Sentence examples for superficial attraction from inspiring English sources

But Howell added that the artificial increase in followers might have a superficial attraction, but offers no long-term benefits.

Shifting resources from agriculture to infrastructure has a superficial attraction, but, as Stephen Hale, director of the Green Alliance, points out, it is not especially green.

Uefa's decision has some superficial attraction, not least to those who fly from venue to venue, staying in five-star hotels that are booked and paid for by someone else.

I remember consoling her about my popularity with boys, trying to assure her it was superficial attraction and anyone who got to know her would adore her in a second.

Beside the basic kindness and generosity that you'd look for in a husband and the more superficial attraction, it's impossible to know who will rise and who will sink like a stone when adversity moves in for a long stay.

Having by then heard him do better things in better music, a listener was prepared to accept these more superficial attractions on their own terms.

They argued that the integrity of the licence fee was essential to the BBC's future as a creative organisation and that whatever the superficial attractions of using the money to prop up other broadcasters the idea should be rejected.

His donnish gaze could peer beyond her superficial attractions, however, and see that she was "an Enlightenment fundamentalist", the mirror image of Islamist fundamentalists, even though Hirsi Ali did not advocate the murder of gays, apostates and Jews and the establishment of a global theocratic tyranny.

Other studies, however, have reported that their superficial attractions such as cool-headed or cold-blooded behavior help them to climb the corporate ladder (Babiak et al. 2010).

This purely "kinematic" approach has some superficial attractions but it lacks elegance and neglects the fact that we are not really completely free to specify the two phase velocities in an arbitrary fashion.

Instead of trying to replicate the speedy, superficial, market-targeted attractions already widely available, cricket might aim to offer something different, something against the grain of the neoliberal age.