No." The perception that design and architecture have fallen under fashion's seductive spell surfaced last month at the Milan furniture fair, but this seems to overstate fashion's power.

The wine fumes teased him, wove seductive spells around him and yet somehow, every time he brought the mug to his mouth, he lowered it, contents untasted.

That it did not may say less about Fraser's persuasiveness than about the seductive spell that contemporary art-making seems to cast.

A condensed format has become central to the writing of this indispensable British playwright, whose fiercely inventive imagination casts such a seductive spell that to break it with an intermission seems a violation.

Act 3: Dylan starts to kiss a willing Sara but pulls away just in time; frustrated, Sara turns to Trey and falls under his seductive spell while his dancing vampire harem holds Dylan back.

She felt enraptured by his seductive spell.

With the aid of Jane Greenwood's plush, gorgeously detailed costumes and Christopher Akerlind's invigorating lighting, the production casts a seductive visual spell.

When Jase fell for one of Dawn's "seductive" spell, they started dating in the The Queen Victoria, when Dawn chose Jase over his rival for Dawn's affections, Garry Hobbs (Ricky Groves).

Adrenaline backwash worked its seductive spell.

But the authors present it in solid blocks of concrete prose that invite sandblasting, rather than reading, while Mr. Earley's more artful narrative casts the seductive spell of a scary story told by the firelight at Granny's knee.