All 5 Uses of
seduce
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- He'd thought all that out long ago—it might as well have been centuries—and he knew he was not going down to the refrigerator, however seductive the images coming unbidden into his head.†
Chpt 1 *seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
- Given the same combination of gifts but other aspirations—an aspiration, for instance, to be an operatic singer—he might have been an unexceptional man: a restless farmer, a timid seducer of hired girls, a small-town choir director, a drunkard.†
Chpt 3seducer = someone who persuades someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- So, once, like Paxton, he had sucked for air in his bedroom, in the darkness, looking out on the brightly moonlit lawn where under the walnut trees Millie stood naked and beautiful and the boy he had hired three weeks ago, Raymond, stood six feet away from her, naked, erected, advancing slowly, like a dancer (a boy he too had known from the start to be gentle and wise in a boy's way, graceful, not eager to cause him pain: whom Hodge had for three weeks watched her seducing, gently, gently, or he'd watched the boy seducing her—for who could say where the blame belonged, since each of them was playing the game by rules not clearly understood, playing it toward an outcome neither of them antici†
Chpt 13seducing = persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- So, once, like Paxton, he had sucked for air in his bedroom, in the darkness, looking out on the brightly moonlit lawn where under the walnut trees Millie stood naked and beautiful and the boy he had hired three weeks ago, Raymond, stood six feet away from her, naked, erected, advancing slowly, like a dancer (a boy he too had known from the start to be gentle and wise in a boy's way, graceful, not eager to cause him pain: whom Hodge had for three weeks watched her seducing, gently, gently, or he'd watched the boy seducing her—for who could say where the blame belonged, since each of them was playing the game by rules not clearly understood, playing it toward an outcome neither of them antici†
Chpt 13
- It was not her fault that he'd tried to seduce her or even that he might have succeeded, and not her fault that he was ashamed of himself—whether because he'd gone that far or because he hadn't gone all the way, he couldn't tell—and not her fault that he was wounded now by the sight of her.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(seduce) to persuade someone to do something by tempting them with something pleasurable or desired -- often to make them want to have sex
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The passive form, seduced can also mean to have won over as in "She was seduced into buying the house by the beautiful yard."