Alcina takes a liking to Ruggiero and quickly seduces him with a love potion.

NPR: Love And Lunacy: Vivaldi's 'Orlando Furioso'

In 1965, he acted in Guide, based on R K Narayan's novel about a tourist guide who seduces a dancer unhappy with her marriage.

BBC: Dev Anand: Bollywood's first cool hero

Romance seduces us into believing in romantic heroes, the sort of men who will come riding in on their white horses and save us.

FORBES: Were We All In Love With Petraeus?

The Parisian-style cafe circuit, backed by an intriguing literary history, is paradise for bookish types and coffee lovers, and the edgy local fashion scene seduces design-minded travellers.

BBC: Lonely Planet's top 10 Buenos Aires experiences

The work duly astonishes and disturbs, but rarely seduces or convinces.

ECONOMIST: Decades of portraits in the flesh

At the Met, Mr. Rhodes's performance will include the showstopping aria in which he dances a mock bullfight with his cape and seduces the gypsy Carmen.

WSJ: Opera Singer Builds Up Stamina for 'Carmen'

The extreme innocence of Rose (Andrea Riseborough), the young girl whom Pinkie seduces in order to keep her quiet, is no longer very convincing, or even interesting.

NEWYORKER: Brighton Rock

Polanski has been nominated for Oscars for directing "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Chinatown" (1974) and "Tess" (1980), an adaptation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles, " the Thomas Hardy novel about a young peasant woman whose life collapses after a wealthy older man seduces her.

CNN: Polanski remains fugitive from U.S. law