(n.) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
(n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
(n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
(n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
(2) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(3) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(4) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(5) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(6) Synthetic N-formylmethionyl peptides are chemotactic attractants for human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(7) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(8) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(9) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
(10) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(11) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(12) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(13) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(16) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(17) Cuadrilla's admission comes after more than a fortnight's protests at the Balcombe site, which have attracted international attention.
(18) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(19) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(20) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Endearment
Definition:
(n.) The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.
Example Sentences:
(1) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(2) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(3) He changes the subject in a way that is clumsily endearing yet explains why he sometimes had trouble communicating his heartfelt vision to the public.
(4) Now, at 57, he seems almost old fogeyish, endearingly so.
(5) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
(6) Their sophisticated political systems, extraordinary visual culture, advanced science and development of the only written language in the Americas have long endeared them to historians.
(7) It is fair to say that this was not regarded as endearing, particularly by those commentators who pointed out it wasn't just Osborne's pound to play with.
(8) Romney has hardly sought to endear himself with Europeans, holding the EU up as a failed model and implicitly accusing Obama of being a closet "European" – big government, social welfare, and "entitlement" culture.
(9) Thoreau's recognitions endeared him to the revolutionaries of the 1960s: he saw the violence behind the established order, the enslaving nature of private property, and - a trend even stronger now than 40 years ago - the media's substitution of "the news" for private reality.
(10) Yet unlike his fellow ex-Bullingdon men and Tory patricians, Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson, Osborne does not make a consistent effort to play down his privilege or make it endearing.
(11) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
(12) And hurt a number of people.” There is a pause, during which one feels Franzen leaning inexorably, and rather endearingly, in a direction that can do him no good.
(13) It’s a nice place and I am relaxed, but endearingly, Moby isn’t.
(14) And, though he admits it didn't endear him to his colleagues, he seems to have no regrets about his famous "seeing God" quote uttered at the press conference.
(15) On a night when Jerome Sinclair came off the bench to become Liverpool's youngest ever player at the age of 16 years and six days – he is so new to the scene that the club got his christian name wrong on the team-sheet and put him down as Jordan – Nuri Sahin endeared himself to the travelling supporters with two goals to help the holders vanquish West Brom and secure a place in the last 16, where Rodgers will come up against Swansea City, his former club.
(16) If in 2032 it hasn't endeared itself to the residents of Stratford and beyond it should be pulled down.
(17) It just so happened that our trip to Disney World coincided with the filming of The Muppets at Walt Disney World , a made-for-TV movie in which the Muppets meet the Disney characters, and we were suddenly standing about 4ft away from Jim Henson himself , bearded, sun hatted and in a lavishly patterned shirt, giving the frog hoiked up on his arm that reassuringly familiar voice as well as that endearing personality.
(18) His devotion to spiritual matters has not endeared him to the Chinese regime, which routinely denounces the Dalai Lama as a “splittist wolf in monk’s clothing”.
(19) An autocratic manner, reflected in a failure to consult with cabinet ministers and parliamentary colleagues, did little to endear Rudd to his caucus.
(20) A few sniffles and damp cheeks are endearing by comparison.