Ingeniously, they represent both Marnie's seductiveness and her internal confusion.
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The elegance and the seductiveness were the least of it.
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But the woman didn't laugh, she shrugged, all her seductiveness gone.
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The seductiveness of surface and how we ascribe value to that.
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And keep up my own sense of seductiveness and womanly power?
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A sneering Wayne Tigges suggests Roy Cohn's malignancy but not his seductiveness.
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The seductiveness of conspiracy theories is that they appeal to our imaginations.
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Fully aware of their seductiveness, he doubts that they can ever be truthful.
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That immense seductiveness was essential, because she relied on others' responses to feel alive.
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It's intended to be what the seductiveness of speed is like, represented in music.
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Despite the perennial seductiveness of labeling younger generations entitled brats, there's more to the story.
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Beyond their love for the game and the seductiveness of small-town celebrity, what is their motivation?
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There's also a slinky seductiveness to the way he handles some of the folk-tune reveries midway through.
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"He carries a sense of infectious seductiveness to him, and a buoyancy, and a beauty," Mr. Guadagnino said.
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Lee's high-lyric idiom, "undressing" its own claims to seductiveness, investigates its sources in the fear of physical threat.
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Ink-blotted and brooding, Mr. Cohen's latest release for ECM Records, "Cross My Palm With Silver," has an immanent seductiveness.
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" It's a song about the seductiveness of melancholy, one that warns, "You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way.
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The seductiveness of a customized Harley-Davidson, a symbol and object of male desire, is poised against the painting's resistance to seduction.
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Still, there are some fine moments as Mr. Scott and his ethereal star work together to highlight the seductiveness of the strange.
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Beef cheeks and veal are braised separately and then, when they have reached different forms of seductiveness, combined with chanterelles and porcini.
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Instead, the front of the gallery contained a selection of smaller works whose power could not match the seductiveness of the massive carpet.
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He failed to imagine that the seductiveness and the convenience of the frontier would, instead, propel America through a new century of global expansion.
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The movie, directed by Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, stars the Oscar winner as Dominika Egorova, a ballerina who's been trained to use her seductiveness as a weapon.
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But I admit that the seductiveness of card-playing with my kids goes beyond the pleasure of ascending to kingship and crowing right in their sad cabbage faces.
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The seductiveness of Michele's vision was signalled by a barely subdued clamor among the guests over the emerald seat cushions, which were to be taken home as gifts.
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Poised in ripe middle-age in pre-coital seductiveness and then, seconds later, reclining into geriatric frailty, her Anna remains much the same glamorous and humdrum, poetic and prosaic creature.
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But for the most part — and in its best episodes and seasons — the series understands both the seductiveness of money and the many ways in which it can cause dissension.
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And whenever she's with Lucas, she behaves with the coercive, won't-take-no-for-an-answer seductiveness of one of those romantically obsessed stalkers who are a staple of Lifetime movies.
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Whether it is the star power of the cast or the seductiveness of the period recreation, "Three Christs" has an appealing professionalism — an odd fit for a film about challenging a profession.
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Lindsay Shapero's screenplay (adapted from Jennie Rooney's 2013 novel and based on the real-life spy Melita Norwood) is an equal culprit, heavy on flashbacks and light on the seductiveness of hazardous ideas.
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The sharply executed violence, jabs of humor and, in particular, a fascination with the seductiveness of evil (most pronounced in his 2014 feature, "The Guest") are all here, albeit in a compressed package.
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It is also the story of a quintessentially English nature lover, Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram, who was one of the first to grasp the somei-yoshino cherry tree's dangerous seductiveness, and to attempt to tame it.
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Adapting Jeanne Ryan's 2012 young-adult novel of the same name, the directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, return to the topic that provoked their 2010 documentary, "Catfish": the seductiveness and malleability of internet identity.
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"Despite the presumption of veracity that gives all photographs authority, interest, seductiveness, the work that photographers do is no generic exception to the usually shady commerce between art and truth," Susan Sontag wrote in "On Photography".
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He did not settle for what he had mastered and instead pushed himself to do something more complex — something that pushed him to tamp down the seductiveness of his forms in favor of a more rigorous practice.
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" Dr. Katz suggested, "To counteract the seductiveness of that appeal from the right, we need to offer them a better definition of strength: that true strength resides in respecting and lifting up others, not seeking to dominate them.
