That success played no small role in giving Bush a different and more appealing aura in the early days of the GOP presidential contest.

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Yet anxiety permeates the atmosphere, giving this election an aura more tied to prayer, than policy.

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It's still not clear why auras are more problematic and potentially more dangerous than aura-free migraines.

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And few coaches had more of a professional aura.

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More so when stories and movies create an aura of superhuman characters that are enigmatic and talk in riddles.

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It's more about how they carry themselves and the aura they project.

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In every case, from iTunes to iCloud to accessories to data plans, Apple gets us to pay a bit more than the market rate for the pleasure of basking in the aura of those products.

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But this very aura of inviolability may be storing up problems, since it means that governments can borrow still more at cheap rates.

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