He hinted that he might be more seducible if he knew Desi truly loved him.

He had Kravchenkos testimony that Elena was seducible, and her own willingness to make herself available for this night on the town backed him up.

Out of sheer weariness, Renko proves seducible - though he is never, ultimately, seduced - by his own selfish desires.

Mr. Jensen sees diet-book consumers as perpetually seducible readers - "people who like to be romanced."

Once, a man told Belinda that she was easily seducible"--just before he seduced her, proving his point."

She wore a plain blue coverall, and from her face and graying hair Blade judged that she was about forty, neither seductive nor seducible.

He could not understand men who shrank from blood, who liked poetry or roses, who did not casually endeavor to seduce every possibly seducible girl.

Even more easily seducible then, I soon found myself rocking gently on a luxurious yacht, drinking with Commissioner Pete Rozelle and several owners.

Of these four or five connoisseurs of Gideon Planish, Peony would be the only seducible girl, and he no more intended to lose her than to lose his life.

The last line quoted above is directed not at Mr. Silver but at Madonna, who - in due time - puts in an appearance as a part-time, passionately but foggily literate, possibly seducible secretary.

It occurred to me that if Lieutenant Elby was a pawn in the game between father and daughter, then Captain Bollinger was certainly not; she was not seducible by Ann, and she was also homely enough for Mrs. Campbells requirements.

This is generally intolerable in popular-culture depictions of dictators: we cannot allow ourselves to be so compromised as to even consider the possibility that the dictator has captivating allure for fear that we might imagine that we too might be seducible by the intolerable.

He's a rubber-plantation worker in Indochina who has a fling with a stranded steamship passenger of easy virtue (Harlow, barely 21 at the time and adorably comic) but quickly throws her over for a "real lady" (Mary Astor), who turns out to be equally seducible.

Ditto, she says, for cougar stereotypes like Mrs. Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, who was just "a neurotic alcoholic cheating on her husband;" and for the depiction of cubs like The Graduate's Benjamin Braddock as easily seducible prey for lustful suburban housewives.

Following "The Flamingo Kid" in 1984, in which he played a ripe, seducible cabana boy from working-class Brooklyn, he floundered in a half-dozen or so turkeys, with the critics sniping at him for being a low-rent James Dean or Montgomery Clift with pouty mannerisms.

Mr. Hayworth hopes that by standing at the intersection of opportunity and timing, he can lure enough Tea Party sympathizers fresh off their convention in Nashville, seducible independent voters (Arizona has an open primary) and conservative Republican grass-roots activists, who have long been disenchanted with Mr. McCain.