#seductive

She stepped toward Anna. “I can get you a night with an accomplished male whore or a virginal schoolboy.” Coral’s eyes widened and seemed to flame. “Famous libertines or ragpickers off the street. One very special man or ten complete strangers. Dark men, red men, yellow men, men you’ve only dreamed of in the black of night, lonely in your bed, snug under your covers. Whatever you long for. Whatever you desire. Whatever you crave. You have only to ask me.” Anna stared at Coral like a mesmerized mouse before a particularly beautiful snake. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#coral #seductive #beauty

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#certain way #cinematic #context #handled #i

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#art #artist #himself #most #personality

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world. ↗

— Emily Watson

#film world #grounded #husband #i #keeps

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#create #euphoria #found #i #loaded

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic. ↗

— Jillian Bach

#going #great #laugh #making #people

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#melancholy #seductive

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#cross #desperate #feels #film #hollywood