The Iron Ghost by Jen Williams The highly anticipated sequel to the entertaining The Copper Promise, which featured appealing leads with a tendency to put self-interest ahead of heroism.
One of the book's least appealing aspects is its tendency to loose comparison: Stratford as Gaza, New Labour as Nazis, the O2 Dome as "England's Guantánamo", the Lea Valley as "our Poland, fought over by eco-romantics, entrenched Stalinists and political visionaries".
One of the Beatles' most appealing qualities is, again, their tendency more to self-parody than to parody of others.
I mean, if you're a squirrel, eating nuts and climbing trees and jumping from limb to limb is an awful lot more appealing than, say, the human tendency to watch lots of television or hit a small, round white ball around a golf course.
It is interesting that the second law of thermodynamics (which applies only to closed systems) can be resisted by appealing to the more general tendency of (open) systems to reduce their free-energy [35], [36].
A popular way of attracting people to a crowdfunding campaign is appealing to people's theatrical and perhaps narcissistic tendencies.
In a quick test of Prisma video ahead of the new feature launch I found results looked a little crude and were less immediately appealing vs Prisma's art filtered photos — with a tendency towards producing flickery footage.
Over-eating is easy because many people have a tendency to choose large portions that look appealing but contain more food than is needed to feel full.
Page is such an appealing presence that she makes Page's self-destructive tendencies easy to stomach.
Lord Bragg of Wigton's is a sharp but magpie mind, defined by its enthusiasm - which is such an appealing trait that it goes a long way to counterbalance his tendency to pepper his conversation with self-congratulatory anecdotes.