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His swift embrace of depravity — and the self-interested silence of those who see through his ruse — gives "The Captain" a distressing inevitability that can make the viewer feel helpless, as if the seductiveness of fascism were stronger than its terrors.
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Instead, he longed to examine both the seductiveness of fascism for those who would be oppressors under it and the ways that most of us are only too happy to go along with horrible things, so long as they don't rattle our own status quo.
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Strebe moved the velvet rope aside and explained the work's meaning ("It's a denial of the seductiveness of the senses") and the reasoning behind the venue ("The stock exchange, as the holy grail of value determination, is almost like a sounding board to the art work").
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The actors mostly acquit themselves well, taking things as straightforwardly as possible, though Ms. Dormer's coy seductiveness isn't a good fit for the headmistress (and Yael Stone of "Orange Is the New Black" goes way over the top as the most pious of the school's governesses).
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The same split occurs when we take in the disorienting construction of the sculptures before steeping our gaze in their luxuriantly painted surfaces, or when the stark flatness of the paint covering parts of the enormous hands feels at war with the seductiveness of the flesh.
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That seductiveness is exerted on characters as diverse as his earthy wife; his Desdemona-besotted stooge, the wealthy Venetian, Roderigo (a perfectly fatuous Matthew Maher); and the young soldier Cassio (a radiantly open-faced Finn Wittrock), the central pawn in Iago's scheme to convince Othello of his wife's infidelity.
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What relationship can there possibly be between what we often see on a typical Tiepolo painted ceiling (if we choose to crick our necks) — magnificent horse-drawn chariots surging weightlessly through the air, nymphs and idling gods buoyed up on clouds, all painted in colors of near-sublime delicacy and seductiveness — and the sleek, black luxury sedans tearing along Konrad Adenauer Strasse, just beyond the doors of Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie?
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If you are hunting, forget all about accounts collectable, bills unpayable, your wife's parting remarks, the fugaciousness of time, and the seductiveness of the next field.
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Nectoux finds that this strikes "a note of tragedy rare in the works of a composer who is more usually concerned to express tenderness, contentment or seductiveness".
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He wrote and recorded all the keyboards and orchestrations for the Cradle of Filth albums 'Manticore and The Other Horrors', 'Hammer Of The Witches' & 'Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay'.
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Cavani went to Tokyo looking for a model of beauty that could balance seductiveness with an iron will. She found it in the 24-year-old actress and pop singer Mio Takaki.
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Years later, the mother of Archelaus, Glaphyra, became one of the mistresses to the Roman Triumvir Mark Antony.Ptolemaic Genealogy, Cleopatra VII Glaphyra had been a hetaera,Syme, Anatolica: studies in Strabo, p. 144 a type of courtesan. Glaphyra was famed and celebrated in antiquity for her beauty, charm, and seductiveness.
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It was unveiled on September 20, 1908. The work drew strong criticism at first, especially from women. Its nakedness and seductiveness were considered inappropriate. Not all groups objected to the nudity per se, but putting it on a pedestal was thought to subjugate women by sexually objectifying them and making them appear weak.
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Jaded age > preys cunningly on narcissistic youth, and seductiveness and cruelty become > indistinguishable as Seyrig forces the innocents to become aware of their > own capacity for monstrous behavior. If Fassbinder had made a vampire movie > it might have looked something like this.O'Brien, Geoffrey (1993), "Horror > for Pleasure", New York Review of Books (22 April issue).
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Sadan's mother, who is still in the room at the time, dies of a heart attack. Azmi and Güzin return from Edirne, but they are too late. Sadan is on her deathbed, marks from her neck vanished and her teeth appear longer and sharper. She speaks with strange seductiveness to Turan, but Dr. Nuri prevents Turan from kissing her.
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The lyrics of "Semi-Charmed Life" carry a message of crystal meth addiction, inspired by the drug addictions that Jenkins witnessed from several of his friends. Jenkins explained in Billboard magazine that the juxtaposition between the instrumental and lyrics were intentional, as it was meant to represent "the seductiveness of speed".Knopper, Steve. "Third Eye Blind Sees Promise In Elektra". Billboard.
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But after Vadinho's death, he remained the love of her life and she missed his seductiveness. He was irresistible, and his absence was, for Dona Flor, worse than the long nights when she waited for him to come home. After a period of mourning, Dona Flor attracts another admirer, a local pharmacist, Teodoro. Unlike Vadinho he is a pillar of respectability, kind and considerate.
