Sentence examples for show attraction from inspiring English sources

Buck used to flatter me: "Cozy how my big Show attraction stands right up across the road from your nice Shelter attraction, Esther".

For the four women of this show, attraction usually leads to sex or the possibility of sex; marriage (as one of them learns) doesn't necessarily lead to either one.

A parade case involves reflexive-antecedent dependencies, which rarely show attraction effects.

Labeled "the missing link" or "bear woman," she toured the world as a freak show attraction.

Joseph Merrick because of his physical deformities became a side show attraction for audiences in London and Belgium.

Several studies have demonstrated that female mice show attraction to male songs [23], [24].

The son of one of the 20th century's most famous freak show attractions is coming to terms with his dad's legacy and the man's infamous 1992 murder.

In Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor, author Elizabeth Young theorized that Crane may also have been inspired by popular freak show attractions such as Zip the Pinhead, whose real name was William Henry Johnson, and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man.

After his death, at 47, a group of more than 40 of these busts were sold en masse, shipped to Vienna and exhibited, accompanied by added names and a brochure, as a freak-show attraction in a carnival.

First shown as a reserved-seat, road-show attraction in Cinerama theaters, it is little more than a 176-minute version of the roller-coaster ride "This Is Cinerama" that introduced the format in 1952, a high-speed tour of the principal stops on the Formula One tour, with the spectator, as often as possible, strapped into the driver's seat.

That desire, however, has usually been compounded by a set of complicated, ambiguous and often sadistic ideals that worked to the detriment of black women; as was the case with the exploitation of Sara Baartman -- the young woman taken from her native South Africa in the 19th century, dubbed "Hottentot Venus" and displayed in London as a semi-nude freak-show attraction.