blandishment

We bow the nibh, the blandishments of life course of any man, venomous of the disgrace.

Fortunately I welded the power of Emacs and was immune to their blandishments!

The latest deal from the phone company is designed to bamboozle us, and we may well want such blandishments regulated.

It’s harder to take advantage of the prepared mind after all, and so much profit and power is gained through shallow blandishments and lies.

/soothing toneI only read part of the article but as far as I got the author seemed to feel he would not be able to resist the blandishments of the advertiser/spies.

Humans right now generally stink at seeing through the most blatant manipulation and grotesque blandishments, but more can see through it than ever before.

To his scientific peers, he is a brilliant could-have-been, a young man who set the world on fire by reinvigorating an obscure scientific field called cellular automata—and in the process kicked off Chaos Theory—before selling out to the blandishments of corporate life.

From the article: "After all, most parents want their children to be far left in their early years — to share toys, to eschew the torture of siblings, to leave a clean environment behind them, to refrain from causing the extinction of the dog, to rise above coveting and hoarding, and to view the blandishments of corporate America through a lens of harsh skepticism.

From one of his self-biographies:> However, after a series of the inevitable, endemic startup setbacks that the Internet boom all too often left in its wake, Gabriel grew weary of the cold, cloistered, celibate tedium of engineering culture, and fell willing prey to the lure of the exotic social and intellectual stimulation and blandishments that only the Liberal Arts could offer.