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Inside the Green Tangerine Salmon ravioli at the Green Tangerine The Green Tangerine is a restaurant in Hàng Bè Street, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi, Vietnam. Set in a colonial building dated to 1928, in the heart of the Old Quarter, it serves French cuisine, with "Vietnamese undertones". It retains the ambiance of 1950s French Indochina, and has its own cobblestone courtyard. CNN states that it "meets all expectations of colonial Asian seductiveness".
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Asian Americans and the Media, London: Polity, 2009 pp. 68–70. In the late 20th century, such a sexual representation of the Yellow Peril, which was introduced in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates (1936), indicates that in the Western imagination, Asia remains the land of the non-white, sexual Other. To the Westerner, the seductiveness of the Orient implies spiritual threat and hidden danger to white, sexual identity.
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The album was officially released through Nuclear Blast on 10 July 2015. The subsequent world tour included the band's largest set of UK dates for eight years in late 2015, and a set of North American shows in early 2016. On 16 June 2017 the title of the next album was revealed as Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay and it was given an official release date of 22 September 2017 through Nuclear Blast Records.
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According to Pierre de Nolhac, it took some time for Geneviève d'Ossun to win the confidence of Marie Antoinette, as she lacked the beauty and wit of Yolande de Polastron and was in fact somewhat of a contrast to the seductiveness of the queen's favorite, but she had a solid character and lacked to far reaching ambitions and eventually managed to convince Marie Antoinette to cut down somewhat on her everyday expenses.
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The track was generally well received by music critics. Chuck Taylor, a columnist for Billboard, called the single "entirely satisfying" and appreciated it for being unlike other songs on the radio. Entertainment Weeklys Chris Willman enjoyed the recording's seductiveness and its overall production. Toure from Rolling Stone was more mixed in his review, stating that it "sound[ed] like [a] refugee from Diamonds and Pearls, the least-great of Prince's great records".
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Ornea (1995), pp. 316–317 Iorga's attention then moved to other activities: he was Romanian Commissioner for the 1938 Venice Biennale,"History", at the Venice Biennale Romanian Pavilion: Seductiveness of Interval; retrieved February 23, 2011 and supportive of the effort to establish a Romanian school of genealogists.Rădulescu, p. 342 In 1939, as the Guard's campaign of retribution had degenerated into terrorism, Iorga used the Senate tribune to address the issue and demand measures to curb the violence.
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Western models tend to be used to promote clothing and to portray seductiveness, whereas Asian models tend to be used to promote hair and skin products. Research suggest that Western models are more body-oriented. Regardless, by using cosmetic surgery, females can change various aspects of their body to make themselves more attractive by displaying a more desirable waist-hip ratio. This can lead to competition with other females who may be considered less attractive in comparison.
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Toy spaniels were given as gifts to European royalty. The red and white variety of toy spaniel was first seen in paintings by Titian, including the Venus of Urbino (1538), where a small dog is used as a symbol of female seductiveness. Further paintings featuring these toy spaniels were created by Palma Vecchio and Paolo Veronese during the 16th century. These dogs already had high domed heads with short noses, although the muzzles were more pointed than they are today.
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Her duets with Glen Campbell kept her in the limelight, and finally she had another hit single – the title song of this album – on her own. The LP is of good quality and should make the charts, and Miss Gentry should continue to prove that she is not a one-song artist." The review from Record World said, "Sexy is as sexy does and Bobbie Gentry certainly does. She's taken the sensual seductiveness of her own "Fancy" and made that the criterion for this new album.
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Amazon river dolphins, known by the natives as the boto, encantados or toninas, are very prevalent in the mythology of the native South Americans. They are often characterized in mythology with superior musical ability, seductiveness and love of sex that often results in illegitimate children, and attraction to parties. Despite the fact that the Encante are said to come from a utopia full of wealth and without pain or death, the encantados crave the pleasures and hardships of human societies. Transformation into human form is said to be rare, and usually occurs at night.
