alluring
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While the stage pictures can be alluring, the effect is one of mood rather than storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
That Niall finds Ruben so alluring is natural to Gadd, who believes the notion of a valiant male figure has been bred into everyone via fables and fairy tales.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek helped Ottinger, 83, write the script, which is set in some of Vienna's most alluring locations.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
In Willie-Jay his vanity had found support, his sensibility shelter, and the four-month exile from this high-carat appreciation had made it more alluring than any dream of buried gold.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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