Sentences with phrase «irresistible pull»
The phrase "irresistible pull" means that something is so attractive or compelling that it is impossible to resist or ignore. Full definition
I think I've realized that the car has a subtle, but almost irresistible pull because I think that I'm going to get a lot more done, more quickly, more efficiently with that torque under my right foot.
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Lusko became a Christian in high school, after which he sensed what he calls «an irresistible pull toward ministry.»
Still, that's only nine out of seventy - four films nominated for Best Picture, and none of them, it seems, have had the irresistible pull that the Academy hoped would return the Oscar ratings to the 50 million viewers range.
It's dark and the huge bonnet, beaded with moisture that gives the black paintwork a sinister matt finish, together with the deep strakes cut into the side profile, are an irresistible pull.
As Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman describe in their popular recent book, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, the fear of loss causes many unfortunate decisions and also paralyzes many from taking action.
And yet I felt the irresistible pull of need, the sense that I might be useful here.
SWAY by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman ($ 25, Doubleday): This book has a wonderful subtitle: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.
All the same, despite the seeming suddenness of Guston's shift to figuration, hints that he was trying to go in that direction (or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, trying to avoid an irresistible pull in that direction) are recurrent.
Multiplicity was an international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments and exposing the irresistible pull of the similarities — intercultural meeting points, common problems, goals and dreams — around which people converge.
Otherworldly color can ensnare the eyes with an irresistible pull — and seldom has it tugged more strongly than in a new video playing at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in its 20th annual juried exhibit of work by Virginia artists.
For the trained artists featured in the show, their unschooled counterparts exerted an irresistible pull as exemplars of vitality, ingenuity, sincerity, and a bracing lack of polish.
Laure Prouvost uses the irresistible pull of the narrative tradition within film to seduce and entertain the viewer with witty and mesmerising juxtapositions of text and image.
We are drawn by the irresistible pull of love and connection, yet we also long for inner peace and stillness.