I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

He was both an admirer and a critic of Rudyard Kipling, praising Kipling as a gifted writer and a " good bad poet " whose work is " spurious " and " morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting ," but undeniably seductive and able to speak to certain aspects of reality more effectively than more enlightened authors.

The Puppeteer voice range is far greater than the human one, but for speaking to humans they adopt the tone of a very seductive female.

A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner.

However, he is warned that the Force is a double edged sword ; its dark side is seductive and could corrupt him into an agent of evil if he gives into his anger and aggression.

In Hinduism, for example, Maya is the deity that manifests the world as a seductive illusory projection which souls immersively experience through their senses.

The presentation is as bright, glossy and seductive as a fashion magazine.

* Her cuff bracelet is briefly mentioned in a Warehouse 13 episode as having seductive properties.

His wife is a seductive man-eater.

Rowan Bayne, a British psychologist who has written several studies on graphology, summarized his view of the appeal of graphology: " It's very seductive because at a very crude level someone who is neat and well behaved tends to have neat handwriting ", adding that the practice is " useless ... absolutely hopeless ".

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

The change is made more dangerous by the language's seductive enhancement of other abilities.

Highlights for her character included " The High Ground ," where Dr. Crusher is kidnapped by terrorists ; " Remember Me ," in which she becomes trapped in an alternate reality where her loved ones start to disappear ; " The Host ," which features a romance between the Doctor and a man with a big secret ; " Suspicions ," in which Dr. Crusher risks her career to solve the murder of a scientist ; " Sub Rosa ," where Dr. Crusher becomes the next victim of her grandmother's seductive " ghost ;" and " Attached ," where Picard and Crusher become telepathically linked as prisoners and learn their true feeling for one another.

His seductive voice is his trademark as well as his catchphrases, " I say, Ding Dong " ( originally the catchphrase of Phillips ' character Jack Bell in Carry On Nurse ), " Hello " and " Lumme!

Evil, learning that Powers is back and on his trail, creates a series of seductive identical female robots ( called Fembots ) that will lure Powers with their charm before killing him.

Christianity Today published an editorial in favour of the books in January 2000, calling the series a " Book of Virtues " and averring that although "< nowiki > m </ nowiki > odern witchcraft is indeed an ensnaring, seductive false religion that we must protect our children from ", this does not represent the Potter books, which have " wonderful examples of compassion, loyalty, courage, friendship, and even self-sacrifice ".

Nye asserts that, “ Seduction is always more effective than coercion, and many values like democracy, human rights, and individual opportunities are deeply seductive .” Angelo Codevilla observed that an often overlooked essential aspect of soft power is that different parts of populations are attracted or repelled by different things, ideas, images, or prospects.

It's the scariest drug in the world because the hit you get from it is so, so seductive.

His best-known works, still widely read today, are: The seductive vampire Carmilla attacks the sleeping Bertha Rheinfeldt.

In MSN Autos ' Cool Cars We Miss ' feature they listed the Corrado among its top eight " Gone but not forgotten: a short list of cars once loved, still missed ", describing it in the following manner: " The VW Corrado VR6 is coveted because of its seductive styling, road handling capabilities and its role as trailblazer, introducing the VR6 to the American market.

Michel Simon played an old ham actor, and Louis Jouvet, an old leading actor who still believes in his seductive powers.

Historians ( e. g. Marina Martić ) say that he appeared when the „ Yugoslav model of socialist society “ was created, when „ socialism with human face “, the self – management system and non – alignment were conceived, when the country opened to the West and western models of life – style and values became accessible to everyone, although not seen by everyone as seductive traps, when our art scene was marked by „ socialist aestheticism “ – the institutionally, i. e. officially, supported modernist discourse + sensibility of ( the still vital ) Parisian Internationalism.

Starting with Tirso's work, Don Juan is portrayed as a wealthy, seductive libertine who devotes his life to seducing women, taking great pride in his ability to seduce women of all ages and stations in life.

To prevent them, Eris sends a group of sirens, who entrance and seduce the men aboard Sinbad's ship with their enchantingly seductive, soft melodic singing voices, but do not affect Marina, who pilots the ship to safety ; and later a Roc, who captures Marina, but is later killed by Sinbad.

Juan has a seductive manner because he never seems anxious to seduce.

Elves ( in Swedish called Älva if female and Alf if male ) are in some parts mostly described as female ( in contrast to the light and dark elves in the Edda ), otherworldly beautiful and seductive residents of forests, meadows and mires.

