Powerful attractions

Usage examples of allures.

McCarthy's fundamental thesis was absolutely correct: The Democratic Party had fallen to the allures of totalitarianism.

By allowing non-Communist European nations to flourish, the Marshall Plan strengthened Western Europe, and immunized it from the allures of Soviet Communism.

What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

It is like the beauty of woman, which allures the more the more that it is vailed.

He intuitively saw what Schiller has so well expressed, that it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible, allures with irresistible enchantment He probed this general psychological law, in its subtle windings through the mystic chambers of our being, as it was never probed before, until he stood in the very abyss of its center, the sole master of its effects.

To weak indulgence he allures the mind, Loth to be duped, but willing to be kind.

This love of nature, that allures to take Irregularity for harmony Of larger scope than our hard measures make, Cherish it as thy school for when on thee The ills of life descend.

But in men of Richard's stamp that which allures the fancy will, if circumstances give but a little encouragement, soon take hold upon the planning brain.