9 sentences with 'attracted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word attracted and other words derived from it.
• « Originating in the Hellenistic kingdoms, many Romans were attracted to mystery religions, cults that promised spiritual salvation to their members. »
• « Many of the early adopters of Protestantism were attracted to the new movement because they were already enthusiastic supporters of church reform. »
• « Ignatius of Loyola soon attracted a following and was even briefly imprisoned on suspicion of heresy, as he claimed to offer "spiritual conversion" to those who followed his teachings. »
• « Rousseau went on to write novels and essays that attracted enormous attention both in France and abroad, asserting, among other things, that children should learn from nature by experiencing the world, allowing their natural goodness and character to develop. »
• « In turn, a number of monarchs and nobles were attracted by Enlightenment thought. They came to believe in many cases in the essential justice of the philosophers' arguments and saw nothing contradictory between the exercise of their power and the ideas of the Enlightenment. »
• « In the early 18th century, educated elites attracted by romanticism set out to bring these traditions together and preserve them in the service of an imagined national identity. »
• « In turn, the nobles were wary of the middle class, especially as many bourgeois were attracted to potentially disruptive ideologies such as liberalism and, increasingly, nationalism, but over the course of the century the two classes tended to mix along wealth lines. »
• « After the Greek uprising, the Ottoman Empire entered a period of sharp decline in power, and its territories attracted the unwanted attention of European states. »