Other attributes heightened its allure.
Gardner had heightened the allure of the story by having the glass plate negatives retouched for public show, in a way that Photoshop software might be used today.
Obama's choice of Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate physicist, as secretary of energy only heightened the allure.
Espousing a strict avoidance of junk food seems only to heighten its allure for children.
Shrouding adult notions in nursery rhyme vernacular, the book invites notoriety; its dream imagery and somewhat veiled drug references only heighten the allure.
Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect, speaks six languages, and although his English is less than perfect, its wrinkles only heighten the allure of his pronouncements.
Though the artists don't always appear to have a great feel for aesthetics, the raw simplicity of the sculptured forms, combined with their colorful natural material, heightens their allure and attractiveness.
But the epithet "exotic beauty" has been used for centuries to characterize almost any colonial woman whose allure is heightened by her otherness.
Its allure is heightened when rendered in off-hours fabrics like velvet or plaid; in unsober colors like white, red or green; or when accented with a subtle braided trim on the lapel.
A poor seamstress portrayed as a fevered beauty whose allure is heightened by physical decline, Mimì loves a poor poet named Rodolfo.
