(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.
Winsome
Definition:
(a.) Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
(a.) Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
(2) Previous articles in the series A is for Alberich B is for Bayreuth C is for Cosima D is for Death E is for winsome heroines F is for Die Feen G is for Gesamtkunstwerk H is for Hitler
(3) All of it – from a tangerine drop-waist silk dress, to a vintage Chloe-esque pleated design – was fresh and young, with a winsome early-60s nod that has been present in VVB since its inception.
(4) Previous articles in the series A is for Alberich B is for Bayreuth C is for Cosima D is for Death E is for winsome heroines F is for Die Feen G is for Gesamtkunstwerk H is for Hitler I is for Isolde J is for Jews K is for Kundry L is for Lohengrin M is for Meistersinger N is for Nietzsche O is for Ortrud
(5) Not that Nick was ever exactly one to be motivated by a sense of “drive” or ego – there is the story of the time Françoise Hardy, who, as a winsome breathy chanteuse must have obviously been drawn to Drake’s similar, superiority-wrought style, phoned Island Records, more or less ordering Drake over to France to write songs for her.
(6) For every cockle-warming group hug, there's Tambor, spewing bile and condescension; for every small child bursting winsomely into song, there he is again, a snout-nosed vision of pompous self-delusion.
(7) Partly produced by MacColl's guitarist father, Neill (who has made his own folk albums with Kathryn Williams), it is winsome, fragile and audacious, Steadman's trembling voice and the unadorned plucked strings a far cry from the frenzied rock of last year's debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose .
(8) From the pile of canvases stacked up on the trestle table, and hung from its metal framework, the buyer had selected Kids on Guns – two sweet little children standing on a hillock of guns and bombs – and Pooh Bear, a version of AA Milne's winsome creation sitting weeping under a tree, honey pot (labelled with a dollar sign) discarded and his foot stuck in a bear trap.
(9) Previous articles in the series A is for Alberich B is for Bayreuth C is for Cosima D is for Death E is for winsome heroines F is for Die Feen G is for Gesamtkunstwerk H is for Hitler I is for Isolde J is for Jews K is for Kundry L is for Lohengrin M is for Meistersinger
(10) Photograph: Joan Marcus The understated adaptation of Robert James Waller’s overblown love story The Bridges of Madison County featured numerous sex scenes between Kelli O’Hara’s winsome farm wife and Steven Pasquale’s hunky photographer.
(11) Bowie then returned to the multimedia trail with an appearance in Julien Temple’s shambolic film Absolute Beginners (1986), from which he salvaged some personal kudos by supplying the winsome title song.
(12) It's an intense listen, but then if you're looking for delicate subtlety from the man who once penned a track called Inside Pikachu's Cunt then you're probably the kind of listener disappointed at the lack of winsome ballads on the new Cerebral Ballzy record.
(13) Winsome comment about husband's failings "He is not very good at picking up his clothes.
(14) Winsome comment about husband's failings "He's messy, he's noisy, he gets up at a terrible hour."
(15) Photograph: Warner Bros LEGO's first movie snaps into place by building on the reputations of newly-minted cinema icons Batman and Superman, both of whom make an appearance in the winsome trailer .
(16) Or allergic to winsome ditties sung-spoken to primitive ukulele accompaniment.
(17) "While many clubs maintain the rather lame tradition of reserving their No12 for their fans, I noticed that Oldham choose the No40 instead," notes Robert Winsome.
(18) After leaving the Foreign Office in search of new adventures, Stewart, who looks (deceptively) winsome and vulnerable with his tousled hair and wiry build, walked 6,000 miles across Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, mostly alone (his winter walk across Afghanistan was the subject of his first book).
(19) Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silver-screen idol who can't adjust to the new "talkies", while a former ingénue Peppy Miller (played by the winsome Bérénice Bejo) becomes a huge star.
(20) Winsome comment about husband's failings "If you see him dancing flamenco, you realise that it's not something he'd normally attempt ... " What she'd sing at a karaoke and Lambrini night The Macarena (it's Spanish, innit?)