Mr Schlink's seductress evokes the banality of evil, but it is the Reader's life-story that is really tragic.

ECONOMIST: The young writers�� holocaust

For his one-time ally Antony to have succumbed to something other than a fellow Roman, she had to be a disarming seductress.

WSJ: Still Under Cleopatra's Spell

She is both a beauty and a seductress.

ECONOMIST: Gustav Klimt