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241-245, Baton Rouge and London, 1982, He blamed his behavior on what he described as the seductiveness of the "extremely affectionate" young women. The scandal "derailed his political career" for a decade to come after Wade Hampton III publicly accused him in 1843, when Hammond was governor.Johanna Nicol Shields, Freedom in a Slave Society: Stories from the Antebellum South, Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 243 He was "ostracized by polite society" for some time, but in the late 1850s, he was nonetheless elected by the state legislature as US senator.
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One writer who particularly profited from the piece was the naval officer-cum-novelist Henri Rivière. In 1860, he published Pierrot, a novella in which a young mime, Charles Servieux, conceives of his Pierrot as a "fallen angel". After watching Deburau père perform one evening (or, rather, a Deburau refracted through "Shakspeare at the Funambules"), Servieux slowly begins to construct in his mind "a genius of evil, grandiose and melancholic, of an irresistible seductiveness, cynical one instant and clownish the next—in order to raise himself up still higher after having fallen."Rivière, p.
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For her 1989 Newport Harbor Museum of Art exhibition "America the Perfect Country" she exhibited posters displaying quirky statistics about Americans that challenge the many myths underlying American ideology. The center piece was a putt putt golf game inviting players to choose the best country, though all but one option are blocked. Los Angeles Times critic Cathy Curtis credited Rothenberg for "co-opting the seductiveness of the very media Establishment whose quick fixes and intellectual pabulum she is out to discount."Cathy Curtis. “Coloring-Book Critique of ‘America the Perfect Country’.” The Los Angeles Times.
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He and his brother Jan Verhas were known for their paintings of small family scenes depicting the joyous hubbub of girls and boys with their perfect transparent and pearly skins and controlled facial expressions. Other Belgian artists who were also followers of Alfred Stevens included Gustave Léonard de Jonghe and Charles Baugniet. Like Frans Verhas they evoked the vision of women adorned and painted in a manner that accentuates their coquettishness and seductiveness, like adulated idols.Camille Lemonnier, L'école belge de peinture 1830–1905, G. Van Oest & C, 1906, pp.
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Afro- Argentine Candombe drummers at a party of the Association Misibamba -Afro- Argentines Community of Buenos Aires. Lately, some artists have incorporated this genre to their compositions, and have also created groups and NGOs of Afro-descendants, as the Misibamba Association, Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires Community. However, it is important to note that the Uruguayan Candombe is the most practiced in Argentina, both due to immigration from Uruguay and to the seductiveness of the rhythm that captivates the Argentines. For this reason they learn the music, dance and characters and recreate something similar.
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Ordinarily, the hat would sit on the right or the left. Compared with the richness of the men’s clothing, women’s outfits can appear more modest, simply comprising a loincloth, skirt and head-scarf. The clothes correspond to their ages: young girls wear long loincloths or short skirts whereas married women wear two loincloths and a headscarf. Their relatively simple outfits are enhanced by the numerous items of jewellery acquired since the development of the caravan trade: earrings, silver bracelets, necklaces with carved porcelain or glass pendants and mirrors contribute to the women’s style and seductiveness.
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This albeit on masculine terms as denoted by being known, like the male protagonists, by nickname rather than forename. This makes the Hawksian woman especially different from other female archetypes of the time, in that she is considered "one of the gang" rather than an object of sexual desire. She can hold her own in a wit-driven argument, have the same profession as her male counterpart, and keep her cool under stress. The equality given to the Hawksian woman by the director, however, does not detract from her feminine qualities, such as seductiveness and softness.
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" She concluded, "Hers is a seductiveness of simple answers, of clear narratives, of motivations and actions traced solely to a biological origin—a place stripped of the complex ambiguities, the complex interactions of self, skin, group, and institutions that make up daily life." The critic Mary Rose Kasraie wrote, "Paglia gives no indication she has read any studies related to women, or recent studies about imagination, nature and culture" and had "terrible gaps in her coverage." Kasraie called the work "distractingly antischolarly" and "an unacademic wallow in Sadean sadomasochistic chthonian nature." Judy Simons criticized Paglia's "potentially sinister political agenda" and decried her "intellectual sleight of hand.
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The trio delights in strange shifts of tempo, harmonic clashes and pseudo-amateurish incidental noises, whilst retaining an easy seductiveness for untrained ears. All three members are accomplished musicians; Bartosch in particular who has developed a guitar style entirely his own, both faux-naïf and virtuosic. A fourth album has reportedly been in preparation since the late 1990s, with some sessions taking place under the tutelage of Tricatel owner/in-house producer Bertrand Burgalat. Per Sunding's work as an in-demand producer in his home country and Patrick Bartosch's taste for foreign trips have unfortunately prevented the band from doing more than teasing fans.
