The unnoticed mutual seduction of the principals occurs inadvertently, through words - a ravishment by wit.
With mutual seduction helped along by excretions of crocodile perfume, things, as Mr. Attenborough delicately puts it, "get intimate."
"I thought now that maybe we could engage in some mutual seduction."
Differences in ideology have rarely been obstacles to the mutual seductions of the Kissinger Schmooze.
The book, which is largely the story of their love affair, is a duet about mutual seduction that's told in alternating "he said, she said" chapters.
"Some women love to be involved with men of power; it's a mutual seduction," said Judd Marmor, a psychoanalyst in Los Angeles.
They looked at me, holding back their smiles a bit, the way one does with strangers who interrupt a conversation or a mutual seduction.
Luca begins flirting with Lana, who is kneading dough for bread, and mutual seduction ensues.
It is a mutual seduction, however, as Deidre describes it: "Monsieur gave in to the most capricious of my desires, which became, therefore, increasingly capricious."
Sarah and Herman begin an elaborate dance of mutual seduction, with the usual results.