Sentence examples for appealing figure from inspiring English sources

In the person of Guillaume Depardieu (Gerard's son), he's a humorless but romantically appealing figure.

Agnes, drawn in a suggestive pencil stroke or two, is wary yet won over by this tormented, oddly appealing figure.

He becomes a staunch, appealing figure — a male nurturer who calls to mind Oates's moving portrait of her first husband, Raymond Smith, in her memoir, "A Widow's Story".

"Leonardo Cimino's van Gogh is a small, lively, appealing figure — appealing because he does not ask for pity," Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times.

Gibbon was an appealing figure.

John Coetzee himself is an appealing figure: discreet, professorial, and soft-spoken.

More appealing figures are De Hory, Keating and Hebborn, although Hebborn's murder in 1996 remains unsolved.

And when you add Obama, who is himself popular around the world, to that mix, the US would have very powerful and appealing figures to bring to bear in public diplomacy.

And it is striking how powerful and appealing the figure of the Black Father has become in the past 25 years — how many younger, more iconoclastic performers have come home to Cliff Huxtable.

However, the city is currently appealing this figure, arguing that the Census Bureau missed a section of residents that would place the total population over 100,000, and indeed, even the Census Bureau's own estimate for Davenport's 2011 population is 100,802.

The difficulty involved in finding the ideal combination of band gaps and lattice constants makes spectrum splitting multijunctions where the subcells are not placed on top of each other but next to each other quite appealing (see Figure 1 b).