a Pedestrian 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In Episode 10, for example, Elizabeth killed a Pakistani diplomat while Philip supervised the seduction of another. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Eight Things About the Show That Don’t Make Sense 2014-05-01T03:12:25Z A fruit seller with a cart across the street follows Brea’s attempts at seduction and snaps his wrist in praise. Cuba’s forgotten champ 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z She has written La Seduction, a nonfiction account of how important the idea of seduction is to all aspects of French life. Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z The filmmakers decided to use these visually adventurous asides instead of employing the cheap action recreation plot, and this choice adds to the sense of seduction and disillusion that fuels the narrative. Showtime's alluring "Love Fraud" exposes the common con artist charming America's lonely women 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z In his lyrics too, White moves away on “Lazaretto” from the seductions and the troublemaking in which he used to specialize. Outsider no more, Jack White brings 'Lazaretto' to the Fonda Theatre 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The studio has employed David Levien and Brian Koppleman, writers of Rounders and The Girlfriend Experience, to write and direct an adaptation of Strauss's infamous book, which is part exposé, part seduction manual. The Game seduces Hollywood studio 2011-07-11T11:51:00Z He looks incredulous when the photographer, a very beautiful young woman, expresses doubt about the efficacy of this seduction technique. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z Many artists in the collection, including Homer and Edward Hopper, began their careers as commercial illustrators and never abandoned the seductions of narrative. Censured Delaware Art Museum Plans to Divest More Works 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z After all, what matter a few seductions, frauds and murders when the perpetrators are so charming, so handsome, so much more interesting than the victims! ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z In his other novels too, Kennedy seems to have had a fascination for scary, strong women with a penchant for seduction. Ride a Cockhorse by Raymond Kennedy – review 2012-07-31T10:55:01Z Personal training Could anything be worse than Philip’s chilling flashbacks to the K.G.B.’s training/brainwashing in seduction and sex with a parade of grim or leering partners. 'The Americans' Recap: Intimacy in the Line of Duty 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Some of the sex scenes in wealthy houses at Pompeii are just too pretty to be funny, their exquisite painting and expensive pigments signalling seduction rather than obscenity. The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans 2013-03-23T16:49:06Z That dance is, in great part, a highly developed and ritualized art of storytelling, often through the means of seduction. Malavika Sarukkai expressively displays Bharata Natyam 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Each protagonist is wrestling with the morality of romance, but the calculus of seduction is different in every time frame. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Onanism gives way to attempted seduction, as a motive. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z Once Marcus succumbs to her seduction, his comeuppance is now all but guaranteed as he falls even more deeply for a woman who does not want a monogamous relationship. ‘Boomerang’ at 30: Think of It as the Robin Givens Rom-Com 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Scenes of Hans and Leo eyeing each other at a concert, or conversing in a shower, brim with seduction. The poignant resistance of "Great Freedom" found in a German prison where gay men are criminalized 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Maybe that is why the Diane Von Furstenberg collection looked so good: well balanced, neatly built and with an undercurrent of seduction — not least from the flirtatious giggles from the French soundtrack. Fashion Review: Trousers Missing on the New York Autumn 2012 Runways 2012-02-13T16:51:14Z Before any seduction can get under way, one has to get through the door, and the lines to do so could easily use up your 45 minutes. 2010-02-10T19:52:00Z Undecided as to whether she is a defiant agent of seduction or of contamination, the woman transforms into a stiletto-heeled femme fatale. Sodome, My Love | Theatre review 2010-03-23T23:40:00Z We begin “Siracusa” wondering: Will the seductions of Italy cause their romance to flare? An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Without the seduction and the sentiment, the promise of transformation, it’s just stuff. Fashion Creates a Slippery Slope of Designer Departures 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Even in these android-like movements, there is Byrd's fascination with different forms of seduction, with a pelvic thrust here, a sweet arabesque there — shout-outs to street dance and echoes of Balanchine. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z "There is that fine line between seduction of participation and the violence of Orwellian surveillance and tracking and policing of the people," he said. Artwork records words, beams them to Philly skies 2012-09-16T18:16:04Z Mixtapes may be virtually obsolete, my friend noted, but seduction through books — another courting method left over from the analog age — lives on. A Fantastic, Fantastical Book for the New, Cool Woman in My Life 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z This is also the point at which “Good Behavior” becomes a problematic and strange story with S&M undertones that conflating seduction and the spice of danger with elements of actual menace. Lady Mary Behaving Badly: TNT’s “Good Behavior” lets Michelle Dockery break bad 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z PUAs have been around for years, selling themselves as dating gurus and charging men to attend seminars and conferences on learning the art of seduction. Is This The Most Hated Man in the World? 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s got all those things, but it is primarily a tale of seduction. Books of The Times: Walter Kirn’s Memoir About Befriending a Fraud 2014-03-17T21:29:53Z Every lavishly detailed scene straddles the divide of seduction and repulsion, and each visual spectacle registers some aspect of societal decay. Laurie Lipton: Drawing the walking dead with a most beguiling beauty 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Out of the endless supply of Christmas tunes, why does this weirdly scandalous and ultimately queasy-making tale of nefarious seduction not only survive but thrive during the holidays? Is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a date-rape anthem? 2012-12-10T21:14:00Z The fact that Kehlani is as straightforward about her unreliability as her desires sets her apart from R&B singers who treat the genre only as a site of cool seduction. Review: Kehlani’s ‘SweetSexySavage’ Gives Love an R&B Workout 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s perfectly possible that your father was a flirt and he may indeed have been a serial philanderer, but your aunt’s description of this past attempt at seduction is definitely not conclusive proof of either. Dad left, and my aunt told me a secret about him | Mariella Frostrup 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Their ensuing pas de deux is part seduction, part demonic possession. Jeff Daniels makes a powerful return to 'Blackbird' alongside a captivating Michelle Williams 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z What begins as shock treatment for adventurous audiences quickly becomes a successful seduction. REVIEW: Wetlands: A Schmutzy Comedy With an Adorable New Star 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “It seems like a large component of success now is the seduction of imagery,” she said. Diane Keaton, Hiding in Plain Sight 2010-11-15T19:16:00Z I was in my 20s, and quite happy to share erotic stories with my then husband, about innocent virgins and their seduction. Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Through these lenses, she upholds the individual against the seductions of groupthink. Siri Hustvedt wonders why we revere the intellect and distrust the body 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Either way, he serves them up with verve and bravado, even if at this show he was offering reminders of seductions past more than anything else. Music Review: Ever the Charmer, Brazen and Sly, but at a Faster Clip 2011-07-01T22:26:12Z Indeed, many of our favorite villainesses are adept at using the power of seduction in their arsenal of weapons. Hollywood’s sexy villain problem 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z 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. Kinsey: No sexing-up required 2010-07-08T09:14:00Z A serenade, an interestingly broken sonnet, a bravura musical performance, perfect marriage of sound and sensuality; a passionate seduction and one of the loveliest lyrics in the language. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z All big bands encounter those problems – it's the seduction of mass relation. Mick Hucknall: 'I feel a bit like the antichrist' 2010-12-02T21:30:00Z The outcome of such seductions we don’t know as teenagers, and that’s why it makes us scared. A Q&A with Stoker Director Park Chan-wook 2013-03-05T17:12:51Z “Will it be music, art or theater or just plain seduction,” he said. In Transit Blog: Nothing 'Sacred' About Arts Festival in London 2011-11-18T11:00:41Z Mostly the competition is preoccupied with love and seduction and good times that help bury older, more scarring memories. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z “It’s the opposite of seduction. Seduction involves elegance and has the goal of pleasing others. This is grossly macho behavior.” | François Hollande: Casanova or Lout? 2014-02-07T20:50:14Z The title character’s seductions are barely more sophisticated than in a thousand “Falstaff” productions; the merry wives of Windsor’s revenge, little crueler. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Max wrote in a review in The New York Times, “part literary parody, part case study of the slipperiness of narrative and the seduction of a good story.” Paul La Farge, Inventive Novelist, Is Dead at 52 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “But it’s the opposite. We want to preserve seduction, chivalry and ‘l‘amour à la francaise’ by saying what is key is consent. France gets serious over sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal: minister 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “Beauty’s always skin deep,” Ms. Haden sings in “Three as Four”; behind the glossy surface, on this album, is a cerebral seduction. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-28T23:26:01Z When set on seduction, he wears silk caftans with Cavalli’s favorite animal prints embroidered in gold. Milan designers nudge men to dress with derring-do 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z All she needed was someone who could convey the power of seduction as well as Vereen. 'Pippin' is back, and surrounded by Broadway buzz 2012-12-21T19:17:12Z In the film, many characters use seduction to get what they want: to get closer to power, to undermine the other campaign, to win political backing. George Clooney rules out political bid in US 2011-08-31T19:46:03Z The occasional adoring close-up may seem a bit much, but it fits right into his seduction technique. ‘Jobs’: An inside look at a computer revolutionary 2013-08-15T19:24:04Z Titled “For Forgetting,” it commands the lobby gallery with a mix of video, film and installation that, broadly speaking, explores the seductions, schemes and scams of the Internet. Art Review: Laure Prouvost Exhibition Opens at New Museum 2014-02-20T23:19:30Z What about the story of Colin, who after a string of failed seduction attempts, flies to Wisconsin in the deranged conviction that American women will like him better than English women do? Do you love ‘Love Actually’? Then here's everything you need to know about ‘Love Actually Live’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Appropriately, Mr. Valli’s haute couture dress appears in a section titled “Extravagant” — “the domain of glamour, seduction and excess,” as a museum label puts it. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The introduction was a kind of challenge, or seduction, invariably addressed to an enemy. Sean Connery at 90: a dangerously seductive icon of masculinity 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Such is the dreamy seduction going on between suspect and inspector. Park Chan-wook's mesmerizing "Decision to Leave" is a dreamy seduction that plays with our trust 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Maybe this is why you are feeling less of a seduction vibe. The End of Gender 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Guadagnino clearly intends for these themes of seduction, allure and glamour to envelop the audience, like silk fabric swathing an arched foot sole. ‘Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams’ Review: For the Heel of It 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Women’s lives, Havrilesky contends, still too often imitate the contours of horror fiction: emotional seduction followed by humiliation and betrayal. Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Since the 1960s, these behemoths have increasingly embraced their inner Barry White, and that’s likely a sign that seduction is on the rise in this highly endangered species. Sex in the sea: What we can learn from underwater orgies, beach sand bondage and kinky lobster courtship 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In the basement, they plan seductions, kidnappings, and assassinations. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He dresses like a student, always with a book to hand, and we meet him talking to unseen potential pupils he's interviewing with a mixture of caution and seduction. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-06T23:05:35Z Still, somehow we’ve reached a point where any behavior short of violent predation – let’s call it the “not as bad as Weinstein” standard – is characterized as misunderstood seduction. Abuse isn't romantic. So why the panic that feminists are killing eros? | Jessica Valenti 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z This is an evocation of the unhealing wound of Amfortas, the leader of the knights, and of the opera’s bitter power plays and nightmarish, incest-like seductions, which are more harrowing than anything onstage. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This is playing of rigorous, solemn control and, at the same time, endless seduction. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Armida dominates the opera, encompassing seduction, happiness, despair and rage, and Rossini translates her magic powers and charisma into dazzling music. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns to Rossini?s Tale of a Sorceress and Her Crusader 2011-02-20T22:58:51Z Now, attempted seduction is hard work, and its fun is offset by a terrible fear of rejection. