Sentence examples for as prepossessing from inspiring English sources

Still, the present is not as prepossessing as the potential future.

Another displays collage studies for that work, which, in a scrappier sort of way, are as prepossessing as Picasso's drawings for "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".

Coincidentally, most of them look about as prepossessing as the average bunch of meat fibres emerging from dish of foetal bovine serum.

The book begins with a modest self-introduction from its narrator: "My personal appearance, I must acknowledge, is not prepossessing, as I resemble a Scotch bagpipe in form".

As on his prepossessing new debut album, "Nameless Neighbors" (Sunnyside) — which was produced by Fred Hersch, his mentor and former instructor at the New England Conservatory in Boston — he appears here with the bassist Henry Fraser and the drummer Connor Baker.

The journalist, who put all the society notions into Mary Lou's head was Tommy Warren, who, it is set forth in a subtitle, "won the Pulitzer prize for the remarkable imagination he displayed in making out his expense account".Larry Kent is prepossessing as young Latour.

Good natured and "prepossessing in his appearance", Ravilious was known as "Rav" or "The Boy", and spent much time in the common room chatting up girls.

His figure was not prepossessing.

The fellow himself was not terribly prepossessing.

Not the most immediately prepossessing of subjects, it is not the most immediately prepossessing of novels.

One tune, "Working Together," featured a pair of prepossessing young siblings, the pianist Samora Pinderhughes and the flutist Elena Pinderhughes, whom Mr. Belgrave had encountered as a guest instructor in the Bay Area.