Not everyone agrees with Becker's thesis, but it holds a certain allure, because if crime is rational, then it should, at least in theory, be deterrable.
The area's emerging identity as a hip community in a Currier and Ives setting (the sort of place that has an active Old Road Society, dedicated to the preservation of a 6.6-mile unpaved stretch of the Old Albany Post Road) held a certain allure for people shopping for a home town unfreighted by conventional suburban vulgarities.
Still, it held a certain wacky charm.
Still, in an age of sanitized, politically correct playgrounds, even decrepit stepstreets like the one at Clifford Place hold a certain allure: the promise of outlaw fun.
The fact that many drawings are unsigned, making attribution a leap of faith, won't appeal to the cautious buyer yet holds a certain allure for gamblers, of whom there are many in this category, dealers say.
While hotel penthouses and villas hold a certain allure, savvy travelers can find even more of an exclusive experience in lofts.
As a transgender woman it holds a certain appeal.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Tourist destinations fall in and out of favor — Prague, Ibiza, the Dalmatian coast — but for more than a century, Niagara Falls has held a certain quaint, some would say corny, allure.
It lacks a certain allure.
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The falling water serves to give the entire landscape a certain allure that it doesn't have when the pavement is dry and the umbrellas are rolled tight in closets.