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z A king’s daughter, she was corrupted at an early age and quickly learned the useful tools of seduction and murder. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z There was rhapsody in these musical seductions — and the calculation that the way to theater lovers’ hearts was through their cast albums. Perspective | The Tonys brought back the fanfare, but Broadway still faces many challenges 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z She was not so different as courtesan or goddess, and I was never sure what was meant as a gesture of devotion or seduction. Malavika Sarukkai expressively displays Bharata Natyam 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z In "Kiss Land," the R&B slow jams typically associated with sex and seduction are transformed into background music for deeply jaded romantics. New wave of neo-soul 2013-10-11T15:13:21Z It mandated “special care” in handling provocative subjects, including “the sale of women, or of women selling their virtue,” and “the deliberate seduction of girls.” Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Some Victorians were concerned about the vulgar seductions of fiction, especially the sensational stories that multiplied as production costs declined. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Now, he adds, “I’m definitely seeing dyed-in-the-wool craft-beer consumers who like less of the fireworks and more of the seduction — beers that may not be so splashy.” Make room, hoppy IPA. Pilsener is the buzzy new craft beer. 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a kind of seduction of the hand, but once you’re in it, you realize you’ve been brought to another space — of inquiry and realization of a kind of historical angst.” Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Their plots tend to start like romances, focusing on seduction and romantic rivalry, and end like tragedies, with a mounting body count and a reflective speech. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z As with "Heart of Darkness," the seductions and corruptions of power haunt this novel, but it is the power of the Bad Mother -- in contrast to the Bad Father embodied by Conrad's Kurtz. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z In a way, it’s part of her seduction: Odile, forcibly, pins Siegfried down. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z But even that is a puzzlement: Is the musical, which breathlessly stacks seductions and abuses and threats and scandalous births, briefly sending itself up? Storytelling haze shrouds the musical ‘Blackberry Daze’ 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z That's because when they first start chatting online, he's 16 and a volleyball player too, but as she gets deeper into his seduction, the age he admits to starts inching up. In Liana Liberato We 'Trust': A 14-Year-Old's Harrowing Turn Elevates Tale of Pain and Pedophilia 2011-03-31T20:35:00Z The energetic single “Hold It Against Me” is, in essence, seduction based on a Groucho Marx joke. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-28T23:26:01Z With television's new Golden Era well underway, opening titles — those clever or mesmerizing gambits that set the tone for seduction by an entire series — are being rendered with ever more creativity and edge. Emmy Awards: 'True Detective,' 'Turn,' 'Masters of Sex' set tone early 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z An essay on the tangled relationship between reporter and subject, an affair that often begins with seduction and ends with betrayal. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z “Resist the urge to go in before permission has been granted,” David Leveaux, the play’s director, advised Mr. Bloom after a take in which the velocity of seduction seemed a little too fast. A Voice Instructor for the Leads in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-09-12T16:20:05Z The song “Are You Experienced?” is a seduction song, but it’s dated, locked into a historical moment. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z I was a mass of whizzing teenage hormones and the extract on the flyleaf had me hooked, detailing as it did the seduction of a hobbit-like character by a sensuous elf. After Tolkien, get Bored of the Rings 2011-02-08T13:01:04Z And while Clooney and his fellow actors are willing to concede that Washington and Hollywood may share seduction and power as common currency, that doesn't mean the stakes are the same. George Clooney rules out political bid in US 2011-08-31T19:46:03Z The actress needed to show extreme vulnerability and innocence in order for the cult’s seduction to be believable; Durkin wanted to write Martha’s story on a blank face. Elizabeth Olsen: Sister Number Three Rises to the Top 2011-10-21T16:08:07Z His acting was most convincing in the optimistic seduction scene of Act I. When he returned with his American bride at the end of the opera, he appeared more uncomfortable than contrite. Opera Review: ‘Madama Butterfly,’ With Amanda Echalaz in the Title Role 2014-01-17T21:30:43Z A precise fabulist, Mr. Nasrallah — whose current project about Egypt’s recent political upheavals is already beset by controversy — coats political medicine in the honey of seduction. | 'Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story': A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes 2011-08-11T22:45:54Z It was especially true on “Wasting Time” and “Banana Pancakes,” sly songs about seduction, on which Mr. Johnson sounded briefly alert, as if he might be able to get the job done. Music Review: Jack Johnson Stops at Madison Square Garden 2010-07-16T21:36:00Z In the meantime, an ever-expanding audience found their own lives in her songs: in their desires, jealousy, doubts, seductions, setbacks and triumphs, and in their leisurely grooves. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z I still got a buzz from the pretend flirting and the faux intimacy and the fake seduction of the celebrity interview. Modern Love: How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance 2014-01-23T19:38:45Z This languor fits the tempo of Elio and Oliver’s relationship, which evolves over meals, drowsy idylls, a little work and a spontaneous piano recital that becomes an overture to seduction. Review: A Boy’s Own Desire in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Best Saturday night seduction: The Weeknd's solid set of R&B. Babies were made. The (highly biased) Coachella 2015 Awards: The best of the best 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z “Automania” tries to grapple with this seduction by digging into the visual culture of cars — not just their design, but how their design influenced art. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Walking on the Rue des Martyrs became a conversation without end, a form of seduction. The Flâneur Discovers Paris, a Step at a Time 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z His only real power is seduction, while the “butcher” Warren represents America’s idealized man—emotionally distant, tough, decisive. Daring to Be Unlikable 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z And strength of character has been given its due as a powerful form of seduction. Why Did We Fall for the Angels? 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Or we’d learn at the very least that this is the awkwardness that passes for seduction in the dorkiest Zip codes of the land. Perspective | Talking honestly about Peter Strzok’s affair would have saved that whole bonkers hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Melanie McFarland writes in her review that the film offers "travel, seduction, danger, and enough beauty to offset the frequent bouts of projectile vomiting." Anna Kendrick in space! Idris Elba on a horse! Here's what new on Netflix in April 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Lila, with all her powers of seduction, suggests to Lena that they play hooky one morning and walk across the city to the harbor, to the sea, which they have never seen. Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Librettos do not get much more sensational than this one, staging a murder, a seduction, a blinding, a Bacchanal, and an entire temple collapsing. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z In the film’s most heartbreaking moment, Bina’s casual seduction of Alike leads her to believe that she has at last found true love. | 'Pariah': ?Pariah,? With Adepero Oduye as a Young Lesbian - Review 2011-12-27T23:41:52Z So in these more intimate moments I wanted it to be more of a seduction. There Are Worse Roles Than the Seducer. Ask Alexander Skarsgard. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Fashion is about glamour, which is about seduction, which is about intrigue, which is about suggestion. Critical Shopper: Agent Provocateur, Selling Kink on Madison Avenue 2011-02-23T19:49:37Z It's a game of seduction, with your co-star and the audience as the seducees. No Strings Attached Review: The Thawing of Natalie Portman 2011-01-21T16:35:00Z Is her wariness part of her seduction game, or is it directed at her own rising feelings? Essential summer jams for 2013 2013-05-02T16:18:11Z But when her powers of seduction don’t work right away, Elka does the unthinkable: She decides to listen to his boring stories, and gets an unexpected surprise as a result. 'Hot in Cleveland' to End Run After 6 Seasons 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The track is an unhurried disco seduction, sprawling to 10 minutes without overstaying its welcome. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It is difficult to ignore the seduction of an object that asks for nothing except that you relax entirely and watch the solving of a nice rural murder. Why turning on the TV in the bedroom is a big turn off | Eva Wiseman 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Women who are “curvy, even very curvy, fleshy or busty” should learn to use their bodies, he added, to facilitate “pleasure, seduction and the commitment of a man.” Skin Deep: Warmed-Over Atkins? Don?t Tell the French 2011-03-16T19:29:39Z When her cousin discovers an inside plot to kill all Jewish people, Esther intervenes through seduction and eventually saves the Jews. Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament 2014-01-05T19:00:00Z Their double bill proposed a study in compatible contrasts, and, if you like, a treatise on the interplay of gender and power, seduction and surrender. Music Review: Maxwell and Jill Scott Play Madison Square Garden 2010-06-27T22:53:00Z Gabriel is ripe for seduction when his glamorous new girlfriend introduces him to her “uncle,” Augustus Klinman, who offers him a lot of money to provide artworks in the style of his famous forebear. ‘A Nearly Perfect Copy’: seduced into art fraud 2013-04-10T18:14:27Z Leonard Cohen: The master songwriter’s baritone voice remains equally adept at poetic seduction and black humor. Top weekend shows: Leonard Cohen, Kids These Days, Titus Andronicus 2012-11-21T23:15:00Z What “The End of the Tour” dramatizes—why it will be added to every journalism professors’ curricula—is the seduction phase of the profile-writing process. How “The End of the Tour” Nails an Entire Profession 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The seduction of the serial killer narrative is difficult to shake, for reader and author alike. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The current crop of writers is hardly the first to succumb to Blue Hill’s frozen-in-time seductions. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z If 10 bucks for bread sounds excessive, the arrival of a slab of wood arranged with a bakery’s worth of seductions will change your mind. At City Perch, enjoy the bread and desserts — if you can get a moment’s peace 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s not a terribly artful seduction, but soon, Alice and Ezra, who is four decades her senior, plunge into a clandestine romance. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In an otherwise flashy Finale, Mozart drops a serious minuet, which Wang allowed to remain in the alluringly ambiguous region between seduction and irony. It's nice to have L.A. Phil 'family' like Yuja Wang, Salonen 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z At the beginning it's more about seduction, venturing into the unknown and taking chances -- mystery and intrigue and sexiness. Adam Lambert promises "sexy" but "tasteful" show 2010-06-03T00:32:00Z While Marie’s assignment in Burkina Faso is filled with intrigue, seduction and double and triple crosses, the most absorbing parts of her story lie closer to home. Review | The novel ‘American Spy’ breaks down barriers. It’s also a terrific read. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The novel of seduction — in the vein of “The Scarlet Letter” and “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” of Dreiser, Zola and Henry James — was dead. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z All were reckoning, with grit and raw urgency, with their country's occupation, the insidiousness and seductions of Americanization, Japan's metamorphosing culture and economy. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Kylian's choreography merges a quivering, slicing ferocity with a baroque vocabulary of entwining, coiling seduction. English National Ballet: Ecstasy and Death – review 2013-04-19T16:41:45Z There is nothing to match the seduction and tantalising aura of the man from Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci: art's mystery man 2011-07-13T15:38:22Z Furthermore, the thing that most separates Lady Gaga from the bubblegum sirens of a decade ago is that her capacity for seduction has been neutered, recontextualized. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z If the star shape of the fountain feels reflexive and cliched, the visual seduction of fire dancing on a calm pool of water is mesmerizing. American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial has impact larger than its size But in that seduction scene I mentioned above I began to see how a stripped-bare “Porgy and Bess” might really work. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Audra McDonald in ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? - Review 2012-01-13T03:01:13Z Arbus saw the taking of her images as, as she put it, “a mutual seduction.” Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In one pointed sequence, West juxtaposes a scene of staged seduction with one of real menace, underlining the echoing tension. ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and the Lessons Few Horror Films Get Right 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In the background, Bruce Springsteen sang of gritty streets and the sinister seduction of cocaine. My mother, the drug addict 2014-03-31T23:00:00Z Here is where Skarsgård's talent for sinister seduction weaves beautifully with Snook's way of making Shiv's false self-assurance plausible. The Roys never had a chance: "Succession" sells Alexander Skarsgård as TV's finest Viking conqueror 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The niceness is the seduction; it’s the thing he can do better than anyone. