Meaning of seductivity | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being seductive.

uncountable

Examples

“Verily we thank our stars we were not born in days of such multiform distraction, when the only possible escape from temptation lies in its seductivity and abundance.”

“So with this proclivity in man, and with Satan’s infinite variety of falsehood, and the sparkling seductivity of its attractions, it is not past credibility, that he should have kept up a six thousand years warfare against the God of Truth!”

““[…] Convert that telephone there into a medium of convenience and easy service instead of a servant of the devil, creating howling demoniacs throughout the city, and we will rise up and call you blessed,” saying which the victims withdrew and left the representative from Cleveland to his reflections, which somehow impressed him with the conviction that his circus was a give-away, and that the inductiveness of his induction hadn’t had the conductive seductivity he had fondly hoped.”

““I don’t think anything has the seductivity of the dyes,” [William] Eggleston is quoted here.”

“Precise herbed-lamb packets amid art nouveau swirls of asparagus noodles, a lacy tuile that adds a peekaboo seductivity to potato gnocchi — [Anthony] Martin’s presentations are bold and beautiful, yet his flavor pairings are almost maddeningly subtle, driving overanalytical foodies to despair.”

“Played with ingratiating seductivity by Licia James Zegar, Lee is the distaff “Man Who Came to Dinner” and never left.”

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