Even many good and decent statesmen with pure intentions all too frequently find power seductive.
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By contrast, he scores less well when rated against adjectives such as nice, reassuring and seductive.
It's a partnership that probably came together over champagne brunch at Jay-Z's, but its synth-fuzz groove is offhandedly seductive.
The bikes, designed and marketed by employees crazy about riding, are seductive.
Mr Montebourg's promise of a golden tomorrow, which he makes with aplomb as part of a makeshift stand-up act in the street, is proving more seductive.
Dressed with good salt and olive oil (something fruity and round, Mr. Kahan said) and served at room temperature, it is oozy and at its most seductive.
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Yet there was something about being a young, blonde-haired woman in a country of beautifully dark Latin American men, coveted by them for my American-ness and resented by their female partners for my desired status, that was simultaneously disorienting, frightening and seductive.
In their Met debuts, Robert Pomakov was a booming Monterone and Oksana Volkova a seductive Maddalena.
Often, I thought it was creepy to feel this fear in such a seductive place.
Few ministers see the need (or have the determination) to reject such a seductive invitation.
The ceramics, glass, fabrics and furniture on display are still unsurpassed for their continuous usefulness and seductive beauty.
To entertainment-company executives, who had watched the computer-software companies' market capitalisations outstrip theirs many times over, this was a seductive message.
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The two musicians played as one, riffing off each other and producing a mesmerizing mix of sweet, gentle melody, pentatonic harmony and seductive rhythms.
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These glimpses into history, these interesting faces, gorgeous clothes and richly worked jewelry, come to us via incisive drawing, subtle modeling, glorious color and seductive surfaces.
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Musically, White Rabbits' closest siblings would include Cold War Kids or early Walkmen, given all three bands' fondness for twinkling keyboards, room-filling rock and snarling but seductive vocals.
Her own personal style radiated charming, seductive audacity.
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Of all forms of power, moral power may be the most seductive and corrupting.
The star attraction is a great American "bear, " who will dance with the seductive maiden Esmerelda.
Ken Kalfus' extraordinary first book, "Thirst, " starts out like this, with two stories ("Bouquet" and the title story) that sketch the confounding of a repressed Irish au pair in Paris as she encounters a seductive Algerian boy.
With Rilo Kiley's Under the Blacklight, Lewis sounds more sultry and seductive than ever before.
Sure, "Zarkana" has silly bits, but ultimately it attempts to conjure a fantastical, seductive world of mystery.
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