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attraction

An attraction is a force that pulls two things together. s have an attraction to metal. I feel a strong attraction to my husband. I don't understand your attraction to rough men. An attraction is a popular feature at an event or site. Elephants and lions are major attractions at many zoos. Country western singer Vince Gill was a big attraction at the State Fair. The Alamo is a tourist attraction in Texas. Something that causes interest, pleasure, or liking for someone are something. she has romantic ideas about sexual attraction

attraction

the force by which one object attracts another the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts her personality held a strange attraction for him an entertainment that is offered to the public (= attractor) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts flowers are an attractor for bees (= drawing card, draw) an entertainer who attracts large audiences he was the biggest drawing card they had

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Simple sentences

This kind of amusement has no attraction for me.
The elephants are the chief attraction at the circus.
I feel a strong attraction to the music of Beethoven.
Do you feel any attraction for this book?
About the wedding. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction, so instead of doing it on a shoestring, why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?
Describe a tourist attraction you would like to visit.
Even though a daughter rarely likes her mother's lover, a mother always has a certain attraction for her daughter's lover.
Her attraction was dubious even after the second glass of wine.
What you call love is nothing more than just attraction.
But it was not successful for long because everyone, even religious people, had a strong attraction to the game.
The mass of the planets is calculated according to the law of universal attraction.

Movie subtitles

You're going to be my top attraction.
I saw your attraction to my patient last night, and hers to you.
You'd love to show her as a freak attraction.
And now, I'll show you the greatest attraction of all.
That's my chief attraction.
Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?
Just when St. Louis was going to be the center of attraction of the universe.
He began to enjoy the whole thing thoroughly. and reveled in the fact that he was the center of attraction.
I feel a great attraction to that face.
As a favour, the lady who was our star attraction has agreed to give us the song she made the sensation of the South.
Believe me, I can quite understand. your attraction to a lusty animal.
What could possibly be your attraction?
I suppose it was the elusiveness of Liz. which was her main attraction.
A world-famous attraction ever since.
Shut those honorable kissers, because here comes the main attraction!
Great attraction.
Another attraction?
Over here, over here, over here, folks, we have a free attraction.
The guests get beaten up, the entertainer disappears, and the main attraction is sick.
It's wonderful, the attraction, on the feeble-minded, of course.
There was a physical attraction.
Well, I believe her money is the prime attraction.
Elder statesmen of the theatre or cinema assure the public that actors and actresses are just plain folks, ignoring the fact that their greatest attraction to the public is their complete lack of resemblance to normal human beings.
So this is the attraction, huh?
Not another attraction?
Of course, we're now escaping Earth's attraction.
I was thinking Miss Hamilton here is quite an attraction.
He will propose eventually, but it would hasten things considerably if I had the added attraction of a dowry.
I am the attraction here.
I thought I'd see what the big attraction was.
What's the big attraction, I wonder?
Uh-huh. -lt's only a physical attraction.
She's got a physical attraction to me.
What's the difference between a physical attraction and just a regular attraction?

News and current affairs

The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.
People vary in their ability to attract others, and their attraction depends partly on inherent traits, partly on learned skills, and partly on social context.
Some dimensions of personal attraction, such as appearance and non-verbal communication, can be tested.
But the attraction depends on seeing what is at the core of the family tradition.
When we live up to our own best traditions, we can stimulate emulation and create the soft power of attraction.
The bad news is that he still does not understand soft power - the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion.
A well-run military can be a source of attraction, and military cooperation and training programs can establish transnational networks that enhance a country's soft power.
A recent Pew poll found that many Europeans have lost their attraction to the US and would like Europe to play a larger role in world politics.
Similarly, countries like Turkey and Ukraine have adjusted their policies in response to their attraction to Europe.
Of course, the economic prosperity that European unification has delivered undoubtedly lures new members, but the EU's attraction extends far beyond pocketbook issues.
Fortunately, given the Union's attraction for most ordinary Ukrainians, there is still hope that simple realism will persuade Yanukovych and Ukraine's ruling elite to return to a path that would allow for the association agreement to be signed.
With new patent laws coming into place, India will have the same attraction for the pharmaceutical industry as it has for IT, providing clinical trials for new drugs at a quarter of the cost of Europe or the US.
What is the source of this attraction, this magic?
Yet that would be the outcome if the attraction towards the center proves to be as irresistible for significant segments of the Socialists and conservative parties as it now seems.
The nature of their attraction has to do with two strains in American thought to which the US left and media establishment are truly blind.
In the 1990's, the main attraction of monetary union for Italian and Spanish politicians was that the new currency would bring down interest rates and make foreign money available for cheap financing of government debt.
In some fundamentalist circles, and among the terrorists, Western culture evokes repulsion, not attraction.
When we live up to our own best traditions, we can stimulate emulation and generate the soft power of attraction.
These women are Amsterdam's leading tourist attraction (followed by the coffee shops that sell marijuana).
When the national bathtub has holes, and other people benefit from the warmth, the exercise loses its attraction.
In essence, dialectic of attraction and rejection is embedded in our collective conscience as Jews and Europeans.
These values hold great attraction for the people in the former Soviet Union-and that includes the leaders as well as the masses, in spite of the fact that the West did not back up its values and principles with deeds in the past.
Success in maintaining a fixed rate was touted as an attraction to foreign investors.

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