Sentence examples for has a certain allure from inspiring English sources

The claim has a certain allure.

Here's why the emergency room has a certain allure.

Non-existent HR policies and a laissez-faire attitude to office-based alcoholism might jar with today's sensibilities, but with a swanky setting, stylish fittings and inexhaustible supplies of scotch the office still has a certain allure.

Evil has a certain allure at the best of times, but we're all so conditioned to it coming in the form of sweaty men with flakes of eczema falling on to their grubby easy-iron slacks – in police dramas, anyway – that his attractiveness provokes unease, setting the tone for the rest of the drama.

The Bagger went to the theater this weekend and saw the movie, which is a visual tutorial of early American history, but he wondered, "Why don't people talk in movies anymore?" The use of over-narration as a cutline on lush pictures and people twirling about has a certain allure, but every once in a while, the Bagger wanted to hear the star-crossed lovers actually speak to each other.

We are long-time fans of share buybacks, but the ability to convert the accounts to general spending cards has a certain allure from a long-term income standpoint.

In a society that reveres rugged individualism, self-employment has always had a certain allure.

In modern Russia the Vory have a certain allure, in part because of their association with prison life.

Custom fishing rods have a certain allure about them that no factory-made rod can match (as David Churbuck writes about in this week's column).

The tiny percentage of consumer-facing startups with a high propensity for global success have a certain allure, but the high failure rate and inconsistently lumped funding makes them inadvisable for most entrepreneurs to pursue.

All this has a certain mystical allure, if not the power to persuade the unconvinced.