(a.) Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
(a.) Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
(n.) That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
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.
Lovable
Definition:
(a.) Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(2) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(3) The cathartic moment, in which the king realises he's OK and lovable just as he is, was wonderful for the film-makers to discover, and has been wonderful for worldwide audiences ever since (and the king doesn't die… he merely "croaks").
(4) Behind all its variety the paper always reflected David's own personality and interests: it was as lovable or hateable as a single human being.
(5) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(6) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(7) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
(8) To feel lovable a child needs an enduring responsive relationship that conveys positive regard.
(9) Scott Pilgrim – and his peers in the likes of American Pie, Kick-Ass and Superbad – are presented as lovable losers, but compared to Marty they're creeps: self-absorbed, fixated on social hierarchy, only interested in niceness and decency if it helps them lure a girl into bed.
(10) The sinologist Ryan Mitchell notes that in a 1948 article, a veteran Chinese communist called Xi Zhongxun was quoted as saying “the most lovable qualities of us Communist party folks are devotion and sincerity”.
(11) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(12) Turturro's Woody – still playing Woody Allen because, really, Woody Allen is the only role he knows how to play – loses a lot of the snippiness and self-absorption of the Woody-built Woody, and it's a small joy to witness him being so lovable, witty and wise – and so unneurotic.
(13) Author Rich Cohen wrote in the New York Times: “For as long as anyone remembers, following the Cubs has meant embracing futility, choosing the losers over the winners, seeing the romance in failure.” The “lovable losers” have suffered a legendary curse ever since a tavern owner, barred from a World Series game in 1945 because he was trying to bring in a malodorous goat , proclaimed that they would never win the title again.
(14) They may pretend to be interested in football, politics and cars, but deep down they are still dazzled by shiny things and are the same infuriatingly lovable little bundles of fun they've always been – bless 'em – and the double whammy of fine wines and Belgian chocolates will always open a lot of doors.
(15) Kehazaei’s mother, Goldone , told Guardian Australia her son was “gentle and loving”, a “very sensitive, harmless lovable person”.
(16) "Maybe certain ages, for sure, but the Muppets are so real and so lovable and colourful.
(17) Joey is a Friends spin-off in which Le Blanc's lovably dumb character from the long-running comedy hit relocates to Los Angeles to further his acting career.
(18) SH Sky Atlantic, 13 September Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cilla Two years after writer Jeff Pope and actor Sheridan Smith collaborated on a drama about the Great Train Robbery – bringing her an acting trophy from Bafta for her portrayal of robber’s wife Charmaine Biggs and him a mini-series nomination – the same team turn to a more lovable aspect of 1960s culture in this Cilla Black life story.
(19) The amount of music available in 2010 is so vast that it helps for an authoritative voice to guide through its maze, and 6 Music has tonnes of them, such as the razor-sharp Lauren Laverne and the lovable Gideon Coe.
(20) It appears likely that Adam Driver, better known for playing the lovably awkward Adam in TV series Girls, has beaten Michael Fassbender and Hugo Weaving to the role of a Darth Vader-esque villain .