Sentences with phrase «seductive appeal of»

Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience.

He is, however, only 24 - years - old and as such contains the ever seductive appeal of potential.

The seductive appeal of communism, according to Brian C. Anderson («Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture,» February), was its coupling of the «inherently incompatible ideas of human volition and the science of history.»

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Since the appeal of live chat is that it enables a company to answer exactly these sorts of questions quickly, the video capabilities built into some chat services may be seductive.

And few rallying cries or slogans have been more appealing and seductive than that of the «right to die.»

Peter Brown in analysing this and other texts from Tertullian writes that the «misogyny to which Tertullian appealed so insistently was, in his opinion, based on unalterable facts of nature: women were seductive, and Christian baptism did nothing to change this fact.»

[20] Peter Brown in analysing this and other texts from Tertullian writes that the «misogyny to which Tertullian appealed so insistently was, in his opinion, based on unalterable facts of nature: women were seductive, and Christian baptism did nothing to change this fact.»

The appeal of the positive, empowering version of birth is so very seductive.

Add a bit of gorgeous and seductive appeal through the gift this Valentine's Day.

Adding a touch of «country club» polish to your look, checks evoke an innocent yet sweetly seductive appeal.

«Some of the inchoate rage people feel toward Wall Street is baked into Billions, but based on the first episode, its appeals are contrary, tied to the seductive power of money and sin.»

He even adds a strange sex appeal in the form of Krige's Borg Queen, a sultry creature with thick lips and moist skin, seductive and dangerous at the same time.

The appeal of his work comes in part from the seductive fantasy world (strangely but appealingly mid-Atlantic) he created: with quintessentially Gallic characters who wear hats and raincoats straight out of a cartoon Raymond Chandler universe.

With commanding performances from Bijvoet, Minis and Perceval, a structure that is an exemplary study in economic pacing, and a story that has all the appeal of seductive myths, Borgman will end up as one of the most original and captivating dark stories to emerge this year.

The eternal appeal of music Best known for novels like The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro offers a collection of five pensive tales in Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, that succeed in expressing music's seductive power.

Uniting low - brow with high culture, outmoded with new production, and seductive color with awkward tweets, greg.org's technique resembles that of sampling, a widely appealing creative tool in the 1980s and 1990s.

Along with some other artists, like Jimmie Durham or David Medalla, Hammons still makes my perception of the world a beautiful critical collapse: The sound of a metal bucket or a basket - ball hitting a wall, the flavor of fried chicken, the texture of my own hair, the smell of dung, can be something appealing, seductive, but also prime matter for a political statement.

The photographs come into recognition; appealing, seductive half - dreams, yet they retain all the transitory vulnerability of humans dazed in their reality.

Vinyl is shiny and slick; the smooth surface is expressive and seductive, and nostalgic of a certain sex appeal.

A key feature of Shonibare's work is its visual appeal, and these are immediately seductive.

The list is full of seductive, intriguing, involving work that appeals to the emotions and the senses, and in which what you might regard as traditional techniques — drawing, painting — loom large.

Hiro's aesthetic is at once grabbing and seductive, embodying a mind ahead of its time, and the power of photography to appeal to the masses.

David Reed's paintings play fast and loose with the conventions of abstraction and representation — an exercise that could be very dull — but the luxurious, even brazen appeal of his seemingly flattened - out yet liquescent brushstrokes remains irresistibly seductive.

Were my office or apartment closer to Chelsea, I would make it a point to drop in a few times on the current Marianne Boesky Gallery exhibition of paintings by Svenja Deininger, Viennese sorceress of subtlety, if only to confirm the long - term appeal of its initially seductive first impression.

The result is a series of small geometric metal - and - plywood, polychrome wall constructions of enormous visual appeal and seductive anecdote.

One ethnographer observed the appeal of the street lifestyle this way: «The ghetto street culture can be glamorous and seductive to the adolescent, promising its followers the chance of being «hip» and popular with certain «cool» peers who hang out on the streets or near the neighborhood school....