alluring

• “Is it a deliberate recruitment drive by the church; are the robes particularly alluring; is it the funny hats?”

  The Church of England votes to give homosexual clergy hookups full benefits « Anglican Samizdat

• “The prose of Flaubert, the imagery of Baudelaire, the harmonies of Wagner, Scruton points out, have all been accused of immorality, by those who believe that they paint wickedness in alluring colors.”

  Roger Scruton on Beauty

• “What once was terrifying or alluring is now just the way of the world.”

  "The courage of the coward— greater than all others."

• “While Digger men might have found this version of earth-mother femininity alluring from a distance, they would have recoiled from Gaskin's suggestion that "men are supposed to be really chivalrous and ... knightly and help [ 'ladies'] ... to do that.”

  Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83

• “Yeah, but as most any parent knows, simply telling kids NOT to do something alluring is going to be taken as an open dare.”

  Music cartel nails KU girl

• “Vices the juvenile reader never heard of, are introduced, dressed up in alluring characters, which excite their admiration, their love, their deepest pity; and then they are told that these heroes and heroines were very naughty, and that in the end they were certain to die despised and neglected.”

  The Mother's Book

• “My sanguine imagination paints, in alluring colors, the charms of youth and freedom, regulated by virtue and innocence.”

  The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact

• “What’s funny but yet intriguing and so alluring is that structures help but much more meaningful and important are those intangible things within a city that can be endearing.”

  Aaguasclientes, the city and the state

• “Provocative is when a girl dresses more openly than could be called alluring and couples this with a raunchy attitude plus she goes into situations where she is unprotected and there are not likely to be gentlemen about to help her.”

  [paradigm shift required] in the male-female divide

• “So, Mistress Pinot Gris is described as alluring and assertive-a cheeky twist on the wine's qualities.”

  Springwise

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