How To Use Attraction In A Sentence

This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
Nearby attractions: Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation, Hilo.
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind

It is likely to have benefited more from erecting the jawbone outside the island kirk and turning it into a tourist attraction, than the museum, which will simply be adding it to its existing collection.
This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
I spotted a cleaner sporting a plastic bib with the words Tourist Attractions emblazoned across it.
Stars are initially formed from gas, mostly hydrogen, and contract under their own gravitational attraction.
The attraction of the time theme inspired its creators to look to Greenwich and its meridian line.
It's a mistake to think of Florida only in terms of its tourist attractions.
The main attraction of the place is the nightlife.
It has stunning views down the River Necker and was on the doorstep of easily accessible attractions.
It is understood they are to be the main attraction of a dolphinarium currently being built. The Sun
The largest siderostat in the world is the Paris 50-inch refractor, which formed the chief attraction of the Palais d'Optique at the Exhibition of 1900. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
Seafood is the main attraction, and the freshness and quality is excellent - the three of us sampled mackerel, tuna and swordfish, none of which could be faulted.
He would also be a marvelous attraction for a graduate school of almost any-thing.
Sites promoted as tourist attractions are usually signposted from main roads; look out for brown-coloured ‘tourist signs’.
Now the number of yawls has increased to twenty-five and the yawl racing competition has become a major tourist attraction on Achill island.
The general odor of the man she loves, one woman states, is highly, sometimes even overwhelmingly, attractive to her; but the specific odor of the male sexual organs which she describes as fishy has no attraction. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
There was obviously a great physical attraction between them.
Perhaps his most interesting is Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), a psychopath who commits various gruesome murders and owns a freak show themed tourist attraction. Five Horrifying Clowns | myFiveBest
There's even more proof in the new duets album: While the pairings add to the jollity Lady Gaga is amazingly likable, and not at all trampy, on "The Lady Is a Tramp", the real attraction is Mr. Bennett himself. Ready for His Autumn Waltz
For some cynics, it is merely the foreign junkets and chance to travel on per diem expenses that draws the attraction of our globalised political classes.
Another aspect of these aims was the powerful attraction of establishing international companies for their own sake.
What's the attraction of going on the stage?
In a similar vein, while the weather was good news for some attractions - both paid-for and free - others were badly hit as both visitors and Scots headed outdoors.
Some of the most rapidly growing towns in the mid-nineteenth century were the very antithesis of industrial centres: these were the seaside resorts, fashionable spas, and tourist attractions, such as Rome.
The attractions of molecules for each other are called intermolecular interactions to distinguish them from covalent and ionic bonding, forms of intramolecular interactions.
This may by some readers be attributed to the absence of that dashing _caricatura_ style and constant aiming at antitheses, which, if it relieve the vapidness of the story, does not add to its natural attractions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832
The hotel's location is perfect, not only is it a short walk from some of London's major tourist attractions, such as Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Kensington Palace, and the Londonist
Within the village itself, there are other attractions for those keen on immersing themselves in local history.
IR: You know, I used to buy them as a kind of touristic attraction, when my friends from Italy would visit. The Clog
Live music and a pig roast are other attractions that draw large crowds to The Carew.
The freckles over her face were an added attraction rather than otherwise.
Someone who seems stand-offish could be hiding their attraction. The Sun
Promoting the town as a tourist attraction is to be one of the council's main objectives over the next 12 months.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
All the energies of life flow through those who are open to its many forms—undercurrents of earth and overcurrents of sky, bioelectric fields of plants and animals, magnetically charged attractions of intimacy and relationship, and even the danced opposites of the sacred and profane. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
During his visit to Japan, Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping proposed to utilize Japanese capital and technologies, which ushered in China's reform and opening up and attraction of foreign capital.
I can't see the attraction of sitting on a beach all day.
But it gave an added attraction to the plenary session anyway.
It is hoped the overhaul will make the museum a showpiece regional attraction which will bring thousands more visitors to the area.
But physical attraction could jump that gap like an electric spark and did so effortlessly.
For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks.
