Sentence examples for if appealing from inspiring English sources

Those by Ulysses Dove ("Episodes," "Urban Folk Dance") are flashily nasty; Matthew Rushing's "Uptown" is an earnest lecture-demo with obvious if appealing dance illustrations.

Elderly staff members and their outmoded, if appealing, routines were retired (one ward nurse had spent her workdays knitting blankets for her patients).

This city always offers an eerie if appealing edge in peddling the notion that people behind in their luck can escape from ordinary life.

American Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, has issued a statement explaining her position, as if appealing for public calm at the outbreak of a world war.

When pressed as to how he was going to respond to the latest diktat from Number Ten on broadcasting, he would simply raise his eyebrows as if appealing to the gods.

(The risk is that growth will prove more vandalistic than poverty: UNESCO, the UN's culture and conservation body, is worried that the dockyards development will mar Liverpool's world heritage-listed waterfront).The Liverpool brand is clearly a tricky, if appealing, proposition.

Allen Hershkowitz's dream of building a mill in the Bronx for recycled newsprint was nothing if not appealing.

"If one looks appealing, I see if there is a free version to try first," he said.

Mr. Lerman and especially Ms. Watson are also appealing if comparably less vital presences.

And he was a painter of appealing if not highly original abstractions.

"Pounding the streets is only appealing if you feel you own the policies," he said.