(v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
(n.) Allurement.
(n.) Gait; bearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The character was wild and dangerous, psychotic but alluring.
(2) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(3) With climate risks high and profit margins low, Australian farms do not hold irresistible allure for the Chinese.
(4) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
(5) It’s worth resisting the allure of unnecessary online purchases, one banana at a time.
(6) The few alluring aspect of these patients would signify the derogatory imago of a destroyed body, that does not be the mediator of the relationship to the other.
(7) Philip Hammond, the chancellor, said that the deal showed that Britain “has lost none of its allure to international investors”, but industry leaders warned it was a setback for the country.
(8) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
(9) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
(10) Rows of pleasing redbrick homes are cheap and potentially alluring for escapees from the unaffordable south.
(11) The very things that give small charities their allure can also be their greatest limitations Having been managed by a founder in three out of my four major jobs, and working closely with one in the fourth, I have lived out all the symptoms: ad-hoc practices with no systems and processes, unilateral decisions at the whim of the founder, a resistance to professionalising and losing the personal touch, and a way of working that revolves entirely around one person because the assumption is that this immortal personality will be around forever.
(12) The highest predictability and the highest bond strength were both found with the Allure bracket system.
(13) If he doesn’t want to lose his allure and go down as the man who oversaw euro exit, it is his only option.” The battle lines are being drawn – in and outside Greece.
(14) I think what we’re seeing in Australia is very much the focus on acquiring premium, highest quality, high-value brands that will enable a very significant mark-up or profit with the wealthiest element of Chinese society.” It is not that the Australian farms hold irresistible allure for the Chinese or come without hitches, as KPMG points out.
(15) We removed 122 ceramic brackets (A-Company Starfire, GAC Allure, and Unitek Transcend) from eight extracted teeth by grinding with high-speed diamond burs or low-speed green stones, both with and without air or water coolant.
(16) It's partial setting in the 50s deliberately echoes Frank Capra, and it would be daft to underestimate the reach of the allure of this peachy American dream.
(17) Otherwise we fail to understand the thinking of others, or to realize deep down that the brother or sister we wish to reach and redeem, with the power and closeness of love, counts more than their positions, distant as they may be from what we hold as true.” To emphasize the point he added: “Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor, it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, on the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.” The pope ended his speech with two recommendations.
(18) It seems likely that she has been influenced not only by Theron's choice of roles and but also by her determination not to allow her obvious allure to undermine her reputation.
(19) Kumamon is kawaii – the word is translated as “cute”, but the word has broad, multilayered meanings, encompassing a range of sweetly alluring images and behaviours.
(20) For all the alluring backstory, questions still remain.
Shoehorn
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Shoeing-horn
Example Sentences:
(1) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
(2) Just as Elba is clear that his ambition is not to be shoehorned into "black" roles in Hollywood, he is equally ambivalent about these niche black-film industries.
(3) We would love to continue to work with Gordon but it would be on a project-by-project basis.” Ramsay, said to be lining up a project for ITV , was among the C4 talent shoehorned into 2012’s reality flop Hotel GB, along with Gok Wan, Phil Spencer, Mary Portas (unlike Ramsay she remains on an exclusive C4 deal) and others.
(4) If winning Wimbledon isn't enough to shoehorn you in as SPOTY elect, I don't know what is.
(5) The recent friendly against Portugal showed that shoehorning him into the starting lineup means that our three most in form attacking players - Kane, Alli and Vardy have to be played out of position.Picking Jack Wilshere is also a huge gamble, with the Arsenal man having played so little football this year.
(6) Care cannot always be easily shoehorned into the gaps in a busy life of consuming and working.
(7) Hawley started the bill but with Smoot behind him it metastasized as lobby groups shoehorned their products into the bill, eventually proposing higher tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods.
(8) Meanwhile, because we no longer understand anything unless it is filtered through the prism of the Premier League, various newspapers have already dubbed May's poll " the Wags election " – a classification that underscores the almost infinite creativity of the British media, which have apparently now given up so emphatically that they are content to shoehorn absolutely all human experience into one of four or five pop-cultural tropes, the easier for the voters it apparently regards as imbeciles to understand.
(9) While driving, Dresden rebuffs Seagal's ideas with the usual ploy of shoehorning references to Orange and its phone services into the script.
(10) The shoehorning occurs here in a context where the legal professions' understanding of social media platforms and how they function is questioned by users of those platforms.
(11) The irony was that Moyes had shoehorned in another central midfielder, Tom Cleverley, at the expense of a right-winger to try to cope with City's superiority in this area.
(12) But the government is uncomfortably shoehorning more and more of the workforce into self-employment, part-time work and zero-hours contracts.
(13) It was 1972, the height of Mao’s cultural revolution, and an entire nation was being shoehorned into creating a new communist China .
(14) Mélenchon, a philosophy graduate and former teacher, will be hoping the level of support for his programme will enable him to shoehorn some policies into Hollande's manifesto.
(15) You can even record yourself using your smartphone camera and shoehorn your face into the classic “help me Obi Wan, you’re my only hope” – just forget that’s meant to be R2-D2.
(16) England had looked devoid of spark or spontaneity until the point, late on, when Chris Smalling spared them even fiercer analysis with the game’s decisive moment, and to play that drearily was quite some feat bearing in mind the number of attacking players Hodgson had shoehorned into his starting lineup.
(17) Less can be said for the bizarre shoehorning-in of a romance between Doc Scurlock and Murphy's fictional Chinese sex slave, Yen Sun.
(18) It is not appropriate to shoehorn each patient into a preset method of treatment.
(19) | Helen Dennis, Ruth Fuller, Kate Munro Read more The US has recognised that the SDGs provide a framework around which to shape national policy and add renewed emphasis to the challenges they face, the UK seems content to shoehorn the SDGs into existing priorities, disregarding the parts that do not fit – whether they are relevant or not.
(20) That possibly explains why Manchester City could not resist shoehorning a detour to Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern Munich in en route to China, allowing Guardiola to make his bow against the club he has just left.