It is great value with exclusive queue-jumping privileges at some attractions.
But physical attraction could jump that gap like an electric spark and did so effortlessly.
Stars are initially formed from gas, mostly hydrogen, and contract under their own gravitational attraction.
Furthermore, a priori assumptions in phylogenetic analyses, such as long-branch attraction can bias phylogenetic tree analysis. A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria
Pompeii is one of Italy's prime tourist attractions.
Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
The city cleverly combines cultural attractions such as museums, galleries, theatres and opera houses - with a very strong fun-loving steak.
They felt a strong mutual attraction.
Cllr Clarke welcomed the development and said a walkway across the river at the weirs would be a great attraction.
Costume jewellery is another omnipresent tourist attraction, but be aware that the amber shops are often tacky and low quality, and amber isn't even local.
It is semi-circular in form and bestudded with islands; while on its western shore rise mountains of no ordinary attractions, among them Owl's Canadian Wild Flowers
The centrepiece of attraction is that the calendar tells a heart warming story with each passing month of the current year.
After Hild had set off, plainly loath to leave Tera—though she seemed oblivious to his attraction—the remaining five had eaten as much unripened fruit as they could tolerate, then taken places around the fire to pass out. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
Its main attraction is that it is usually nice and quite until about 7pm. The One With The Afternoon In London
That our lovely, blue planet is not a popular tourist attraction for extraterrestrials.
I was cheating Jinna out of something, not by denying her a false avowal of love, but by accommodating our attraction. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
House because the subscription price will certainly be cheaper so that they will have the attraction.
‘The Scots see the smoky taste of Scotch as an attraction but I think it masks the flavour of the whiskey,’ she said
The attraction of these materials lies in their rich detail about the lives of men and women embroiled in marital litigation.
The following morning there will be an opportunity to tour some of the local cultural attractions in informal groups.
Apart from this, botanists are generally agreed that the concrescence of parts of the flower-whorls -- in the gynaeceum as the seed-covering, and in the corolla as the seat of attraction, more than in the androecium and the calyx -- is an indication of advance, as is also the concrescence that gives the condition of epigyny. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
She had an indescribably magnetic attraction to her father's world.
In Dawson, White Fang becomes an attraction, and people come to see the wild beast in the cage.
It was obvious to both of us that not only was there the most vibrant sexual attraction between us - more seriously - we were falling deeply in love.
Individual sheets are raveled out in advance by blowing air against the side of a stack of sheets to remove attractions between sheets.
Still, there were plenty of other attractions, like the Reiki energy-healing workshop overseen by Carol Roujansky.
This morning he had felt her attraction and just now, as they danced, he had been convinced it was mutual.
a poster advertised the coming attractions
For every schoolboy, the reredorter will be the star attraction, but for me it's the priory's imposing west front. Times, Sunday Times
Gravitational attraction is an equivalent expression of the force close to each other between and on the line of the two objects, coming from exchange of momentum between objects and micro-particles.
Atlantic City's longest lasting attraction, the annual Miss America pageant, has answered America's longing for royalty since 1921, long before the casinos tantalized visitors with the prospect of becoming rich overnight.
A freelance career has the attraction of flexibility.
And it leads me to think that the notion of queer used here is strongly associated with neophilia and neophobia, ie degree of attraction to novelty.
Attraction of the land snail Anguispira alternata to fresh faeces of white-tailed deer: implications in the transmission of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis. Snails and deer poop
If m is sufficiently small we can ignore the mutual attraction of the two masses.
And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they'd never dare flirt with a woman again?
Apart from these obvious attractions, I have always found it difficult to understand the appeal of this leisurely, some might say, soporific sport.
In a bid to create a rival attraction to the London Eye and the Manchester Wheel, Ulverston Town Council decides to convert the monument into a helter-skelter.
Let's have a bimble along and examine the attractions.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake
The Los Angeles River was the greatest attraction.
In many of the bootstrap analyses, node A is disrupted because the long plecopteran branch joins with the long collembolan branch, and this attraction is reduced under the more complex models.
