alluring

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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The book’s playful interrogation of traditional gender expectations is sharpened with the introduction of 1855 Caleb, a fantasy and a nightmare, a stern, quiet man who Natalie finds both terrifying and alluring.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek helped Ottinger, 83, write the script, which is set in some of Vienna's most alluring locations.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

On the luxe end of the spectrum, European ski towns like St. Anton and Morzine offer an alluring blend of work and play, Burton says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead