(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.
Totty
Definition:
(a.) Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.
Example Sentences:
(1) And there's disbelief when he describes the moment ex-model Rachel Tatton-Brown (or "the hottest totty in town" as Evans describes her) pulled him in a club.
(2) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(3) He added: "[Francesco] Totti's sending-off against Korea was neither a penalty nor a dive.
(4) I don't even have to watch the replays... Totti dived," he said in an interview with Il Messaggero newspaper published yesterday.
(5) One was ridiculed for objecting to a "top totty" beer being sold in the Commons bar.
(6) In a Ravensthorpe newsagents, Ali Totti, 20, announced that he was going to vote Liberal Democrat.
(7) And I was very struck by the Top Totty stuff," – a recent controversy about the Commons' bar selling a bottled beer called Top Totty.
(8) We have previously demonstrated, however, that proteolytic cleavage of PKC-epsilon generates a constitutive kinase activity that is an efficient histone IIIS kinase [Schaap, Hsuan, Totty & Parker (1990) Eur.
(9) South Korea (3-4-3): Lee W J; Choi J C, Hong M B (Cha D R, 83 min), Kim T Y (Hwang S H, 63); Song C G, Kim N I (Lee C S, 68), Yoo S C, Lee Y P; Park J S, Ahn J H, Seol K H. Booked : Kim N I, Lee C S, Choi J C. Italy (4-3-1-2): Buffon; Panucci, Iuliano, Maldini, Coco; Zambrotta (Di Livio, 72), Tommasi, Zanetti; Totti; Vieri, Del Piero (Gattuso, 62).
(10) Although he did not give details on where his immediate future lay, the 32-year-old said he wanted to emulate the former Deportivo La Coruña veteran Juan Carlos Valerón and the Roma captain, Francesco Totti, by extending his stay with Atlético.
(11) I have seen many offside calls like the one given against Tommasi (and besides, that depends on the linesman’s flag, not Moreno) while the sending off of Totti seemed like a huge error, but not a premeditated one … Moreno seemed to get things right with the fouls in midfield and in the danger zones, as well as with his yellow cards prior to that second one [for Totti].” Manusia pointed out that both Totti and Vieri had been guilty at different points of raising their arms into the faces of South Korea players, and that Moreno could have sent either player off if he had truly intended to fix this match.
(12) Roma swept forward in waves, Totti drifting in from the left of new manager Rudi Garcia's 4-3-3 to dictate play from a spot just behind the attack.
(13) They all believe Totti was unfairly sent off and it looked too debatable to merit a caution.
(14) Up front, the likes of Alessandro Del Piero, Christian Vieri, Francesco Totti and Pippo Inzaghi were all in their prime.
(15) Against the likes of Francesco Totti, such familiarity could prove an invaluable asset.
(16) South Korea v Italy, 2-1 Italy's Francesco Totti receives a second yellow for diving against South Korea although the defender Song Chong-gug gets the ball and also crashes into the Italian, who fell to the ground.
(17) First came an unjust red card for Francesco Totti, who was received his second yellow after going down under a challenge from Song Chong-gug in the box.
(18) Examples included naked pictures of women accompanying a call for more photos of "top student totty", and girls pictured kissing on a flyer.
(19) 8, 4125-4132; Kozma, S. C., Ferrari, S., Bassand, P., Siegmann, M., Totty, N., and Thomas, G. (1990) Proc.
(20) I would love to be the Valerón or Totti of Atléti but today more than ever is not the time to talk about that,” he said.