Thatched-roof cottages characterize the medieval village of Dunster, among the largest of Exmoor's villages and hamlets and one of the park's most popular attractions.
The attraction of options and futures, our specialty item, was that they offered both liquidity and fantastic leverage.
And then, wherefore is there neither swelling nor repletion of the veins, nor any sign or symptom of attraction or afflux, above the ligature? On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
An added attraction is models and dissected specimens of human body - liver, spleen, kidney, foetus and hip joints - all preserved in formaldehyde solution.
The teleferic is most often the predatory of the funicular, but without its charm and attraction.
Blackpool is the top tourist attraction in England.
Ellie was attractive though not my type but I have to admit there was some sort of attraction.
It must have been 1967 when I first had the bejesus scared out of me by this tale - and then learned the strange attraction of re-exposing oneself to this waking nightmare.
It is found that there is the shadow in the tourism resources, zone bit of traveler, zone bit of traffic, the image of the spots and the attraction to the talents of Yongzhou.
The Government was today trying to fend off a torrent of criticism following the latest bail-out for the cash-strapped showpiece attraction.
Treason had once been a simple matter, solved quickly on the block, where now fatted ravens strutted as a tourist attraction. THE ENDLESS GAME
This is great news - not just for fast-tiring toddlers, but also for hyperadrenalised teens keen to make one last dash round the big attractions before shut-up time.
The big attraction is lower or, at least, less rapidly-escalating electricity bills.
A satellite circles around a planet and is held in orbit by the force of attraction.
It is the irrationality, the unacceptability, the incredibility of our faith that is its chief attraction and our chief asset, and to embrace that is to turn our critics on their heads, because they cannot accept those terms.
I had always thought he was a good-looking boy, but never to the point of physical attraction.
It is also the island's main tourist attraction.
Deprived at one blow of most of his precedents, "shorn" -- as the Breach of Promise Reports puts it -- "of its usual attractions," FIBBINS's speech becomes an impotent affair. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891
It's not the coal that is the attraction, but the methane gas trapped in the unmined seams. Times, Sunday Times
Because a prime attraction of local currency bonds are the expected extra returns an investor can earn rising emerging-market currencies, most local bond investors left their positions unhedged against currency fluctuations. Emerging Markets Tumble World-Wide
But it's essential to leave enough room for the star attraction here: the saltily marinated churrasco, especially the fantastic sirloin (fatty or lean, rare to medium), very flavorful roast pork, and chicken kebabs kept succulent with wraparound bacon. Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
It is also another way to gain attraction from the public. Harajuku – Japanese Fashion
With the arrival of pleasure boaters, I cannot see what the attraction will be for people who aren't boating enthusiasts.
We are in a cheap restaurant in a middle-of-nowhere town in Nevada that just happens to have one, unassailable attraction.
A special attraction are the Navalgund dhurries, which bear a clear influence of the Kasuti tradition of the north Karnataka region.
On New Year's Eve the display of fireworks offers many attractions.
We will arrange trips to UCLA, USC, Disneyland, Universal Studio, Costa Mesa beach and other attractions.
Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value .
Three others like to see some natural attractions of beauty and peacefulness.
Once you decide to step in this city, scores of attractions await your encounter.
Other attractions at the circus include clowns, acrobats, wire-walkers, trapeze artists, an equestrian display and jugglers.
Puzzle Planet is the latest attraction at the centre where you can pit your wits against a series of mazes, brainteasers and puzzles to see if you've got the brains to be an astronomer.
He does not often pay for his own petrol; he does not understand what the commonality might actually want from a visitor attraction.
The monkey was the star attraction at the show.
If lack of desire for activities like that are the definition of "asexuality" used to come up with the 19% figure, well, that makes sense, but it actually has very little to do with sexual attraction per se, and everything to do with the circumstances surrounding it. "It's hard to imagine what would push me to having sex. I'm not afraid of sex, it's just not something I want to do."
But now suppose that your mind is in its nature discursive, erratic, subject to electric attractions and repulsions, volage; it may be impossible for you to compel your attention except by taking away all external disturbances. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
I was cheating Jinna out of something, not by denying her a false avowal of love, but by accommodating our attraction. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value .