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Still, Ms. Marling toys with aspects of seduction in the song’s arrangement, which leans heavy on a sinuous electric bass, and in the video, which she directed herself. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Morton's cutting gaze, sly smile, and dangerously honeyed way of relaying Catherine's story establish an anxiety that buzzes with a seduction. In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z These included indecorous dancing, unnecessary exhibition of underclothing, subjects dealing with premeditated seduction of girls, the effects of vitriol throwing, and materialisation of the conventional figure of Christ. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z But witnessing the dynamic, ardent members of her company in “Havana Rakatan” brings to mind another word: seduction. Review: Ballet Rakatan Delivers Sizzling Cuban Moves 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z This may sound counterintuitive, given that one of the seductions of Facebook in the real world is that it is open to everyone. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z And “Exhibit Piece” whacks at the seductions of America’s postwar largesse: A 22nd-century museum curator finds a rip in space-time and decides to live in his exhibit of the late 20th century. Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z A need to avoid seduction and to look tough dominates. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But a bag must be attractive, particularly as it is an instrument of seduction, intriguing and surprising men. The secret life of handbags 2011-04-05T13:00:18Z Small talk in “The Wolfe Twins” is a seduction, drawing you painstakingly through the outer rings of the characters’ interactions and into the denser atmosphere of their insecurities, misgivings, errors and sorrows. ‘The Wolfe Twins’ at Studio Theatre: A smart trip The experience is also very emotional because it acts on this level of seduction and admiration and abstraction, and the unknown that is the feminine universe. | YSL Manifesto 2011-02-28T19:30:33Z “It looks like a seduction scene,” he says. 'It's not about nostalgia': re-examining gender roles in film posters 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Morton ... establishes an anxiety that buzzes with a strange seduction. In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Despite this orchestra’s myriad seductions, Mr. Jurowski resisted the urge to overplay; the emphasis was on guiding a coherent, accumulating drama. Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Jackie Collins, the best-selling British-born author whose dozens of racy, page-turning novels chronicled the glitz — along with the sex, schemes and seductions — of the rich and the rapacious, died Sept. 20 in Los Angeles. Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The story of the dissolute nobleman who leaves a path of seduction across Europe before descending into the fiery abyss screaming but unrepentant is Mozart's darkest opera. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z Related Topics: All-TIME 100, Music, , Populist Get this album At Hollywood parties, Frank Loesser would amuse guests with this comic parry of seduction and resistance. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z “Like a Drum” is, titular simile notwithstanding, a seduction song that’s frank and literal and just this side of profane. Review: The Jamie Foxx Album ‘Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Some might say that Casablanca is a glaring omission from this list but I much prefer seeing Woody Allen getting seduction tips from a rather pushy apparition of Bogey. Clip joint: Kisses 2013-02-13T17:00:10Z The cocktail as instrument of seduction has a long cinematic pedigree. Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The women make more of an impression than the men, but the seduction scenes, even those dotted with humor, have a staleness to them. Review: A Pina Bausch Trip to Brazil Overstays Its Welcome 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z When he first invites Wendy to fly away with him, it feels like a seduction. Peter Pan – review 2013-01-06T18:04:10Z It is Barrett who effects the seduction at one remove, in the hope that he can use this as leverage over the master. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z In 2005, they received a new level of attention when Neil Strauss published “The Game,” a memoir/investigation about his time living in a Los Angeles group house devoted to the refinement of seduction techniques. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Gropes, slaps and seduction were tools in their arsenal. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z And then there is the underappreciated art of seduction in short stories. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Although the artful tone and almost childlike simplicity is initially appealing, after a while it becomes a little wearing, like a full-on seduction attempt by someone you don't fancy. Third Person: Bonnie and Clyde Redux 2010-07-22T21:31:00Z This has won her a readership that extends beyond contemporary art’s usual players, and for artists who work with Thornton, Fraser explained, “part of the seduction is the potential to reach that kind of audience.” Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world The seduction of mainstream culture is the promise that by remaining obedient to the models of life handed down, one will be freed from the difficulties of making meaning for oneself. Don’t get used to it: Queer literature in a time of triumph 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z That it's about spying and seduction will surely quicken appetites. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Her seductions took as many chances as her interviews, and she never crossed a bridge she couldn’t burn. Review | Oriana Fallaci: the journalist, the agitator, the legend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The most serious crisis is the seduction of Elizabeth’s sister and how it affects her marriageability. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The first sign that “Fight Club” might inspire men to do anything other than quote “Fight Club” on their Facebook walls came in the mid-two-thousands, with the rise of the “seduction community.” The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z I’m willing to bet that if they lived in 2021, Romeo and Juliet would quickly become fluent in our contemporary language of lust and seduction. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets the Hot Vax Summer 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z The young woman asking for a cigarette — not the woman he is expecting, but someone he’ll have to deal with — doesn’t approach him with any pretext of seduction. ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z When we meet Ariadne, she sings an extended soliloquy of seduction. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z Maybe she resists Macaulay's verbal seductions because she knows that all his linguistic finery masked an ugly set of prejudices. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z The most important aspect of what Thielen learns as a chef is how to apply masterful techniques with something less tangible: seduction. Chef Amy Thielen explains her love for rural and urban, highflung and lowdown in 'Give A Girl A Knife' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The power in his muscles is both animal and refined, particularly in the big seduction scene where he sways with Baby to Solomon Burke’s plaintive yet surefooted “Cry to Me.” 30 Years Later Patrick Swayze Still Stuns in 'Dirty Dancing' 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Men are indoctrinated to associate power with predation, and women with seduction and submission. How Do I Deal with My Anger Toward Men? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z For PT Sir, power is the seduction to which he succumbs the first time he stumbles into a political rally held by his future employer, Bimala Pal. A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z As a smooth seduction that serves to further transition a former Disney star into the mainstream adult marketplace, “Love Me Harder” goes all the way. Essential tracks: New from Ariana Grande, Ariel Pink and more 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z But the new "Candyman" bestows none of that air of seduction upon Anthony who, it's hinted early on with that bee sting, is being targeted by the titular evil for a specific reason. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Its summer seductions include a Wednesday-night farmers market menu, culled fresh from vendors steps away. Where to wow out-of-town guests 2011-08-05T11:24:30Z Cynics might describe “Labor Day” as an instructional manual on S-and-M seduction. Movie Review: In ‘Labor Day,’ Josh Brolin Romances Kate Winslet 2014-01-30T23:07:17Z For me, it was about charm and seduction but it was also about getting the result. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z Reviewing “Grease 2” for the Los Angeles Times in 1982, film critic Kevin Thomas described the shelter scene as “a funny misfired seduction scene.” Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z She’s often unbearable, but her blundering attempts at sophistication and seduction are redeemed by her unassailable innocence. Review: In ‘Chewing Gum,’ a Young Woman Hilariously Tries to Lose Her Virginity 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z All of which made the 22-year-old singer's frequent reliance on piped-in sound and occasional espousal of tawdry seduction Friday at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre both puzzling and disappointing. Review: A puzzling, frustrating Chris Brown 2011-09-24T13:48:00Z Word to the wise, Dev: it might be home to fewer seductions if you took Now That's What I Call Forbidden Love 43 off the stereo. EastEnders: pass the sick bags, Ian Beale's pulled 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z Even before things go terribly wrong, she brings her killjoy personality to what is supposed to be a carefree seduction. Television Review: Three New Sitcoms Put the Focus on Young Single Women 2011-09-18T22:09:46Z Maybe there's a cliché, or at least a degree of truck-stop-Romeo calculation, buried in that seduction line. 2009-12-16T01:15:00Z His set is structured like a seduction: for the first third he plays the clean-cut courtier who "can't stop missing you". Trey Songz – review 2013-01-31T13:19:00Z In a fevered glance, she moves between seduction and terror, and with the rise of an owlish eyelid, she pushes gentle vulnerability into cartoonish ridiculousness. A ‘Barbie From Outer Space’ Touches Down on a New Stage 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The letter, signed by 100 women, including actor Catherine Deneuve, was criticised by French feminists for conflating “seduction, based on respect and pleasure, with violence”. Michael Haneke: #MeToo has led to a witch hunt 'coloured by a hatred of men' 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Schwab's designs always play on seduction and have a mysterious femme fatale element to them, and his spring collection was no exception. Westwood highlights gala London fashion shows 2012-09-16T21:10:14Z There’s a reason so many people are conflating bad and sometimes criminal behavior with romance: traditional ideas about seduction rely on tropes of women witholding sex and men working hard to get it. Abuse isn't romantic. So why the panic that feminists are killing eros? | Jessica Valenti 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The women were in love with the body’s seduction of itself, they bent backward to it, they danced in their own arms and danced beautifully and looked down on anyone who didn’t. A Childhood in the Pro-Life Movement 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z And sharp episodes in which the feminist aspect of the play comes into close focus: David Harewood's strong Theseus and Nikki Amuka-Bird's beautifully cool Eurydice share an attempted seduction scene full of finely judged unease. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z In one scene, in which Peck teaches an unseen young cousin how to fish, Morse’s carefully calculated portrayal is its own minute brand of seduction — Morse invites the audience to fall under his character’s spell. ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Review: Many Miles to Go Before a Reckoning 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z But it's funny to watch Parham's seduction sabotaged as his colleagues submit too enthusiastically to their roles as a rose-seller and a pompous maitre d'. Kieran and the Joes ? review 2011-08-24T11:24:21Z The handles on the doors to most of the rooms are outstretched hands, a clever symbol of the show’s theme of connection and seduction. Theater Review: Twisting, Touching and Teasing in ‘Queen of the Night’ 2014-02-03T03:00:01Z Mr. Stevens said he wants Ms. Copeland to get to where the fouettés are a tool of seduction, not a technical feat. Misty Copeland, a Ballerina With Real Acting Chops 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The art of seduction may have to change. Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Butcher differentiates between “cat seduction” – which is when neighbours allow the cat into their home and feed it, but ultimately let it go – and outright theft. Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z At the end of the hero's interchangeable seductions, all that remains is his book. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Here are some you may wish to add to your seduction selection. Seduction playlist: get jiggy with these tracks 2012-11-09T13:15:00Z Yet the seductions succeeded because Hacheney used his authority as a spiritual leader and his deep yet twisted command of biblical interpretation to overcome the hesitations of his prey. 'A Twisted Faith': Gregg Olsen's story of betrayal and murder in a Bremerton church 2010-04-12T20:23:00Z Chief among the show’s methods is seduction by color, with a palette that is as aural as it is visual. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z He’s the kind of vulnerable figure you fear for in jail, and no match for the moral seductions and twisting, fervent sermons of Britton’s determined Lucius. Review | Heaven sent: ‘Jesus Hopped the “A” Train’ at 1st Stage 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z She’s half his age but seems to prefer older men, and in the following days the two engage in mutual seduction. Review | In “Find Me,” André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name” sequel, returning home is bittersweet 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z We saw them at a restaurant, where his new seduction strategy appeared to be to ignore her and pretend to work. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Whole Lotta Shakin’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z And a crucial seduction scene in Act III suggests why. Review: Rubinstein’s ‘Demon’ Is Redeemed in a Rare Staging 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z If Don's powers of seduction are still awe-inspiring to his dopey co-workers, we know there's an undercurrent of desperation to all the womanizing. