blandishment

1 You have written castigating the President for his lawlessness, his lack of respect for democracy, his love of dictators—you write about his “greasy and extravagant blandishments” regarding that.

2 But when it comes to consumer objects, the Janus-face of innovation is all smiles and blandishment.

3 Friends resisted these optimistic blandishments, and I dug that.

4 MIT showed its gratitude for Koch’s blandishments by offering him positive reinforcement.

5 You know blandishment ceaselessly cannotbedonebyeveryone.

要知道时刻地讨好谁也做不到。

6 It sucked in Hough’s parents as it did many counterculture youths of the ’60s, attracted with blandishments of spiritual “revolution” and suspicion of the status quo; “Systemite” was a member’s most feared accusation.

7 In those days of unlimited confidence in a better tomorrow, perky ingénues still swooned into the arms of strapping heroes mouthing pompous blandishments, and happily ever after proceeded like clockwork.

8 From start to finish, this was an embarrassing carnival of self-pity, blandishment of grievance and evangelical catastrophizing about an imagined any-day-now Armageddon that targets minorities first.

9 “When someone dies, out come the usual blandishments … as if their death is there to be used,” Morrissey wrote Friday.

10 His band uses electronics to toss in the odd percussive loop or synthesizer swoop; his guitar playing is laconic but pointed; and his lyrics mingle existential fears with his blandishments.

11 That doesn’t suggest that Texas is better at offering companies blandishments, but that Texans are bigger dupes.

12 We don’t know how Senate Republicans will react to Trump’s blandishments today, but we do suspect that he, or at least his designees, are going to need Pelosi sooner rather than later.

13 The executive producer of “30 Rock,” Lorne Michaels, was more definitive about a future for the comedy, even if Mr. Baldwin turns down all blandishments to continue.

14 Still, the junior Bush’s blandishments proved unavailing; he lost badly in May’s Republican primary to incumbent Ken Paxton, a Trump sycophant who has spent the last seven years under federal indictment.

15 For months, he would resist Berkeley’s blandishments to leave Yale, despite the obvious benefits associated with writing his own ticket.

16 As usual, Mr. Macron, a centrist, offered blandishments to right and left.

17 The same mix of threats and blandishments helped bring Mr. Kim to the table in Singapore last June for the first of two summit meetings with Mr. Trump.

18 Among its many blandishments is an infinity pool that serves as a ceiling for the den.

19 The virtuous hermit firmly rejects these exceptionally attractive, albeit satanic blandishments.

20 People want to hear blandishments about engagement and infrastructure.

1 诱惑

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2 阿谀

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3 甜言蜜语

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4 谄媚

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5 奉承话

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6 奉承

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7 勾引

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8 劝诱

persuasion nudge coax cajole blarney

9 逢迎

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