Sentence examples for than alluring from inspiring English sources

There's something inherently erotic about her full lips and Bambi eyes, but her expression is more apprehensive than alluring.

Repeatedly I was drawn to the flame, but when I reached the flame I found either no flame or a flame more risky than alluring.

Having covered Presidential campaigns since 1984, I found the notion of heading out in the dark to join tens of thousands of people forty miles away from our home, in Washington, less than alluring.

Yes, all I want for Christmas is the opportunity to see a weedy sea dragon up close, but though my children enjoyed Life, the seven-year-old really loved the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano – kind of Jurassic Park meets Madagascar, with Steve Backshall as distraction for those of us who found Mt Bosavi's giant rats less than alluring.

Why on earth, in the age of Amazon.com and automobiles, would you force yourself to read something less than alluring on vacation?

But it's a good reminder that these sneak peeks are nothing more than alluring, staged portraits.

IN "Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamett's play about cutthroat salesmen trying to move less-than-alluring residential real estate, the overarching mantra was "always be closing".

- underpopulated; the prevailing mood is alluring rather than alarming.

What Giorgio Armani saw from the bar, which sits atop his three-story behemoth of a store, was more than an alluring streetscape.

The simulation of their effect in a bioluminescent bay is more than sufficiently alluring, as the effects are in almost all the displays, providing a glimpse of a world that we cannot readily sample.

As long as they're quite sexy and not, you know, sustaining a human life through breastfeeding or doing anything other than being alluring, we like them.