Bond is not only a master spy and seducer, he is also a style icon.

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But what is truly memorable about him in Sir Michael's account is his performance as a serial seducer.

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This was evidently part of his seducer's arsenal, along with his good looks.

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Yet, like a Jane Austen heroine sworn to resist a seducer's overtures, none of these gentlemen seem to be in LSE's books.

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The charismatic MC was more often a seducer and a comedian.

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With Dominic Cooper as Dakin, the cunning, dark-eyed seducer, and Samuel Barnett as the smooth-cheeked Posner, physically younger than the other boys and hopelessly in love with Dakin.

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So there we all were, kvelling over the great seducer Bill Clinton, falling in love with him all over again following his star turn at the Democratic National Convention earlier this month.

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He seems incapable of lending order to these recollections, constantly having to back up and start again, and that fumbling geekiness touches his account with an exasperating charm something of an antidote to the frictionless anecdotes of the classic seducer.

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