Or if they are Lahmian Vampires they can ride into battle on the seductive and deadly coven throne attended by pallid handmaidens.

The mountains in spring are light and seductive as if smiling: the mountains in summer have a blue-green colour which seems to be spread over them ; the mountains in autumn are bright and tidy as if freshly painted ; the mountains in winter are sad and tranquil as if sleeping.

Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary.

Where Joseph Stella and Georgia O ’ Keeffe glamorized the monumental structures of the city, Hopper reduced them to everyday geometrics and he depicted the pulse of the city as desolate and dangerous rather than “ elegant or seductive ”.

Miranda ’ s seductive nature earns her the admiration of not only Paul, but also his chauffeur Charles and Nigel, the fiancé of Clare's friend and neighbour Isobel, arousing the jealousy of the women in their lives.

The resultant photos, many of which are densely saturated in the concerts ’ colored lights, feature candid shots of fans, regularly zooming in for seductive close-ups of enamored youngsters — a celebration of the ecstatic cult of fame and its ardent enablers.

Caelius ’ relationship with her as the result of the former ’ s naiveté, and the latter ’ s seductive amoral ways.

Indian film critic Khalid Mohamed commented, " As a film director, he discussed the status of women ( Uski Roti, Duvidha ), crafted visually seductive documentaries ( Arrival, Before My Eyes, A Desert of a Thousand Lines ) and went through a spell of interpreting Fyodor Dostoevsky ’ s masterworks.

Blizzard Entertainment's audio director, Russell Brower says " Working somewhat against conventional expectations, Hell is a beautiful and seductive sound, provided by Dublin ’ s uniquely astounding choral group ANÚNA ".

The residents of the brick building hear continuous contradictions in Boori ’ s storytelling, but her stories are seductive and compelling, so they let her contradictions rest.

Too many decision makers want to bet on one future scenario, falling prey to the seductive temptation of trying to predict the future rather than to entertain multiple futures.

When he meets a female werewolf, Veruca, a seductive UC Sunnydale student who sings in a band, they are immediately drawn to each other, and unbeknownst to him, they meet as wolves in the woods and have sex on the first night of the full moon.

She is dressed in red and had a lean figure and large breasts and performs a seductive dance to lure him.

The Puppeteers also use more personal manipulation ; for instance, Puppeteers who have dealt with human males have utilized a voice that sounds like that of a seductive human female, and the Puppeteer Nessus utilized an implanted tasp, a device which could stimulate the pleasure center of the brain, thus allowing him to subliminally condition those he dealt with.

After Mowgli's initial efforts to repress Kaa's seductive spirals, Mowgli soon has his pupils disappear as Kaa continues to entrance and hypnotize him.

Several of the stories show her attempts to learn to be more seductive towards him ; for example, she watches ( and takes notes from ) a pornography tape that Seiji had misplaced.

His hunt takes him to Paris, into a deadly game of predator and prey, and a fateful meeting with the seductive Tylyn Mignonne, a movie star with a sordid past, who may lead Bond to his final target — or his own violent end ...

She whispers the main lyric to him in a seductive tone-" Sade, dis-moi " " Sade, donne-moi " or translated-" Sade, tell me " " Sade, give me ".

* Irene: Irene is a seductive siren and Chipple's school rival who has been ordered to make Tsukasa her love slave and snare him for herself.

But all of this gets derailed, and Frank's life descends into an increasingly complex mess, from the minute a beautiful and seductive new patient named Susan Ivey ( Helena Bonham Carter ) comes to him, seeking a root canal and a little pain relief ...

By dipping ordinary tomatoes into vats of toxic waste and then placing them into the chamber, Gangreen uses music to his advantage, as the juke box that is hooked up to the chamber syncs up with the tomato transformation chamber, allowing him to create virtually anything by the use of whatever song he has picked ( Michael Jackson music seems to make tomatoes into a clone of Jackson, the Miami Vice theme seems to make replicas of Don Johnson and seductive music apparently turns tomatoes into beautiful women ).

Twentysomething Tracy, whose jivey tiger is invisible to all but him ( and the audience ), falls instantly for Laura, who has her own invisible and very seductive tigress.

While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain ; the next day, Lola shows up at his law office, saying that she needs him to look over some papers she's come across.

Cesare is also a very disciplined man ; even though he sleeps with her, Sancia's seductive appeal does not allow her to manipulate him like she has so many men.

Tremble arrives at the Casino Royale accompanied by Vesper, who foils an attempt to disable him by seductive SMERSH agent Miss Goodthighs.