(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.
Statuesque
Definition:
(a.) Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet Greece are pretty ordinary, too, and when they look back at the 52nd-minute goal that handed their opponents the initiative they will kick themselves for some statuesque defending.
(2) An ancestor of Spanish flamenco, it uses lightning-fast spins punctuated by statuesque stillness, fluid arm movements and rhythmically controlled foot-stamping with percussive ankle bells.
(3) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(4) He appears everywhere with his statuesque wife, Yulia, in stark contrast to Putin, who hid his wife for years before finally announcing their divorce earlier this year.
(5) "She was very, very tall, statuesque and really, really wanted to get married.
(6) Top tip: Every November, just before Thanksgiving, Bosque del Apache hosts the Festival of the Cranes , a five-day event celebrating the return of the statuesque sandhill cranes.
(7) Despite the statuesque Hugo star's late arrival on the scene, Uggie remains the clear frontrunner.
(8) Shaqiri turned up in the middle instead of marauding down the right and beat a statuesque Rob Elliot from a good couple of yards outside the area with a crisp shot the goalkeeper evidently did not see coming.
(9) With Jack Birkett, the bald, blind, statuesque Rambert dancer who became a primary collaborator as The Incredible Orlando, Kemp pursued work in the theatres and dance groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
(10) Hansberry's striking, statuesque features appeared in Vogue, while Show magazine dispatched a list of questions about Shakespeare and published her response alongside those of TS Eliot, Harry S Truman and Igor Stravinsky.
(11) Although she inherited her statuesque build from her father, neither of her parents were athletic.
(12) West Brom had been carved open and Van Persie had the goal at his mercy, yet to the relief of the statuesque Boaz Myhill the drilled low shot passed harmlessly a few inches wide of an upright.
(13) WICKET: New Zealand 96-7 Harris lbw b Zaheer 17 Zaheer pitches one outside the off stump that bites back and raps a statuesque Harris on the pads low, middle and off.