temptress

How To Use temptress In A Sentence

• Tribal traditions and a male-dominated reading of Islam have produced a deeply rooted ideology of women as temptresses, who must be kept under control to avoid "fitna" or social strife, thereby safeguarding the "peace of Islam. Ida Lichter, M.D.: Afghan Women's Movements Deserve More From the West
• The harpy, whose name was derived from the Greek word arpazo, ‘to seize’, was a monstrous female demon of insatiable hunger, known as temptress, seductress and tormenter of victims.
• SAMSON AND DELILAH 1949 Lamarr ' s last really great film, made in glorious Technicolor, gave her the role she was born to play: Delilah, the Bible temptress who is the undoing of Samson. Her Face Was Her Misfortune
• There is no sultry Russian temptress lurking in the wings. Times, Sunday Times
• The marital tragi-comedy stars the director's actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner as a free-spirited temptress wed to an invalid Peter Coyote, engaged in seductive cruise-ship shenanigans with Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Start September With Superior Cinema
• The saying goes, good: " Temptress Moon as good friends, poetry and literature a good friend.
• They are perceived as sexual temptresses.
• The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
• The female is mysterious, captivating, at times a temptress.
• More than 125,000 charitable souls have now visited the site and in honour of this tally the photo gallery features even more snaps of the sultry temptress in a range of provocative poses and towelling robes.