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The life not lived' 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In a way, they gave his intelligence its seduction and its menace. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z They get to use their bodies for fun rather than for seduction. Sister act: from Killing Eve to Little Women, female friendships finally get top billing 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Another shows Krishna with four milkmaids, three of whom engage with him: One resists his seduction, another flirts back, and one is happy to go at it by the riverside. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s a fascinating moment in his new book when he describes being the target of an unwanted seduction himself. Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Genevieve’s attempted seduction was predicated on a romp in the surf. In Andy Warhol’s ‘My Hustler,’ Love Is for Sale 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Here's one of a 1960s Mad-Men type office seduction: Each story is set in its own period, ending in the early years of this century. Summer reads - best book to share: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff 2013-07-22T15:04:00Z The ancillary roles demand a shrewd reading of faces, body language and character in order to pull off the little dances of seduction built into the play. ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at the New Diamond Horseshoe Club 2013-12-26T21:42:17Z For many fans, the wait ended Thursday with the publication of “Grey,” which rehashes Christian’s seduction of the demure college student Anastasia Steele as he draws her into a dominant-submissive sadomasochistic relationship. ‘Fifty Shades’ Fan Fiction Assumes a Life of Its Own 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It always has been this act of seduction, where you are trying to get the subjects to reveal themselves before the camera. | David Armstrong 2010-11-19T16:00:00Z There were elements to admire in this episode: Harry’s blunt seduction of Megan confirmed his transformation into a lecherous creep. 'Mad Men' Recap: Misplaced Nostalgia 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z They rejected genteel proprieties and posed women with full-frontal nudity, in lesbian seductions, as victims of murder, in bondage restraints and as killers of hapless men. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But Almaviva lusts mightily after Susanna, and, though he has apparently renounced force, he seeks to win her favors by persuasion and seduction—that is, by an abuse of power via insinuation. “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z This song is an extraordinary tale of dangerous seduction and it calls on a pan-European tradition of willing abduction into the world of the Other. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z But still strong is the seduction of the Bilbao Effect — when an architecturally exciting project makes an institution more of a destination, like Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim in Spain. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Poorna Jagannathan invokes her seduction as a child by “a man we called uncle” in language that evokes the nihilistic cadences of the apocalyptic playwright Sarah Kane: “I am being fingered. Probed. Eaten. Devoured. Disappeared.” Review: ‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z All the traditional female virtues—motherliness, sensuality, cooperativeness—can be made to look like vices—manipulation, seduction, collusion. A New Movie About Female Power Might Explain the Election 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Grey gets away with it, barely, because he seems to be winking through the seduction. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Ray LaMontagne, Katie Melua and J J Grey 2010-08-22T22:55:00Z With men, there’s always that element of seduction. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Mammas" is a work of visual seduction told by "a distinct and remarkable story teller. 'Mammas' is study in maternal instinct 2013-05-07T12:51:08Z “It turns out that we were just as conflicted about seduction centuries ago as we are now,” our reviewer Alex Kuczynski writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And yet they sound as though they'd resemble Robert Palmer's slightly more debonair older brothers, sipping dry martinis after another night of empty seduction in the penthouses of downtown LA. New band of the day: Rare Times (No 1,465) 2013-03-05T16:56:16Z Only an innocent fool can save the knights and their leader, Amfortas, who is refusing his grail duties out of shame for losing the spear while succumbing to Kundry's seduction. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z "Foxcatcher" is a brooding, particularly American horror story of seduction, rejection, betrayal and murder set in the under-the-radar world of Olympic wrestling. 'Foxcatcher' a gripping story of seduction, rejection, murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z She gets you to that final moment on faith and through writerly seduction. Review: Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ Offers Lives Skipping Among Eras 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Shane, a hairdresser whose own unruly shag haircut has been restrained if not redeemed, is suffering through a divorce, and comforts herself, as usual, with a series of ambivalent seductions. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z All that noise strangles the twin melodies that make up the Candyman character's siren song: seduction and legacy. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z He loves the theatre of meetings, the initial seduction. Imagined Meetings With Joyce, Dickens, Hardy, and Lawrence 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Apparently, rigorous thought is powerless against the seductions of the internet. Self-help hits rock Botton 2013-05-13T19:58:00Z PUAs like Blanc have long courted controversy for their seduction tactics, which many women have criticized for being manipulative and sexist. Pick-Up Artist Julien Blanc Has Been Banned From Singapore 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Suddenly, she started to play a game of standard seduction, skillfully striking a series of conventionally flirty poses, as if to say “Come hither” and “Don’t you want me?” Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Instead his songs crackle with the first blush of seduction and power — sweet enough to deceive his youngest fans, and probably their parents too, but absolutely delivered with a devious glint in his eye. Music Review: Send in the Heartthrob, Cue the Shrieks 2010-09-01T22:20:00Z Subliminal seduction, indeed: Sendak’s book is seeded with deeper meanings, not just about “the dignity and truth of the human body” but about his own homosexuality, and his Jewish historical consciousness. In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z His first seduction scenes were a moment of genuine, romantic, sexual tension from a character who's supposed to be up for it the whole time. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode seven 2011-08-20T05:03:01Z Rhythm consummates the album’s seductions, with grooves that are sneakily unconventional. The Internet Gives a Human Touch to Digital-Era R&B on ‘Hive Mind’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The male fantasies about women seem juvenile and Marilyn Monroe’s sexuality, especially in that amazingly revealing gown she wears in the “seduction” scene with Tony Curtis, is both exploited and sent up. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Comstock had winking fun with “What Are You Afraid Of?,” a sly invitation to seduction proffered by the kind of bachelor once referred to as a “wolf” and played on television by Robert Cummings. Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano Croon at the Metropolitan Room 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Otherwise the singing was superb: soprano Ruby Hughes was bold, husky, full of rough-edged seduction; tenor Nicholas Mulroy added stylish ornaments and playful swagger; Robert Davies sang the bass arias with warmth and command. Dunedin Consort – review 2012-12-21T18:07:41Z The holiday classic is, to many, a playful dance of seduction. Does “Baby It’s Cold Outside” deserve a second chance? 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s a moody burner, the best song on his new album, and also the one place in which his two sides are wholly reconciled — his deep voice applied to the thick, sweet molasses of seduction. Kane Brown Reaches to Reconcile Two Sides in His Sound 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Mrs Robinson's seduction of the young Ben Braddock was a defining moment in 1960s films. In pictures: Mike Nichols films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Ty Dolla Sign is a deadpan singer, barely impressed by the feats of seduction that make up the whole of his interest set, but via vocal effects he sounds both heroic and sensual. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z This retelling would seem to have everything that audience could possibly want – travel, seduction, danger, and enough beauty to offset the frequent bouts of projectile vomiting. "The Serpent" is Netflix's seductive serial killer drama that ultimately lacks legs 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z And so, just as he nearly kisses Anna, in walks her mother: a disheveled apparition with a racking cough and too-tight jeans, combative and bent on seduction. Review: Two Bergman Films, Adapted on a Philadelphia Stage 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The song rings of familiarity and mystique, rumination and seduction, keeping all possibilities close at hand. Review: Myra Melford’s ‘Snowy Egret’ Taps Into Dreams 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z In a mutual seduction, she coaxed him to share his secrets while he coaxed her into bed. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Of all the predictions for 2013, it is the power of live, the gravity of immediacy, the seduction of the exclusive, the joy of face to face, that I predict will endure. Making a museum game that's more than just a tour of the building 2013-06-14T15:18:29Z But when Kanya — who is petulant, short and plain but has a genius for seduction — beds a former customer, Satoko has a brainstorm. Japan Cuts Features Melancholy Films at Japan Society 2013-07-13T00:01:00Z What follows brings the play to a disturbing culmination, as Mr. O’Hara suggests that Sutter’s early seduction by an older white man has bred in him a burning need for some kind of psychosexual revenge. ‘Bootycandy’ Looks at Black Attitudes Toward Gays 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z We see her eyes glaze over as she succeeds in her seduction and he grunts behind her in the flickering light of the disabled loos. Has the Girls revolution come to an end? 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Not until late, minor track Blood on the Dance Floor would the gender dynamic be reversed, and even there, it's still much the same story: inevitable seduction leading to possible pregnancy to blood and revenge. Is Michael Jackson on abortion controversial? Let's look at his work 2012-09-25T14:01:03Z Perhaps more than any other film critic, she dramatized in her writing a tension between the seductions of pop and the demands of art. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z Yet two of his numbers were almost all abhinaya; the difference between the tender, successful, seductions of his Krishna and the swaggering, amusingly unsuccessful ones was a delight. Traditional Indian Dance, With Room for New Blood 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z But the seduction backfires on Peggy — who not too long ago may have fallen for such a play on her insecurities — after she realizes what’s happening. 'Mad Men' Recap: 'New Business' 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z While it’s as suspenseful as any Le Carré plot, it’s structured less around spycraft than around a series of seductions, overlapping and conflicting, that allow Park to indulge his fondness for moments of heightened melodrama. Review: In ‘The Little Drummer Girl,’ Spycraft Is Seduction 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z In his world, there’s no seduction without a few sips of liquor, typically cheap stuff: “Gave me a kiss with Bacardi on her lips, and I was done.” Critic’s Notebook: Luke Bryan, the Leading Gentleman of Country 2013-08-16T22:08:47Z My favourite scene is the seduction in dialogue in The Names by Don DeLillo – but then my favourite everything is in that book. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z It’s a bloody yet playful examination of the seduction of evil and the hard cold road of good. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z There are no gun fights, seductions or car crashes, which may explain why major Hollywood studios had little interest in the film. Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen Collaborate on ?The Way? 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z The target is power — of performance and seduction. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z He chose the second approach, starting with “Clouds,” a mid-tempo funk tune with lyrics that push a seduction ritual as the ultimate pushback to our harried technological era. Eclectic and on Point, Prince Hijacks 8 Minutes on 'S.N.L.' 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Her attempts to communicate with Gustav culminate with her seduction of the child. ‘Queen of Hearts’ Review: A Gut-Wrenching Family Drama 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to get distracted when someone puts on a chatty charm offensive — after all, deception usually begins with seduction. Review: He’s Geekily Charming in This Magic Show, Until He Fools You 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Zapata said he planned to capture 10 “iconic women of our time,” although his description of the project sounded more like a seduction strategy recommended by Penthouse. Domingo Zapata’s Best-Known Work May Be Himself 2013-04-24T22:04:00Z "Midler's consummate ability to deliver brassy chutzpah, fierceness and silky comic seduction at the same time is harnessed to perfection, allowing just a judicious whisper of vulnerability," it said. Midler wins raves on Broadway as Hollywood agent Sue Mengers 2013-04-25T16:55:58Z Munch painted other scenes from this same room: of jealousy and seduction, of silence and something awful about to happen. Edvard Munch: a head for horror 2012-06-25T17:30:01Z Lady Antebellum wants to sing about seduction and loss; the locale is secondary. New Music: Gloriana, Farm Inc. and Christian Scott Release New Music 2012-07-30T21:47:21Z Sometimes his seduction is unexpectedly clever: “Pull in to that cul-de-sac/Backed in, no chauffeur/Back seat like a sofa.” Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z He would like to think their visual seduction will “unify and set us all in a room together for difficult conversations,” he said. Nick Cave Uses His Capital to Help Aspiring Creators 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z By the same token, writing a book is a seduction. Whose line is it anyway? Humor and hopelessness in “I Love Dick” 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Henri's poem brings us a more romantic seduction – one of flowers and held hands and dripping trees, but it, too, is about a time when love comes tumbling down. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-08-04T21:00:02Z She takes the discipline and rigor of her dance training and applies it to her second career as a spy, notably in the art of seduction. When Extremes Attract: Dance and Horror’s New Pas de Deux 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Spoiler: It’s because we’re just confused about what seduction looks like! Sexist scold Andrea Peyser offers predictably gross defense of Bill Cosby: “Not long ago, society looked at rape differently” 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z According to King, writing is primarily about seduction, not precision. 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Capitalism’s physical realities are offered in so much plenitude that our only choice is to extract ourselves from its seductions and retreat to a formalist posture. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The same misogynistic fear that women have the power to enchant men's minds underlies both stories of witches and stories of ordinary seduction. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z For you, seduction was a way of accelerating, though not catching up, like Atalanta’s run. Read John Ashbery’s Poetry 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Like much of Dean's art, Prisoner Pair broaches vast topics – nature, history, decay and the seductions of nostalgia – with apparently modest means: the simple passage of light across the surfaces of things. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z She tried that on “Discipline” in 2008, working with producers who flaunted up-to-the-minute effects and concentrating on seduction. Review: Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Focuses on Love Outside the Bedroom 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Still, there’s a thin line between seduction and spinning the press, and it took me a while to figure that out. Modern Love: How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance 2014-01-23T19:38:45Z He has the friendly patter down pat; his sotto-voce sales pitch is a cool cocktail of seduction and menace; you’re sure he will Always Be Closing. Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!? 2012-12-21T10:45:15Z Instead “Tabu” evokes the seductions and delusions of the colonial fantasy. Film: ‘Tabu,’ Newest Genre Breaker From Miguel Gomes 2012-12-23T03:49:46Z An exhibit in front of the Corvair includes a cartoon of the attempted seduction: Nader pushes a shopping cart through a supermarket as a blond woman in a tight dress winks at him. Ralph Nader's Tort Museum 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “But it’s the opposite. We want to preserve seduction, chivalry and ‘l‘amour à la francaise’ by saying what is key is consent. France gets serious over sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal: minister 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Playful yet unapologetically earnest, this scene inaugurates a seduction — of Ally, of us — that lasts the exhilarating first hour. Review: The Gorgeous Heartbreak of ‘A Star Is Born’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Illustration: Ed Tadiello Readers of romance fiction enjoy tales of alpha males and forced seduction. This holiday season, 34 long reads to explore 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The show denies Thorpe’s denial, and shows him engaging in what at best is a domineering seduction, and what at worst is a kind of violent predation. The Very English Politics of “A Very English Scandal” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s no longer a tactical maneuver—Sookee warming up her naïve lady for her wedding night—that bloomed into mutual seduction. “The Handmaiden” and the Freedom Women Find Only with One Another 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z For a sixty-year-old widower with vitiligo, Jeb has an impressive array of tricks in his seduction arsenal—ways to get women to trust him. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on Writing Predators and Their Victims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z This penultimate opera by Strauss conflates two myths: Jupiter’s attempted seduction of the lovely Danae, and the story of Midas, the king with the problematic golden touch. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Roth wrote about the joys of both “phonetic seduction” and “a finely calibrated relative clause.” Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The philosopher-socialite Bernard-Henri Lévy is entertaining, though perhaps not intentionally so, when he comes out with the classic line “What distinguishes men from animals is seduction.” Books of The Times: In France, Sauciness Extends Well Beyond Food 2011-06-15T23:45:43Z She appears embarrassed by Bill, disgusted by him, even somewhat sorry for him, as he bumbles his way toward what he thinks of as seduction. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Do You Believe in the Romance That Is Bill and Virginia? 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Say no to the seductions of the disposable singles market. Ewan Morrison: what I'm thinking about ... why capitalism wants us to stay single 2012-08-11T12:01:34Z This weekend, it welcomes Mr. Jasperse, a savvy sculptor of bodies in motion whose works mix wit and seduction, and tend to tangle dancers in intriguing knots. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z A white husband and wife stop to watch the performance, Rafa and Rufina’s “earnest seduction,” and deem the sadness and poverty “part of the charm.” A Novelist Asks White Tourists to Picture the Brown Lives They Overlook 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Her cool, precise account reveals his grand seductions as the brutal, petty, narcissistic fumblings that they were. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z But as part of a larger idea of recapturing childhood, and the sting of seductions and losses that start early and never really stop, it makes sense. Jim Hodges at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Snooki of the day: Back and refreshed from her European vacation, the always classy "Jersey Shore" star does a dance of seduction with a giant indoor plant. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-07-07T21:08:00Z Browning is adept at intellectual seduction: she prolongs largely irrelevant anecdotes, pauses just before imparting crucial exposition, teasingly asks your permission to reveal information she knows you desperately desire. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Affairs, dalliances and general sexcapades are hallmarks of soap operas, so “White Girl in Danger” follows suit with kooky seduction scenes, surprising bedfellows and sprays of bodily fluid. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z His voice and his verse-chorus-verse songwriting have harked back directly to Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, the Police and others, as he concentrates on thoughts of seduction, romance and, occasionally, winning someone back. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Revisit Vintage Luxury as Silk Sonic 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “We are in an idea of seduction, of dialogue, of communication, of sharing.” Pan-African exhibition seeks to herald continent's art scene 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Her soft voice turns a challenge into a seduction. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z Ted's singular means of seduction, like the show, resembles the figurative photograph mainstream America carries around in its psychological wallet. "Ted Lasso" creators Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt want you to know it's OK not to be OK 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z A sly, lush postdisco seduction, it’s one of the year’s unlikely pop gems. New Music: Jason Aldean’s ‘Night Train’; Sky Ferreira’s ‘Ghost’ 2012-10-15T22:07:43Z The old burlesque was about seduction and they were not projecting joy,” he said, adding that the old striptease performers were not well educated and considered it work rather than art. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-09T08:30:10Z “Winter of the World” prefers a “then, to his surprise and delight, she knelt down” style of seduction. Books of The Times: Ken Follett Offers Second Volume of Century Trilogy 2012-09-16T22:11:55Z It’s as if he wants to try every possible seduction strategy, all at once. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Yes, well, I always find that the chase and seduction is more interesting than a relationship. Debra Winger should probably have a marriage-advice column 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps charm is too strong a word: the women, starved of romance from their husbands, seem ripe for seduction. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z This half-hearted womanizer may go through the motions of seduction but he is really the passive collaborator in other people’s fantasies. Music Review: A Bachelor, Five Couples and All Their Tuneful Discontents 2011-04-08T23:21:13Z I also talk about seduction in the book. How to Make $1 Million With Amber Rose 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z These sorts of romances could be mirrored in Highsmith’s fiction — thrillers in which seduction was more like a criminal pursuit. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Combined, they present a seduction impossible to resist. Dance Review: ‘Judson Church Is Ringing in Harlem’ at St. Mark’s 2012-10-14T21:02:44Z Photograph: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery Pools are often used in literature and film as symbols of hedonism, seduction or danger. Art and the hidden depths of the humble public pool 2012-08-03T16:55:30Z They can provide the backdrop for significant events, including intrigues, seductions, quarrels and even murders. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z The first episode of series five was shown to the press on Thursday, and contained the usual mix of secrets. schemes, seduction and skullduggery. Less misery for new Downton Abbey 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z His manipulation of light and shadow replicate the signature Shyamalan foreboding that carries the story, and I as mentioned, the camera renders the Turners’ well-appointed home into a work of seduction. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z There are nymphs and witches, seduction and intrigues, gruesome violence and angry gods. “We’re all refugees”: What teaching displaced Syrians taught me about my calling and my country 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z And whether the reader is intrigued or repulsed, the force of that seduction remains long after the last page is read. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Its combination of shimmering seduction and ominous aggression will be familiar to those who admired “Written on Skin,” which also used the countertenor voice to haunting effect. Of Countertenors, Medieval Poetry and Capturing a Silvery Tone 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The organizers said in a statement Tuesday that "50 years after her death, Marilyn remains one of the major figures of world cinema, an eternal and contemporary reference of grace, mystery and seduction." Marilyn Monroe chosen for Cannes festival poster 2012-02-28T20:27:08Z It's actually a beguiling piece of seduction, but if you ever find yourself stumbling out of a club saying, "Til morning comes let's tessellate," you really need to look at yourself. This week's new tracks 2012-07-13T23:11:21Z We get a glimpse of the pair’s intellectual sync as Verdon coaches dancers through a sequence: “It’s not a seduction, it’s a con job.” Review: In ‘Fosse/Verdon,’ a Portrait of the Artist as Problematic Fave 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z And to what extent is it a cultivated set of manners whose goal is seduction? Music Review: Andrea Marcovicci Sings at the Oak Room - Review 2011-11-18T23:47:18Z His knack for charming pickpockets, dodgy taxi drivers and a mistress of seduction means he gets a fascinating insight into the scammers' work. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z There are few seductions that the bachata superstar Romeo Santos isn’t fluent in, or hasn’t attempted. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z His second act is more unsparing and harrowing, with seductions that take the form of surreal scenes tangling racial and sexual anxieties. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z But from page one of this novel, all transparencies and deceptions, is a dissection of the infatuations, the seductions, the things we ask of books and art and culture. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z It was an enjoyable mismatch, something like an eel and a lion in a back and forth seduction routine. Chris Stapleton Rides His Own Country Music Wave 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z In the end, though, what thrills in “The Dumb Girl of Portici” is Weber, who handles the large-scale rioting as persuasively as the intimate interludes, including a nakedly carnal seduction. Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The egg spoon became a mark of insider status and a tool of seduction. What’s Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z On my cruise, I heard an unconfirmed tale of a woman caught in another guest’s room in what I understood to be a case of unappreciated seduction. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z For the first five years after the brain injury, he doesn’t even think of seduction. My husband had to learn sex again, and I had to become one tenacious bitch 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The son's seduction was encouraged by his father. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z On “Munch,” she pulls off a perfectly balanced tug of war between neg-heavy seduction and the affect of being utterly unbothered. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z She soon melts under him, accepting his violence as a seduction. Review: ‘The Duelist’ Is a Good Shot. A Very Good Shot. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Dashing and cleverly imagined, it is a mystery wrapped in a hoax, part literary parody, part case study of the slipperiness of narrative and the seduction of a good story. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z I “studied” kissing, bedroom techniques, seduction by astrological archetype and other ways of manipulating the universe. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s a performance and, like any good performance, a seduction, and the degree to which it’s real is a question whose consequences keep playing out after Charlie has moved into the terrorists’ world. Review: In ‘The Little Drummer Girl,’ Spycraft Is Seduction 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Her long overdue solo film "Black Widow" is an unapologetic tale of feminist liberation that substitutes seduction with sisterhood. Of course "Cowboy Bebop" is already inciting horny male outrage, and it hasn't even premiered yet 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z His band worked like an old-school soul revue, moving from leisurely tease to funky drive, from seduction to consciousness-raising, from visceral to thoughtful to soulful. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It was very dramatic and emotional, but it didn’t play with the seduction and physicality that is usually connected to young people. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Led by Ben Vereen, Fosse’s “Pippin” was a hot and seriously cool seduction of an audience. Theater Review: ‘Pippin,’ Directed by Diane Paulus, at the Music Box Theater 2013-04-26T02:01:15Z That Ligeti work is exuberantly creepy, starting with a sustained dissonance that shifts with the molten seduction of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” prelude and culminating, in the ninth piece, with an aggressive unison siren call. Music Review: Ensemble MidtVest at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-04-13T21:45:34Z In Beaton’s images, as in much of the greatest portraiture, the seduction flows over to the viewer as well. Cecil Beaton Through the Decades 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But it’s actually the character’s seductions that are most effectively portrayed here. Theater Review: ‘Richard III,’ with Ron Cephas Jones, at the Public Theater 2012-08-12T20:55:37Z Instead, he’s surprised to find his living room strewn with rose petals and his vampire lady in her finest agent provocateur, angling for seduction. RECAP: Sunrise, Sunset and Everything in Between on True Blood 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z In particular, Pinney’s subject in “The Arbalest” is inauthenticity and the ravages it wreaks on the soul of an artist who yields to its seductions. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z My moment with seduction—at least the physical kind—was long gone. The unromantic gift that saved my marriage 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z In the show, young lovers carouse, deceive each other and give into seduction amid sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire eater and a contortionist. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Così Fan Tutte’ and ‘Power’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z He smiled and grabbed the hands of the fans in the front rows as if it were a celebration, not a seduction. D’Angelo's Apollo Theater Show Featured Signature Songs and Style 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The aspects of his temperament held up for mockery — the hyper-intellectualism, the snobbery, the irreducible Jewishness — doubled as weapons of seduction. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Some may foolishly see your position as a challenge to their powers of seduction, but the more sensible will register the amber light. I dump my girlfriends after 18 months. What am I so scared of? | Dear Mariella 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z It does, however, skew the plot, making Trigorin's casual seduction of Nina seem grotesquely improbable. The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z The season resumes as the recruits are tutored in the art of seduction, which Alex uses as a chance to get closer to Owen. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Witness’ and ‘Beware the Slenderman’ 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z When the sandwiches were ready, Ms. Coolidge cut them into quarters and headed outside to share them with her meat-eating publicists — a vegan seduction. Jennifer Coolidge Loads Up on Vegan Chocolate Bars and Whipped Cream 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The true performer knows that their craft demands seduction, for the lure of the stage is the thrill of escape. ‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z As well as being an edgy hybrid of thriller and morality tale, the book also offers the seduction of an extraordinarily compelling atmosphere, the timeless appeal of Brighton. Brighton Rock's themes are too big for the screen 2011-02-07T12:04:15Z The movie offers a script partly by William Faulkner, plenty of corruption and innuendo, and perhaps the fastest bookshop seduction ever committed to celluloid. There Is Nothing Like a Dame 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Max, put it, the novel “emerges as an inexhaustible shaggy monster, part literary parody, part case study of the slipperiness of narrative and the seduction of a good story.” Paperback Row 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z He takes the sound of between-the-sheets seduction and turns it into something sinister, singing with heart-felt sweetness about being a heartless rogue. Concert review: The Weeknd at Lincoln Hall 2012-05-04T06:09:00Z The job requirements often include nudity and feigning seduction; provocation is a lever for sales. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Andrew Marvell’s seduction poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” published in 1681, features the sly lines “then worms shall try / that long preserved virginity, / and your quaint honour turn to dust.” Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z By now, he has decided firmly in favor of seduction, and soon they are sharing a hotel room. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Legend's first three albums are boudoir masterpieces - ranking alongside Prince and Barry White for smooth "Girl, let me break it down for you..." seduction. John Legend talks 'Love In The Future' 2013-04-17T00:14:07Z What they actually do with these weapons of mass seduction is another story, however. Art Review: ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ on Governors Island 2012-05-31T22:07:27Z Few people, rich or poor, really like to disclose their financial standing to the world — which means a photographer interested in wealth and poverty needs a special gift for seduction. Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Care to see an ear of corn used as an instrument of seduction? "Best Worst Movie": The cult of the truly bad film 2010-05-14T20:12:00Z His dance movements were perfectly befitting his boxy white shoes as his band dispensed dorm-room seductions with a little echo and a few radio-friendly guitar hooks. A lot of chitchat — and some music — at Playboy Jazz Festival 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Photograph: Michael Ward Joe Orton struck the pose for his own portrait, at once mocking its seduction and using it to allude to his own rebellious identity as a gay writer. Christine Keeler's nude photograph: still sexy and subversive, 50 years on 2013-05-01T14:56:17Z Moreover, in an ill-conceived choice, semi-humorousness infuses a key scene involving a seduction so aggressive, and so lopsided in its power dynamic, that it is almost an assault. Review | ‘Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes’ veers jarringly from comedy to darkness 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Serrano: The Musical A mob enforcer is tasked with schooling his uncouth nephew in the art of seduction in this world-premiere musical. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 11-18: 'Time Stands Still' and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z We go to the movies — and we still go quite a lot, by the way, in spite of the seductions of the couch and the streaming queue — in search of escape from reality. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z When something else is occupying my mind, it’s hard to shut that off and switch into seduction mode. I just don’t want to have sex with you! 2014-04-05T22:30:00Z Even then, I knew this was not a pretty picture—the stumbling seductions, the wasted talents—but a kind of warning. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Cue tightly choreographed routines, some playful seduction and a frightful scene in which she points a gun at the nogoodnik and shoots off his clothes, leaving him in only boxers. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z The script preserves the novel’s back-and-forth-in-time structure, and Episode 2 begins with an uninterrupted half-hour flashback recalling the seduction of a Russian agent in Lisbon. Television: ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Alec Guinness - Review 2011-10-22T04:00:07Z Why did you choose to focus on sex and seduction rituals? Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the wild 2011-02-06T00:04:04Z The thematic arc of "The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" ... explored a darker side of romance: a dalliance with intoxicating self-sabotage and the seduction of the spotlight. 50 years ago, David Bowie and Roxy Music made history 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Despite its adornments and seductions, the play is bitter at its heart. ‘Dom Juan’ Review: The Perks of Being a Professional Hypocrite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The exchange of ideas, which continues in private meetings at the parish rectory, becomes an elaborate game of seduction, philosophical on the surface but sexual just beneath. DVD: Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God 2011-07-22T05:27:59Z Part of the seduction of his art is that the colours never seem to dry: the oil keeps its freshness. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Miguel’s big seduction of Wren may be one of the goofiest moments in this or any film. Sean Penn directs “The Last Face” like it’s his last chance 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z It is all staged, of course, but the seduction — in multiple senses — of both us viewers and the girl has a wonderfully, creepily real feeling. Art Review: A Burgeoning Film Career Built on Random Encounters 2011-02-24T22:35:21Z My friend Tim explains that while seduction and the prospect of sex can motivate him into action, it is insulting to think it is the be-all and end-all of male behavior. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Paulus’s “Pippin” is in its way a natural extension of Fosse’s, pushing the musical from seduction into sensory assault. Theater Review: ‘Pippin,’ Directed by Diane Paulus, at the Music Box Theater 2013-04-26T02:01:15Z In 1877 it was Odile herself, after changing costume, who reappeared to perform this — and with it she evidently completed her seduction of Siegfried. ‘Swan Lake’ Discoveries Allow for a Deeper Dive Into Its History 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Seven years after releasing his latest album and five years after his previous New York City concert, Maxwell was ready to resume his career as one of R&B’s most elegant accessories to seduction. Review: Maxwell’s Sensual R&B Makes a Big Room Intimate 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z A sense of place and history anchors this bilingual volume, where even seduction might evoke a “layer of the dead” or “the plexus of light,/sound, water.” Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The opener, “Bittersweet,” uses a plush, pinging Isaac Hayes sample to ground the song in vintage R&B seduction. Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Instead of blunt force, Sandusky used a variety of seduction techniques, building trust with boys through the many perks of Division I Athletics and a nonprofit he founded for underprivileged youth. With Paterno-Sandusky doc 'Happy Valley,' unsettling cultural questions 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The film is “a cold, funny number about the erotics of money and the seduction of death,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in August. New DVDs: ‘Buster Keaton Collection,’ ‘The Jazz Singer’ 2013-01-06T04:13:01Z In the seduction scene, their vocal lines follow each other like a finger lovingly retracing a line in a drawing. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z The closest parallel in the opera to contemporary technical wizardry is Klingsor’s false garden; it feels rather perverse to extend those artificial seductions to the rest of a piece that’s condemning them. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z His Peck is a Southern gentleman charmer with a strong code of what’s acceptable, which is somehow stretched to accommodate the seduction of minors. Theater Review: ?How I Learned to Drive,? With Norbert Leo Butz 2012-02-14T03:01:00Z Luca Guadagnino’s film tells the story of two young men falling in love, but it’s also an irresistible seduction in itself. Why Call Me By Your Name should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z We don’t want Philip to go forward with the seduction of this girl, even if her father is the key to the C.I.A. 'The Americans' Recap: Intimacy in the Line of Duty 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Whatever you call them, veteran marketers say the key to a successful seduction is never to stereotype boomer travelers, particularly when it comes to aging. In Travel, We’re All Boomers Now 2013-02-01T15:30:38Z He spends a lot of time singing in a falsetto, and he’s channeling soul phrasing — a line of seduction songs stretched between Al Green and Prince. Review: Ava Luna, Welcoming but Weird in ‘Infinite House’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Or do you want to partake in the initial stages of the seduction? How Do I Stop Wanting to Cheat? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Lithe, debonair and exceedingly handsome, with a tide of dark, wavy hair, Louis Jourdan became Hollywood’s ideal of Gallic charm and seduction in the late 1940s and 1950s. Louis Jourdan, who epitomized Gallic charm in Hollywood movies, dies at 93 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z That pales next to the writing about seduction and sex, though: “Reynard sits back down and his body, his flesh, lays siege to her breath. . . . ‘I think you need something inside you,’ Reynard says. 'Bottle Grove,' by Daniel Handler book review - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s the veteran filmmaker’s most inspired turn in recent memory on the vagaries of love and seduction, his perennial fixation. France’s Fault Lines Are Exposed in an American Film Showcase 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Only his seduction leads them all down a dangerous path. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Sex & Love Around the World’ and ‘The Beguiled’ 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z From the start “more more more” teeters between seduction and stridency. Dance Review: ?more, more, more future? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-10-14T23:03:18Z Little Feat – Dixie Chicken – Think this is more about seduction than pubs, but it's still a wonderful cacophony and had the best guitar tone of the week. Readers recommend: Songs about concerts 2010-05-20T23:01:00Z But the seduction is every bit as illusory as Charles Maitland’s. