Sentence examples for lost their attraction from inspiring English sources

As people have become more cynical, better informed and more egalitarian, so politicians, soldiers and saints have lost their attraction.

Within a decade garbage closets, silver vaults, jewelry safes and central vacuum systems had lost their attraction.

"The great ideas that once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions".

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla .-- After the Yankees moved their spring training base from Fort Lauderdale to Tampa in 1996, and Major League Baseball instituted interleague play in 1997, exhibition games in Florida between the Yankees and the Mets lost their attraction.

There was a similar but much less severe bear market in the 1970s.As Internet stocks have lost their attraction and some technology firms have warned of profit declines, caused in part by the impact of the weak euro on their European revenues, there may be a "flight to quality".

"The great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions," he said.

"The first was the gradual opening of a gulf between the ideas of Islamist radicals and the needs of ordinary Muslims, in whose eyes utopian ideals were progressively losing their attraction.

In the dark the movements of a female obviously lose their attraction, as the male cannot see them.

Eriksen tries to survive as society has devolved into tribes armed to the teeth and ruled by aggression and violence; he also tries to understand how humans lost their inherent attraction to being social.

A few drops of rain fell here, which is about as rare an occurrence as a traffic jam in the desert, but organisers of the Dubai Duty Free Championships must have felt like they were in the middle of a downpour as they lost their second major attraction in as many days.

During the season, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, afraid to lose their No. 1 attraction, pressured Matsui to stay with the club.