And, more than sixty years on from the siege, the compelling attraction of music in this place is evidently still felt by ordinary citizens.
This attraction is similar to that of two opposite poles of a magnet.
The one-acre attraction, which will be for youngsters aged nine and under, will also have roundabouts, dodgems, go-karts and a small train running round the site.
There are many tourist attractions here,lots of people come here for holidays.
Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
What is it, this force of attraction, that leaps across every barrier humans have ever been able to construct?
One of the main attractions for users to have mobile phones is that they offer the ability to roam and to make telephone calls from almost anywhere.
Visitors dressed in straw boaters were entertained by various attractions, not least the upbeat swing of the Mainline Jazz band, kitted out in waistcoats and open-necked shirts.
The Alexander Doll Co. got the exclusive rights to Canada's identical Dionne quintuplets, who lived at Quintland, a tourist attraction, until the age of 9. Evolution of the American Doll
They used to be just another attraction at a children's zoo - but then they learned to trampoline.
One columnist suggested that the government capitalize on the vendors' street stalls by turning them into tourist attractions.
Many Irish companies are downsizing, and the attraction and retention of the best and most efficient workers available has become a key issue for many employers.
This is a secluded vale, called Killean, which, besides its natural attractions -- and these are many -- is distinguished as one of the few places where the old practice of resorting to the 'shieling' for summer grazing of cattle is still observed. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
They approach the primeval mystery of human attraction with a systematic and almost Promethean hand.
Breeders of dogs whose tails are docked for cosmetic purposes say a ban would detract from the visual attraction of certain types.
No deal is expected until 2012 at the earliest so the theme will be the counterattraction to independence, and will occupy what had been up to now a clear field for the SNP. Slugger O'Toole
Away from flash boats and cars, the other magnetic attraction of Monte Carlo is gambling.
The Tower of London tops the list of London's most popular tourist attractions.
Aiola Island, located right in the center of the Mur River in Graz, Austria, was built in 2003, and immediately developed itself as a popular attraction.
There will be attractions for young and old, raffles galore, which will include a Super Valu hamper.
Apart from regular water sports cliff diving is an added exclusive special attraction of the place.
Spring is sprung, hormones are jumping, hearts are thumping and the seasonal cycle of attraction's in full swing once more.
The sheer weight of visitors is destroying this tourist attraction.
Feeding the animals proved a popular attraction for visitors to the farm.
The humble abode which Nelson Mandela occupied when he first came to Joburg during the early 1940s is to be transformed into a heritage attraction site.
It's an attraction in itself to rise early in the morning to watch the enormous luxury liners taxiing into a berth at the wharf near the bauxite terminal.
The idea of working for state-owned enterprises has little attraction to young people nowadays.
Visitors looking for a less ‘interactive’ attraction can pay a visit to Langkawi Crystal, Malaysia's only glass-blowing factory, which is several kilometres north of the capital Kuah.
To add to the attraction, they are studded with chocolate gems.
It has now become a major attraction for wild elephants, bison, hyena and boars.
Books were published in parts, as periodicals, with the added attraction of illustrations, for later binding.
Bird feathers used in mate attraction may form huge crests, ruffs, or tails: the male peacock tail is a case in point.
The supplier of financial information has two main attractions for private investors.
Gravity doesn't act that fast, on the other hand, electric force, the coulomb attraction, is 39 orders of magnitude stronger than gravity and explains why "changes over just a few months" can be observed & measured. New Movie Reveals Birth of Super-Suns | Universe Today
Contemporary storytellers have developed an attraction to anti-heroes - protagonists who accomplish important things without the ennobling qualities of traditional heroes.
The Belleek Forest Park with its attractive riverside walks is well on the way to being a major addition to Ballina's tourist attractions as a natural amenity.
But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess - and by now she was totally out of the Palace's control.
His home town has been turned into a tourist attraction, with a museum to celebrate his career.
But most enthralling was her attraction to two people for whom she wrote her most ardent poems.