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Otto Katz, also known as André Simone amongst other aliases, was born in Jistebnice south of Prague, Bohemia, on May 27, 1895. He was hanged on December 3, 1952, after he was convicted in the Slánský trial. He was one of the most influential agents of the Soviet Union under Stalin in Western intellectual and artistic circles during the 1930s and 1940s. Known for his many pseudonyms, his seductiveness, his cynicism and versatility, from Paris to Hollywood from Mexico City to London, he participated in all the major Comintern disinformation campaigns in the 1930s, under the leadership of Willi Münzenberg who he eventually usurped after spying on him for the NKVD, if the rumours were to be believed.
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The subject of the painting is an episode in the epic poem Odyssey by Homer in which Ulysses is tormented by the voices of Sirens, although there are only two Sirens in Homer's poem and they stay in a meadow. The painting depicts Ulysses tied to the mast and forcibly attendant to the Sirens' seductions. Although the Sirens were depicted in ancient Greek art as scary, ugly creatures, Draper maintains the spirit but not the content of the story by transferring the Sirens' seductiveness from their song to a visible form, depicting the Sirens as beautiful mermaids who invade Ulysses' ship. The Sirens are nude and their tails disappear as they board the ship.
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One common criticism is that the Big Five does not explain all of human personality. Some psychologists have dissented from the model precisely because they feel it neglects other domains of personality, such as religiosity, manipulativeness/machiavellianism, honesty, sexiness/seductiveness, thriftiness, conservativeness, masculinity/femininity, snobbishness/egotism, sense of humour, and risk-taking/thrill-seeking. Dan P. McAdams has called the Big Five a "psychology of the stranger", because they refer to traits that are relatively easy to observe in a stranger; other aspects of personality that are more privately held or more context-dependent are excluded from the Big Five. In many studies, the five factors are not fully orthogonal to one another; that is, the five factors are not independent.
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College Without Walls mural by Daniel Desiga. > One of the larger paintings at the colegio depicts a seemingly endless > abundantly fertile field. As with so many of the murals, the sun is a > significant component; here, it plays just beyond the horizon, with the > overall warmth and seductiveness of the image suggesting the promise of an > imminent sunrise rather than a sunset. The scene is viewed through a golden > portal set on a patio in the foreground and may represent, as PSU’s (Tony) > Cabello suggests, the opportunity that is possible for the immigrant to el > norte. The painting abuts another portal – the main entrance to the colegio > building – providing an ironic contrast to the short-lived promise of > opportunity embodied in the colegio’s operation.
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As Mallory notes in #55, 14 people were killed by the Boys from 1987 to 1995 and "nearly three times that number" between 1995 and 2002, when Butcher had gained more influence. This coincides with Mallory's belief in Issues #54–55 that in spite of the seductiveness of the concept of special forces teams, the application of them can often go wrong as they try to justify their budgets and create their private conflicts. As a result, Mallory feels that the original concept for the team has gone awry, and would never have created the unit as it currently stands. The first iteration of the Boys was decommissioned after a disastrous confrontation with the Seven in 2001 that resulted in civilian casualties.
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Each chapter describes a type of turn, provides brief historical background, and identifies and explores several poems which exemplify that type of turn. By discussing how the turn creates movement, power, or surprise within the poem, this in-depth investigation encourages a more complete reading of poetry.Michael Theune also writes that by recognizing and understanding the turn, poets can revise their poems so they "begin to embody the power, mystery, seductiveness, and grace of great poetry without either becoming unclear and lapsing into disarray or else becoming overly clear by incorporating excessive explanation." Poets Maureen McLane, Ron Padgett, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, and Susan Steward participated on a panel, called "Twisting and Turning", at the Academy of American Poets Poets Forum on November 8, 2008.
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By the seventeenth century, the Fall of man as a male-female struggle emerges, and in the eighteenth century, the perception of Eve is influenced by John Miltons Paradise Lost where Adam's free will is emphasized along with Eve's beauty. Thereafter a secular view of Eve emerges "through her transformation into a femme fatale—a compound of beauty, seductiveness and independence set to destroy the man." Courageous and victorious women, such as Jael, Esther and the deuterocanonical Judith, were popular "moral" figures in the Middle Ages. The Renaissance, which preferred the sensuous female nude up through the eighteenth century, and the "femme fatale", such as Delilah, from the nineteenth century onward, all demonstrate how the Bible and art both shape and reflect views of women.
