allurement

There are maps made up of place names, of Google drop pins, of the lines between stops – the allurements of cartography, and the nominal romance of the road, deployed this time in the service not of escape but of capture.

These same allurements exist in the United States, just cloaked in the shadows by boosters trying to evade NCAA detection.

To be clear, China’s threats and allurements won’t drag the region away from the unmatched political and cultural influence of America.

The whole land breathed hope, and youth, and allurement to every delight, of which she alone possessed the store.