Which preposition to use with attractiveness

of Occurrences 34%

but it is making fast progress in other countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime.

in Occurrences 6%

But there is no such recovery possible to the man who remembers what he once believed without being convinced that he was in error, who feels within him unsatisfied stirrings towards old beloved habits and intimacies from which he has far receded without conscious justification or unwavering sense of superior attractiveness in the new.

to Occurrences 6%

She wished to lay out her life to the best interest for God, and both schemes had special attractiveness to her; the one, because of its intensely spiritual work; the other, because of her love for nursing, and the boundless possibilities for good there might be in training nurses.

for Occurrences 2%

In such ways had the mother negotiated the needs of all her children; though the youth of the restsave the eldest girl, whose music lessons had meant a battle, and whose growing attractiveness for the boys of the district, and one in particular, was presently to mean anothermade as yet but small demands.

as Occurrences 2%

When the time was approaching in which Cleopatra appeared upon the stage, Rome was perhaps the only city that could be considered as the rival of Alexandria, in the estimation of mankind, in respect to interest and attractiveness as a capital.

about Occurrences 1%

[Footnote 6: Ibid., IV.] Theognis recognizes this high ideal of the duty and the beauty of truthfulness, when he says: "At first there is a small attractiveness about a lie, but in the end the gain it brings is both shameful and harmful.

with Occurrences 1%

On the other hand, there are people of no great obvious attractiveness with whom you feel instantaneously at ease.

at Occurrences 1%

She paid dearly for her fatal gift of attractiveness at Palhallanher eyes, usually so keen, being what is vulgarly termed "bunged up," and every vulnerable spot in like piteous plight!

by Occurrences 1%

In such a case, the pleasant things to come would lose their attractiveness by reason of having been dwelt on so long that their flavor was lost; and the unpleasant things would become unbearable by reason of the continual anticipation of them.

from Occurrences 1%

This sound reminded us that the sun would soon drop behind the hill, and that the Pomoyssin, to which we intended to pay a visit on our way home, was not a spot that gained attractiveness from the shades of night.

than Occurrences 1%

Or rather, to speak more strictly, the conception of physical beauty has been narrowed to mean a certain kind of physical beauty which no more exhausts the possibilities of external attractiveness than the respectability of a Clapham builder exhausts the possibilities of moral attractiveness.

Which preposition to use with  attractiveness