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Delilah, who was sent to defeat Samson through her powers of seduction, found her way into his bedroom. Love Calls, and So Does the Priesthood 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Gender-bending has long been Gaultier's calling card, but it's been a while since he's dealt such a good hand, with bravado tempered by seduction and a hefty helping of humor. Gaultier reveals the hidden, feminine side of 007 2011-01-20T23:25:16Z Yet to some, that sexual equality meant sex and seduction were dead. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The intellectual passion that Tanne builds into the scene, and that Sawyers delivers with nuanced fervor, is all the more striking and exquisite for its subtle positioning as a device of romantic seduction. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The band understands the evergreen power of a la la la, the cheap seduction of an ooh ooh. Music Review: Power of La La La and Lures of Ooh, Ooh 2011-03-25T22:53:49Z Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in March that “ ‘Chloe’ works hard at seduction, but its heart isn’t really in the game.” DVDs: Samuel Fuller?s ?Verboten!? Makes It to DVD 2010-07-09T07:35:00Z When a man enters his cab he’s thinking about overcharging; when a woman enters he’s thinking seduction, not always in vain. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z “Chloe” works hard at seduction, but its heart isn’t really in the game. Movie Review | 'Chloe': Amanda Seyfried Goes on an Undercover Mission 2010-03-26T00:40:00Z The irrational seduction of opulent, often concentrated pigment is a driver. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Other pleasantries include Ms. Eisley’s engaging in an elaborate Mata Hari seduction and being tortured with a vat of fryer grease. ‘Kite’ Is Based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Anime 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The seduction begins at the door, when I show up a few minutes ahead of the rest of my party. Ambar review: Food and service worth shouting about. And you’ll have to. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z To recap: The artist born Elizabeth Grant arrived as Lana when a mysterious YouTube video for her detached seduction, “Video Games,” became a viral hit. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z Successful seduction suits, for instance, might result in thousand-pound awards to fathers or employers, for their loss of services in a “ruined” female. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z As the artist says: "Contradictions excite – seduction and revulsion … the abject is transformed and rendered compelling." This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z The 32 bands and disc jockeys at Afro-Punk spanned hard rock and hip-hop, synth-pop and psychedelia, smooth R&B and seething dissonances, retro soul and modern electronics, idealism and seduction, humor and rage. Critic’s Notebook: Afro-Punk at Commodore Park in Brooklyn 2012-08-27T21:48:59Z How many generations of college students have moved to Paris, epicenter of love and seduction, after seeing films by Jean-Luc Godard and Bernardo Bertolucci? Milan in Bloom 2010-10-07T18:20:00Z I liked this online seduction much more than I imagined I would. Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Huge hair and piratical fashions swamp the senses as the Howard family win yacht races, the women glisten like sexy dolphins and the men take their seduction tips from coffee adverts. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Too many otherwise enjoyable songs of heterosexual seduction suffer under the possibility of exploitation. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released and Mr Tambourine Man provided the backdrop for myriad eye contacts, a prelude to seduction or not, as was often the case. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z “The film really marked me,” Audiard said, arguing that it had served as a romantic education for him and other young people about how to use words as a mode of seduction. Parisian Love Stories for the Age of Talk Less, Message More 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Here in its barest form, it was a kind of seduction. Music Review: Enjoying the Quiet Pleasures of a Meeting of Minds 2011-06-07T21:45:26Z Part of that is the measured pace: Dove guides the actors to take their time, especially in scenes of seduction. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z They were—he was—a seduction from the beginning. The Beautiful One: Prince On-Screen 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But the less obvious stylistic particulars complete the artistic seduction, like the bonsai in the background in Leto's official chambers on Caladan, or the elegance of the flying transports that resemble dragonflies. "Dune" is the masterful adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic we've been waiting for 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot. Review: Con Men in Tap Shoes Lay Down ‘The Sting’ 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z She doesn’t mention that she was just talking about her, in a leeches-and-virginity-focussed seduction ploy. “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 3 Recap: The Stab Heard Round the World 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “The process of persuading my staff that a design is actually feasible is a long tale of seduction,” he said. Special Report: : Haute Couture for Furniture 2011-11-21T13:07:04Z We were not only watching Don sleepwalk through another seduction scenario, then; the show was also getting meta, and thus a bit wearying. “Mad Men” Premiere: Another Day at the Office 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In the manner of a Benny Hill sketch or an off-brand French sex romp, “Visitor From Hollywood” is single-minded, its action consisting solely of Jesse’s escalating stabs at seduction. Review: In ‘Plaza Suite,’ the Ghosts of #MeToo Haunt the Halls 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Machiavelli certainly knew about seduction of a sort, the kind that can be used to seize and maintain power. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Jonathan Glazer's eerie "Under the Skin" made the idea of a sci-fi alien invasion a seduction so audacious you dared not look away. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z That the softcore seductions of Sam Taylor-Johnson's "Fifty Shades of Grey" proved a box office hit this weekend was a surprise, at least when viewed through the lens of early expectations. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and the dawn of movie hate-watching 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z To punish all the people who are having sex, who have succeeded, presumably, at seduction. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z I have stumbled into a live-in relationship with a brilliant but macho narcissist who conducted an athletic and enthusiastic seduction of other women on a weekly basis, but for 10 months was a sexual paradise. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z "Talking filets with truffle butter," explains Drake in the opening verse, part of a braggy series of couplets about seduction, money and food. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z The instructor’s lectures are followed by seduction workshops and sexual tests that go beyond silly into shameless and smarmy. ‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Flightless Bird 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z “The New Class War” lacks the texture and earth and seduction of real portraiture. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Yet even he was beckoned to the kitchen by its olfactory seduction. Sassenachs, this "Outlander" ice cream is worth your time . . . and a few hours of effort 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z More than any R&B singer or songwriter working today, The-Dream knows that the better part of seduction is vulnerability. Review: The-Dream’s Soulful, Modern ‘Crown’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z According to the singer, the line is equal parts a reference to his affinity for performing magic tricks in his youth and "about a seduction trick, from much later in my life." 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The resentment and suspicion aroused by women’s powers of seduction seem to run just beneath the surface of Mary’s cult. T Magazine: Immaculate Perception 2010-12-05T23:00:00Z Roux tackles her first appointment like an anthropologist, taking mental notes about the process of transactional seduction and walking away with $500 cash. ‘Whore of New York’ Reflects on Sex, Love and Labor 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z What is painting, after all, if not an art of seduction? Art in Review: Joan Semmel 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z She didn’t mock show business, as her son did, but she appeared immune to its notorious seduction, and completely resisted being star-struck or remotely theatrical. How David Letterman’s Mother Endeared Him to Viewers 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “Take Me Apart,” the title song from Kelela’s debut album, is a spiraling, labyrinthine seduction. Kelela’s ‘Take Me Apart’ Is R&B That’s Intimate Inside and Out 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z They jumped from site to site, images featuring the eponymous character in a turtleneck sweater, striking various poses of menace and seduction: the ideal of the all-American serial killer. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Here’s a tantalizing bit of seduction from Afternoon Men, where we get too much and not enough purely through dialogue: A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z But for every seduction here, there’s a rejection, which for Hunx is, paradoxically, a turn-on. Playlist: New Music From Gary Allan and Marvin Sapp 2010-04-02T20:57:00Z Her seductions lie in seeming not demonic but glamorously — if deceptively — available, unlike the withheld Odette. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z The narrator embarks on a course of seduction, getting anti-cellulite massages and a spray tan, dieting and exercising and monitoring her appearance with masochistic vigilance. ‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Last week Anne Boulay, its editor in chief, said in an interview on Arte television that he “has a power of obvious seduction” and “a global success when he keeps quiet.” France Cheers Oscars for ?The Artist? and Jean Dujardin 2012-02-28T14:07:36Z In truth, the categories seem indistinct, but larger themes emerge: confinement, the human body, the precarious state of the world and the seduction of technology. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The urgency of the need is what infuses great comic performances with their intoxicating energy, sometimes tinged with the excitement of aggression channeled into the act of seduction. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z Once again, she is a conveniently sleepy drunk, giving Philip a chance to swap out the tape secreted in her father’s briefcase while avoiding the dreaded seduction scene. 'The Americans' Recap: The Moment Finally Arrives 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Using techniques he learned in the shadowy online “seduction community” of the 2000s. Would the Pickup Artist Stand a Chance in the #MeToo Era? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It includes such curious entries as “vicious vices in early life,” “seduction,” “egotism,” “bad whisky,” “indigestion,” “loss of arm,” “shooting of daughter” and “doubt about his mother’s ancestors.” In West Virginia, a moving, respectful tour of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The book explains the pick-up techniques of a group of men who call themselves the "seduction community". The Game seduces Hollywood studio 2011-07-11T11:51:00Z Jennifer Lawrence is circling an adaptation of the spy novel Red Sparrow, about a Russian agent trained in the art of seduction who becomes a mole for the CIA, reports Deadline. Jennifer Lawrence in line for spy thriller Red Sparrow with Hunger Games director 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z And how softly reassurance turns into seduction: "Take my hand I'll show you how to live/ Why wait until tomorrow?" Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-10-21T21:45:00Z Poussin finds in this idol-worship an image of the seductions of wealth and glamour, the power of folly and the madness of crowds. Why Poussin's Golden Calf was a sitting duck at the National Gallery 2011-07-18T13:11:13Z And it’s Elio who initiates the affair, at least overtly, though Oliver later admits to playing his part in what the story frames as a mutual seduction. Review: A Boy’s Own Desire in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z A master manipulator whose reason for being there is unclear, she finds the weak spot of each patient and begins her wily seduction. Theater Review: Julia May Jonas?s ?Evelyn,? at Bushwick Starr 2012-02-29T00:24:30Z His use of shock always involves "seduction and beauty". Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z Museums, in principle, are scholarly institutions removed from the seductions of the marketplace, and Ms. Wagstaff’s ties to the Gagosian Gallery could make the Met vulnerable to charges of favoritism. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z “Castle machine refuses the guest’s seduction,” a park operator says. Rewatching robo-sex: what can be learned from previous Westworlds 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z I adore everything by Balzac and Zola but especially “The Kill,” which has one of the most beautiful seduction scenes in literature. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The iPad is a wonderfully shiny new toy from a company that understands seduction. What makes an iPad tick? Take a look inside? 2010-05-16T16:01:00Z Lecter’s nasty song of seduction, for example, is reprised ad nauseam. | 'Silence! The Musical': The Knives, and Forks, Are Out 2011-07-12T02:01:43Z Another is that, for record buyers of a certain age, his music reigned as the soundtrack for youthful seduction. Pacino as a faded music whiz charged with murder 2013-03-21T14:43:15Z Maeve has seduction protocols she initiates when a fresh newcomer walks into her establishment, and she also plays a role in a several adventure storylines. To be a woman in “Westworld”: HBO’s brutality fetish still going strong in presumptive “Game of Thrones” successor 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Plenty of pop is corrosive in one way or another, and hip-hop and R&B radio is a cornucopia of tough sex talk, aggressive seductions and more. Retro Rap That Puts Women Down 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The hallucination concept worked best in the seduction scene—the part that actually does happen in the convent. ‘The Demon’ Review: Obsession and Seduction 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z They also cited Midler's confident possession of the stage and seduction of the audience and most were impressed with the play itself as well. Midler wins raves on Broadway as Hollywood agent Sue Mengers 2013-04-25T16:55:58Z The problem with historical novels is that they have to balance the author’s perspective on the history with the seductions of a novel — character, plot, action. Kwame Alexander’s New Book About Slavery Focuses on Africa, Not America 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Today’s genre of choice lends itself to hip-grinding and writhing, instead of The Charleston and the graceful seduction of a waltz. Gatsby Soundtrack Beats On, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into Failure 2013-05-10T15:25:50Z Just about the last thing I think about anymore when I view runway fashion is seduction. The End of Gender 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Both Ms. Bloom and Mr. Meyer were entrancing in their dangerous dance of seduction, with Ms. Bloom’s race — she’s supposed to be from the Xhosa tribe — adding a grim new layer of meaning. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill Side by Side, Under the Sun 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The tone is steadfastly lucid and reasonable, even when the plot covers such melodramatic terrain as the seduction of a young novitiate in Sister Juana’s convent by a Spanish grandee. London Theater Journal: Firebrands 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z You are putting a genre spin on the seduction here. Neil LaBute talks "House of Darkness," his modern take on "Dracula" that flips the power dynamic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The vast range of Thom Browne’s offering carries the act of seduction to an entirely illogical extreme. | Lanvin Wins! 2011-01-25T22:00:52Z I do realize there is a mutual seduction process at work. Neil Strauss on rock stars, Charlie Sheen and the art of a good interview 2011-03-18T18:19:00Z The internal fortitude it requires not to cave in to these seductions on a minute-to-minute basis? Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z Poisoning becomes her business plan, and the movie turns into a cycle of seductions, pregnancies, marriages, deaths and insurance payouts. Review: Another ‘Downton Abbey’ Heroine Goes Dark 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z These four novellas address the seductions and corruptions of technology, the extremes of beauty and depravity in even the most ordinary life, and the workings of a universe we can never entirely understand. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z On seduction: notes published in ‘‘Fragments,’’ presumably from acting classes, confirm that even charisma has technical aspects. T Magazine: Hello Again, Norma Jeane 2011-03-01T18:40:52Z In a way, F Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s parable is a perfect fit: a study of surfaces and seduction and the hollowness of the wealthy. The Great Gatsby, Beware Of Mr Baker, Fast And Furious 6: this week's new films 2013-05-18T05:00:09Z One instant, a recovering addict is deep in a soliloquy about the seductions of heroin; the next, she is standing in her doting sister’s living room, surrounded by sparkle and warmth. ‘The Brightest Thing in the World’ Review: Falling in Love, While Loving Heroin 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z They are drawn in by the visual seductions of Instagram, as well as a desire for community inflected by environmentalism. Young Urban Birders, Open Your Hearts to the Treetops! 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Much of woman’s poetry has been in the nature of the blues song: a cry of pain, of victimization, or a lyric of seduction. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It is a place Mr. Turturro clearly loves, and whose seductions he manages to capture with intelligence and enthusiasm. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z Still, nothing is quite like flipping through a stack of catalogues, because it exposes you to more temptation and seduction. Reducing garden clutter 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But Macy’s is still with us, a reminder of the mythic city of the 1950s and ’60s, when the store seemed awesome in its size and capacity for seduction. The Department Store That Does Holiday Cheer Like No Other 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The French pride themselves on appreciating the art of seduction and flirtation in a way that Americans do not. An Influential French Director Is Accused of Sexual Abuse. The Reaction Has Been Muted. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Creepiness is the nightmare version of seduction: it can crop up in an instant, in a gesture or an ill-starred turn of phrase, and yet it takes much longer to expunge from the imagination. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z A cautionary tale or an act of brazen seduction? Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z So this story would be over in a single scene if its plot hinged only on seduction. Books of The Times: ?Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.? by Sam Wasson 2010-06-13T22:07:00Z Every thread of the musical argument held its own horribly compelling grip, yet the glinting percussion and the sleazy brass never quite obliterated the essential seduction of the underlying dance of death. Philharmonia/Salonen - review 2011-01-17T22:15:00Z She looks at a work in progress and thinks about “how aggressive or defensive it is, how deep it goes into possible anecdote, and how much there’s seduction or refusal.” Review | How one abstract artist refuses to be boxed in 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Powder isn’t just a cover-up, it’s a seduction, a kind of personal drama — moody and poetic. | The Poetry of Powder 2014-04-03T15:09:37Z To be completely honest, we’re just having sex, no seduction involved. I’m doing my ex again — why? 2013-04-29T00:00:00Z "To sweeten dessert by Wayne Brachman, one of my favorite pastry chefs," she writes, "I plan to reveal secrets of Fork Play, the art of seduction at the table," from her book "Delicious Sex." ArtsBeat: Gael Greene on the 'Fifty Shades' Bandwagon 2012-06-29T19:24:01Z Ms. Hausner clearly wants to create some distance between her characters and the audience; she initially seems less interested in full-on seduction. Review: ‘Amour Fou,’ About the Woman in a Poet’s Suicide Pact 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z One camera was trained on a group of women dancing in flowy, mid-calf skirts, swishing scarves around their heads in a demure nod to seduction. Lights. Camera. Prayer. A Mini-Hollywood Grows in Utah. 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z This is the subject of the novel’s opening section, a self-contained drama rich with seduction, betrayal and exploitation. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Frequently the women stick out their tongues, in acts of seduction or, more likely, defiance. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Any seduction that followed depended on a third, fourth or fifth bottle. My life in sex: ‘I’ve been staggeringly drunk for every sexual encounter in 10 years’ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z But he’s never pulled it off with such intellectual density or visual power, much less so perfect a balance of seduction and subversion. Art In Review: JORDAN WOLFSON 2012-01-26T23:26:19Z Was it an epithalamium praising a forthcoming marriage or a seduction lyric drawing on the classic argument of “carpe diem”— seize the day, live for the moment? ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z And it would be, if Ms. Heiny had not started out with her own powers of writerly seduction and had an unusually long time to hone them. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Cars themselves are a fetish, a seat of seduction. | Jeff Koons, Car Painter 2010-04-09T18:58:00Z She’s also steamy enough to weaponize seduction if it will help her, and absolutely blunt when she speaks her mind. Michael Connelly’s New Detective Makes Harry Bosch Look Like a Slouch 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The result was a evening of elegant musicianship and history lessons, with Thompson cheerfully stressing the innuendo and euphemism in seduction stories like Watkins Ale. Richard Thompson and?Philip?Pickett 2010-12-08T22:15:00Z If anything, she’s too sexy for the part: When it comes to the female arts of seduction, Ms. Sevigny doesn’t look as if she had much to learn. Television Review: ‘Hit & Miss,’ With Chloë Sevigny, on DirecTV 2012-07-10T22:31:12Z The temptations and seductions that are bound up with such power and concealment form one of Thomson’s main themes. Review | ‘A Light in the Dark’ is a love letter to directors, personal flaws and all 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z It allows its inhabitants to talk to one another and understands proper seduction is about how cleverly you can play with inexcusable transgression. My favourite Hitchcock film: The 39 Steps 2012-06-16T23:03:03Z But the seduction fails to win Jason’s heart and Violet flies into a rage. 'True Blood' recap: Time running out for vampire Bill? 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But also a charm and a seduction and something winningly ramshackle. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z Christopher Bollen: Wealth and the dangers of inherited wealth, the strange ecosystems that pockets of money give rise to, vacations and escape, beauty, seduction, carelessness, the Apocalypse, childhood friendships, the dangers of good intentions. Salon’s author questionnaire: 7 things you didn’t know about 5 writers 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z She goes on to explain that seduction doesn’t merely refer to the victims themselves but, in Jackson’s case, their families. "After Neverland," R. Kelly's CBS meltdown, and the insidious patterns we refuse to see 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z In Nero’s scenes with Poppea here, you could see the couple engaged in a childlike game of seduction and power. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It is the most obvious expression of self, of gender, of subversion; of conformity, seduction, aggression, rebellion. What’s the Big Deal About a Woman Being Bald? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z We do not have full agency in that instance through our seduction of small comforts and conveniences we get from technology. Democracy, not consumption is "how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth" 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Hal also sees Paul as a target for seduction, offering him a vaguely defined but apparently crucial role in his lucrative development scheme. | 'The Rum Diary': Hunter S. Thompson?s ?Rum Diary,? With Johnny Depp - Review 2011-10-27T22:54:08Z Fellini cuts from the Sheik’s failed seduction to enthusiastic applause in the opera house where Ivan attends a performance of “Don Giovanni.” ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Two strangers on a park bench by the beach, partnering in a vicious dance of seduction. Review: In ‘Sex, Grift and Death,’ One-Acts That Test Perceptions 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “French is said to be the language of love, meaning seduction. I found in it an etiquette for loving, what happens next.” Sunday Reading: In Another Tongue 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The jutting of a hip can signal seduction, rejection or irritation. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z What results is something between parody and critique, a layercake of discomfiting seduction. Liz Magic Laser subversively splits medium from message 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Calvi draws so heavily on the language of cinema and the cliches of high-drama seduction that her songs become overblown. Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi ? review 2011-01-13T21:59:01Z The seduction of the phone is hard to resist; our digital culture is one of immediacy and constant technological stimulus. Mommy, can you put down your iPhone? 2013-01-26T21:00:00Z Michael Gielata's production, aside from containing the sexiest seduction scene on the London stage, is also cast up to the hilt. Lingua Franca 2010-07-19T21:16:00Z With men, there’s always that element of seduction. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Their initial meeting — they discreetly relieve each other of valuables over dinner — is a small symphony of sleight-of-hand seduction. | Film: Amorality à Deux, Circa 1932 2014-04-18T20:30:33Z Ms. Constand ultimately went to the police to complain of Mr. Cosby’s behavior, but in his telling, his seduction was one of persistence and patience. Bill Cosby Deposition Reveals Calculated Pursuit of Young Women, Using Fame, Drugs and Deceit 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z The line arrives in the service of seduction, but functions as an overarching metaphor. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z It’s important that we have a sensible conversation about what is and isn’t acceptable or we’ll wipe out the art of seduction entirely. Should I report sexual harassment if I then slept with the man? 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z A key theme throughout the decades of alleged abuse is the accusers were gay boys and young men unprotected by wealth or family, making them especially vulnerable to seduction, manipulation and abuse. "Empire" star Jussie Smollett brutally attacked, racist and homophobic slurs yelled by assailants 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z D’Angelo “has beautiful songs of seduction, but with a different sense of self-assurance.” Lonnae O’Neal: Whither the mack-daddies? 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Knox’s dialectics follow us throughout: It turns out that we were just as conflicted about seduction centuries ago as we are now. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the metaphors of enchantment, seduction, and love were ready to hand. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The seduction starts with a slow-growing heritage chicken from Virginia that absorbs a bit of sweetness and sass from a brine that mingles brown sugar, Fresno chiles and jalapeño. Review | Primrose pours on the charm in Brookland 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z In this age of overused needle drops, this song's diegetic presence is as flawlessly applied as Frank's seduction. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z She nails dreamy, lazy seduction on “Come On Over,” and bitterness on “Wedding Day.” New Music: New Albums by Dum Dum Girls and the Bangles 2011-10-03T22:39:47Z Nevertheless, Ms. Koch and Mr. Zippi cover much of the same territory: Hot-blooded passion takes its shape from a fight or a seduction scene. Dance Review: Por Instantes at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-06-15T22:19:33Z The fashion world’s seduction campaign will begin very shortly. Bill de Blasio: The Fashion World Warily Eyes a New Mayor After 12 Years With Michael R. Bloomberg 2014-02-06T00:33:42Z Yet underneath the plotting and internecine tussles of the would-be escapees lurks something much more interesting: the story of a seduction. ‘Maze’ Review: A Prison Break and a Confidence Game 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z |
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