The neighborhood's main attraction, however, is Glen Canyon Park, a 70-acre swath of city-owned wilderness nestled in a sweeping ravine and just out of sight of several major roads.
She developed her early attraction to painting after discovering the Renaissance masters during a childhood trip to Italy.
Southsea was the main attraction but Latimer Road contributed to drawing away the London skaters.
Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced.
The attraction of such cities as New York is the promise of boundlessness, of the sky being the only limit to human ambition.
Though my aunt forever encouraged us to coquet with one another, I don't believe there was any sort of attraction between us.
Charging non-residents would also damage tourism in the city because many visitors expect attractions like the gallery to be free, she said.
She felt an immediate attraction to him.
This is the attraction of democracy, and this is the reason why democracy became a universal value and why democratic rights are popularly supported and yearned for!
If the neutral body be lighter than the medium, it exhibits the magnetic induction of iron with respect to polarity, but is nevertheless repelled; while if it be heavier than the medium, its direction is similar to that of diamagnetic bodies such as bismuth, but on the other hand exhibits the phenomena of attraction. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
Later that month as public concern about the costs of the dome grew Sanchia Berg spoke to leading figures in the visitor attraction industry.
This eagerly anticipated annual event once again drew the crowds and this time there was the added attraction of an extra race on the town centre circuit.
In a properly organised rural neighbourhood could be developed that higher kind of attraction which is suggested by the very word _neighbourhood_. The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer
I replied I couldn't see the attraction of having someone else's slobber all over my face.
It was star attraction at an historic vehicle rally at Dudley, West Midlands, yesterday.
They should be in their wellies, walking footpaths, visiting rural attractions and declaring the countryside open for business.
In fact the major perturbation, producing about 99.99 percent of the variation in the lunar orbit, is due to the large attraction of the Sun.
Yes; but the term affinity is objectionable in this case, because, as that word is used to express a chemical attraction (which can be destroyed only by decomposition), it cannot be applicable to the slight and transient union that takes place between free caloric and the bodies through which it passes; an union which is so weak, that it constantly yields to the tendency which caloric has to an equilibrium. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
The other wild attractions in the park include nilgai, chausingha, chital, chinkara, wild boar, foxes and jackals.
A fleet of vintage vehicles form the centre of attraction.
The star attraction, however, is the amusement park, which the organisers claim to be the biggest mobile amusement park in the country.
Its widespread attraction contrasts sharply with those pet projects of the London-based chattering classes which have previously won Lottery millions.
For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks.
Hence the relative attraction of a centrally-planned, lowest common denominator mediocracy with just enough capitalism to be plundered and wasted on their ever failing social engineering schemes and flawed political theories.
The entrance to the house and gardens at this amazing attraction is a long winding road past mature stands of conifers and deciduous trees underplanted with flowering shrubs, ferns and wildflowers. Your Happy Place « Fairegarden
She said these areas if developed and easily accessible would surpass in its attraction any known tourist spot in the state.
There was some talk of keeping it in the harbor and converting it for use as offices or as a tourist attraction, but that would require long-term moorage, Wallace explained. The Seattle Times
The attraction of this film is watching it all go wrong and seeing the organ grinder savaged by his own monkey.
Even Newtonian physics was unable to give a complete explanation of its orbit: the direction of the axis was found to move by rather more than could be explained by precession and the gravitational attraction of the other planets.
Considered "uncommercial,"'Fatal Attraction' was rejected by 26 directors before Lyne expressed interest in the project, and the script went through several revisions before a suitable draft was completed. High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News
The protoplasm surrounding the centrosphere is frequently arranged in radiating fibrillar rows of granules, forming what is termed the attraction sphere. I. Embryology. 1. The Animal Cell
The development will also adjoin a pub and restaurant, as well as being handy for the shops and other visitor attractions in Pier Road.
Stacey felt a pull of attraction she tried to ignore.
It goes, however, slower and slower, and curving its journey less and less, until at last its motion in remote obscurity is again so sluggish, that the sun's attraction is once more predominant, and able to recall the truant towards its realms of light. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852

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