Karl Abraham

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

German Psychologist

Marcel Wanders

There is always a reason behind things that are made, and if there isn't, there will be one when they travel through the world. The objects of beauty are used to impress, seduce, overwhelm, make money, support identities, and show power or style, among other things.

Dutch Designer

John Perkins

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

Economist

Meg Rosoff

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

American Writer

Jean-Pierre Leaud

The strongest moments in my life are when I'm filming. It's an adventure. As an actor I try to seduce someone, try to share something. The rest of my time is spent exploring experiences with women.

French Actor

Howard Barker

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

British Playwright

Robert Powell

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

British Actor

Louie Schwartzberg

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

American Director

Jim Sarbh

An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger.

Indian Actor

Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Spanish Painter

Seduce can imply a gradual and clever process of persuading someone to do something they might not otherwise do.

Subtle Persuasion

Although often used in a romantic context, seduce can also refer to being enticed by things like power, money, or opportunities.

Not Always Sexual

The term can be neutral when suggesting charm or negative when implying deceit or manipulation.

Neutral or Negative

This definition highlights a more specific and personal interaction, often with a sexual implication.

Sexual Connotation

Implies that the seducer may use deceptive tactics or take advantage of someone's innocence or lack of experience.

Deceptive Undertone

Be aware of cultural norms, as being accused of seducing someone might carry serious social implications in some societies.

Cultural Sensitivity

 I guess the big concern of yours is that people may actually get seduced too early to think that this is safe, and that you'll have some horrible incident happen that puts things back. Well, I think that the autonomy system is likely to at least mitigate the crash, except in rare circumstances. The thing to appreciate about vehicle safety

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 which privileged people like to think is fixed and impermeable, with them on the good side, the others on the bad side -- I knew that line was movable, and it was permeable. Good people could be seduced across that line, and under good and some rare circumstances, bad kids could recover with help, with reform, with rehabilitation.

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 explain some fact. And the hope was two-fold. One is you can actually explain what happens when you steam broccoli. But the other thing is that maybe we could seduce people into stuff that was a little more technical, maybe a little bit more scientific, maybe a little bit more chef-y than they otherwise would have.

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 "Crime and Punishment" was conceived and completed the following year, picking up on many of the same themes. In many ways, the novel follows a common narrative thread where a promising youth is seduced and corrupted by the dangers of urban life.

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 to fall in love with the king's prized bull. Under this spell, she asked Daedalus to help her seduce it. With characteristic audacity, he agreed. Daedalus constructed a hollow wooden cow so realistic that it fooled the bull.

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 streets before disappearing behind closed doors are they high-priced courtesans mistresses of seduction or something more elusive whatever a Geisha is it's more than a role it's an all-encompassing way of life though it's

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 and, inside the palace, used the ring to prowl undetected. He seduced the queen and convinced her to betray her husband. And soon Gyges, once a humble shepherd, had murdered the monarch and claimed the kingdom.

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 of illusion to shift the course of fate after a storm in the tempest catspaw were magic seduction and deceit drive to aliens who threatened the enterprise

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 with his fan unfurled he begins an ever more complicated series of dance moves to try and seduce her at last she succumbs to his advances and