0 pleasant words or actions used in order to persuade someone to do something:
She was impervious to his blandishments.
She pleads with all her blandishments for forgiveness, while he, burrowing into his soul, can hardly find a reason to embrace her again.
There was obviously no prospect of securing carriers, so further blandishments were resorted to in order to induce the existing ones to carry on.
Others may understand but be easily led, lacking the will to resist blandishments or coercion.
Others may have understanding but be easily led, lacking strong enough motivation and volition to resist the blandishments of others.
By nature such creatures were predisposed (possibly, even, predetermined) to incline towards evil, and this inclination made them peculiarly susceptible to the blandishments of tyrants.
Having spent the whole opera resisting, so to speak, the blandishments of the triple-time aria, in the final scene she gives herself to them body and soul.
These factors range from the convenience of one's polling location to the blandishments of ward captains to the ways in which voting is looked upon by one's peers.
But his blandishments fall on very stony ground here.
