Word: beckon
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...times, such efforts at intimacy tend toward the pedantic. Midway through the play’s intermission, Stark emerges from backstage and begins to toy with the hanging sculpture. Her inviting looks and teasing air seem to beckon viewers to play along. Some audience members joined in, but the rest of the room froze. It’s one thing to slip into Laura’s world, another to be dragged...
...tournament’s abrupt end, the teams soon realized what thousands of tourists, misfit best friends, and Katy Perry have realized before them: when there’s time to kill and nothing of interest for thousands of miles, the bright lights and dark clubs of The Strip beckon...
Akpan joins a Rapids team that is eager to enter the upper echelon of MLS clubs. Colorado has narrowly missed the playoffs in each of their last three seasons, but their off-season transactions (and talent on the offensive side of the ball) could beckon a new era of success...
...there was always one ray of light that had the power to shake seniors out of their 16-years-of-education-induced ennui, that could beckon them -- in hordes -- out of the insular comfort of their spacious suites and prompt them to make the pilgrimage to the northern reaches of campus: Upper Hall...
...after you think great thoughts, you still need to get noticed. Without famous professors to call or rich donors to beckon, you place all your chips on one thing: the mail. Thankfully, a few of your envelopes breathe fresh air. The media, like “The Hartford Courant” or WDRC, report your efforts; they’re amazed someone bothered to look that stuff...