Side's efforts to make his subjects presentable mirror the writer's obsession with control, with presenting the world in an aesthetic way.
That's all to the good, but it does mean those who loved his last solo record, Manipulator – on which Segall appeared to be offering his most presentable, tuneful face to the world – might sigh a little at Emotional Mugger.
By contrast, he suggested in an adroit attack on his more presentable rival, David Cameron, the Tory prime minister is an uncaring bully.
He also makes a request of his assistant, Rob, the presentable young man who hovers unobtrusively and protectively.
The gentlest and least vicious of men, Sargent took human nature at its most presentable for his terrain.
and told Sir Thomas Boleyn that his daughter was "so presentable and so pleasant, considering her youthful age, that I am more beholden to you for sending her to me, than you to me" (E.W. Ives, op.cit).. Anne stayed with Margaret from spring 1513 until her father arranged for her to attend Henry VIII's sister Mary, who was about to marry Louis XII of France in October 1514.
Whether you're a metrosexual or just a guy who wants his junk to be presentable, before you dudes go crazy with the razor, consider what the woman you get naked in front of is going to think about your strategic shaving.
The truth was that he was on trial for his job, and by extension – as a relatively young and presentable politician – for his career.
It should surprise none of Mr. King's readers that Scott Landon, beneath the popular and presentable surface, beyond "his forehead, behind which all the exotic storyfish swim," was one weird dude.
The duds had to express his inner self and look presentable -- not so easy when your inner self is as disheveled as Mr. Dick's.
Adams's talent for slicing through social and intellectual pretension is indistinguishable, in Ellis's mind, from his inability to maintain a presentable facade.
