Alluring

What once was terrifying or alluring is now just the way of the world. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

Is it a deliberate recruitment drive by the church; are the robes particularly alluring; is it the funny hats? ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yeah, but as most any parent knows, simply telling kids NOT to do something alluring is going to be taken as an open dare. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (1831)

My sanguine imagination paints, in alluring colors, the charms of youth and freedom, regulated by virtue and innocence. ❋ Unknown (1797)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, Mistress Pinot Gris is described as alluring and assertive-a cheeky twist on the wine's qualities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There really isnt any such thing as zerophilia, although I admit I find the idea alluring and wish it were true. ❋ Fuscialadybug (2010)

The weight loss cost Maiysha her lucrative modeling career, where she was known as the alluring face of Lane Bryant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Positive emotions have a kind of alluring glitter dust on them. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Americans certainly are eager for fresh start, and it is typical of periods of economic panic that they may even be willing to reach for the kind of alluring but untested appeal that so marks Mr. Obama. ❋ Unknown (2008)

How deeply sin takes root in the heart of the sinner, and in all his being! how it gives the sinner its own way of looking at things, by means of which he sees them quite differently to what they are in reality, and shows him everything in a kind of alluring light! ❋ 1829-1909 (1897)

Describing Michelle as "alluring" and with "a strong personality," the future President says, ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wow, so AskMen. com is obviously written by dudes in pink ascots drinking chamomile tea because I don't think I've ever used the word "alluring" to describe a chick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After spending three minutes with the celebrities, the lothario gave his verdict, describing snooker star Jimmy White as humorous with a "beguiling charm", singer Sabrina Washington as "alluring" and former Hollyoaks actor Stuart Manning as having "every manner and charm but an old world style".