What's the difference between alluring and temptress?

Alluring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allure
  • (a.) That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.

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.

Temptress


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who entices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gerwig played the vacillating temptress in Hannah Takes the Stairs , the long-distance lover in Nights and Weekends , a jittery scream queen in the Duplass brothers’ Baghead .
  • (2) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
  • (3) "It's a term which harks back to a biblical interpretation of Eve as a seductive temptress who is responsible for the behaviour of the men around her," explains 23-year-old Aisha Zakira, a columnist and the founder of Hollaback!
  • (4) He persuaded a pretty policewoman to pose as a sadistic temptress.
  • (5) Enter Parsifal, a "pure fool" and Christ-like redeemer figure, who alone can resist the lure of Klingsor's harpies, restore the spear to the knights, cure Amfortas and give Klingsor's arch-temptress Kundry the release from earthly life she so ardently desires.
  • (6) So it moved to programmes – including one in which alleged Beckham temptress Rebecca Loos hand-pleasured a pig – that surrendered what critical reputation it had.
  • (7) Cleopatra She was the 1st century BC pharaoh of Egypt and Rome's favourite exotic temptress.
  • (8) A lot of times they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.

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