blandishments

The future is going to be a baklava of fast-cut CGI-grade hallucinatory blandishments and threats at scale.

These are meaningless blandishments, especially without any kind of negative attributes, things they do less or not as well.

What sort of person stays, or is retained by pop-up notifications and whatever other tedious blandishments their app/redesign provides?

And if, after forcing your trendy medical blandishments on him, if he still wanted to die, would you let him?

Ultimately (social media) you degrade human attention to reduce people's freedom to evade trivial commercial blandishments.

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

One-upper posters are annoying, but barbs disguised as blandishments like Ratatouille's bug me even more.

Under the guidance of the veteran Alexander Dana Noyes, its financial page was all but immune to the blandishments of the New Era.

Regardless of the purpose and scale of the organization, they all seemed to be emitting the same blandishments, always loosely correlated to context...

That's just physical reality, so we need to comport with it, not with the blandishments of the virtual business/tech world.

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.

They also watched as the US lavished Russia's corrupt government and its oligarchs with blandishments of how "democratic" Russia was becoming, and how "democracy" was going to make life better.

Their position has finally evolved from lies and blandishments, to this one thing, “the people have spoken, even if they’re saying we need to slit our own throats.” Whoever tries to stop this will be ending their political career, and while history may appreciate their choice in the long the run, it would be a miserable retirement.

To your passage I would add the following brief excerpts (not for the sensitive): "a system of monetary bribes" "hours of blandishments, threats and promises" "how sweet it was to bring that coffee to her, and then deny it until she had done her morning duty"