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The Gulf war fervor has turned Houston's performance into an unlikely, overnight pop hit." Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that Houston's rendition represented the image which the war was recast as sexy and exhilarating in the 1990s, becoming a counterpart to Jimi Hendrix's at Woodstock in 1969, with screaming siren notes and blasts of feedback that suggested the chaos and carnage of Vietnam bombing raids. He was critical of the media which used Houston's performance as a means of allowing the public to forget the violence of war, and the public's unquestioning acceptance of that, stating "'The Star-Spangled Banner' memorializes 'bombs bursting in air,' and the quiver in Ms. Houston's voice finds seductiveness in the rockets' red glare. But so far, despite the gleaming high-tech weapons paraded on the nightly news, the pop public hasn't joined her.
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In spite of his faults, however, he seems to be more involved in his job than an Edward Ferrars or a Henry Tilney. Henry Tilney, in fact, in Northanger Abbey, is absent from his parish half the time and takes holidays in Bath, so that in spite of his intellectual and moral qualities, he bears witness to the lack of commitment of certain clergymen towards their flock. As for Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, he does give evidence of a more definite vocation when he insists that he has "always preferred the Church" as his profession, even though his family consider a career in the army or the Royal Navy "more appropriate", or the law more worthy of a gentleman. Edmund Bertram alone, in Mansfield Park, shows an unshakeable vocation that all Mary Crawford's charm and seductiveness never succeed in weakening.
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The Searching Dead (2016) was the first novel in a trilogy of H P Lovecraft- influenced works which, like the novella The Last Revelation of Gla'aki, revisits themes from Campbell's early work. Described by the author as his "Brichester Mythos trilogy," the three-book series, including Born to the Dark (2017) and The Way of the Worm (2018), documents a character's engagement with a nefarious organisation over three time periods (1950s, 1980s, 2010s) and evokes a cosmic entity by the name of Daoloth. The trilogy draws together multiple themes that have preoccupied the author during his whole career: the cosmic, family, scapegoating, the vulnerability of children, and the seductiveness of totalising belief systems. A new short story collection, By the Light of my Skull, was also released in 2018, gathering together some of Campbell's more recent works, some of which—as has been the case in his later fiction—deal with older age.
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The belle juive archetype reveals antisemitism and misogyny on the part of the creator, for although the characters and the specific approaches to them varies with each appearance, the common thread shared by all is the Jewess’ basic function as an erotic symbol of the other, the strange and the forbidden, who is singular in her vulnerability and damning seductiveness. In his essay “Jew and Anti-Semite” (1946), Jean-Paul Sartre writes: : There is in the phrase ‘a beautiful Jewess’ a very special sexual signification, one quite different from that contained in the words ‘beautiful Rumanian’, ‘beautiful Greek’, or ‘beautiful American’, for example. This phrase carries an aura of rape and massacre. The ‘beautiful Jewess’ is she whom the Cossacks under the czar dragged by her hair through the streets of the burning village […] Frequently violated or beaten, she sometimes succeeds in escaping dishonor by means of death, but that is a form of justice; and those who keep their virtue are docile servants or humiliated women in love with indifferent Christians who marry Aryan women.
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Herod's Banquet (detail) by Fra Filippo Lippi (15th century) Salome by Titian, c 1515, (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome) Salome with the Head of the Baptist, 1761, Mariano Salvador Maella Salomé, by Henri Regnault (1870). Salome and the Apparition of the Baptist's Head, watercolor by Gustave Moreau (1876) The Peacock Skirt, illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's play, Salomé, 1896 Salome (1916), by Willem Arondeus, Metropolitan Museum The story of her dance before Herod with the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter led medieval Christian artists to depict her as the personification of the lascivious woman, a temptress who lures men away from salvation. Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, notably in regard to the dance mentioned in the New Testament, which is thought to have had an erotic element to it, and in some later transformations it has further been iconized as the Dance of the Seven Veils. Other elements of Christian tradition concentrate on her lighthearted and cold foolishness that, according to the gospels, led to John the Baptist's death.
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