The action is slow, takes a second or two to signal, and has a certain dramatic aura about it.

Then of course there is their fame, which lends a certain aura to even the most ordinary face.

A certain aura and calm was essential in the ops room.

"I think there is a certain aura about growing up in a different environment," Houston said.

And he brings a certain aura of the battler, too.

Still, there was a certain aura of laxness on this occasion.

The name gives it a certain aura of political legitimacy.

"There's a certain aura that big people eventually grow into," Thomas said.

Crises form heroes, and the risk of space flight means it will always have a certain aura.

They just had a certain aura of disloyalty about them.