But closer to downtown, Carolina Rivera finds herself in a decidedly less attractive environment — the crowded office of the Community Services Agency, where she is looking for a job.
My surprise, then, was complete when on meeting her at a hotel in Park Lane where she and Mandela stay when they are in London, she came across from the moment we shook hands as an easy-going, self-assured woman, decidedly more attractive in every way than the one I remembered meeting in the course of an interview I had done with Mandela at his home in Johannesburg five years earlier.
Amid the downturn in the global economy, the once-booming IT services outsourcing sector has begun to look decidedly less attractive as American companies cut back spending.
But its nearly palindromic structure — the attractive but decidedly unrelaxed "Entrance" and its quiet, melancholy farewell, and the encounters with hunters both in the second movement and again in the second to last — creates a big picture with a palpable emotional undercurrent.
But small design flourishes make this a very attractive, and decidedly modern piece of stereo kit.
But now, thanks to a handful of artisans, there are attractive, handcrafted goods for a decidedly modern (and Instagram-friendly) outdoor culinary experience.
What remains is a loose and lazy caper, held together by the decidedly unstrenuous performances of a gaggle of charming and attractive actors, many of them apparently flown in for a handful of scenes and a round of tropical drinks.
Graham himself had made the twisted sexual blackmailer less attractive and more darkly believable, a piece of decidedly contemporary noir.
But the thoughts they had about themselves (when asked questions such as "How attractive do you find yourself?" and "How satisfied are you with your body?") were decidedly gloomier.
