Hockney, the veteran showoff, is prepossessing again, in an instructive way.
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.
The compound's neighborhood, called Bilal Town, isn't prepossessing.
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".
When they arrive at the table, there is nothing prepossessing about the fried artichokes served at La Vara, a four-month-old Spanish restaurant in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Two scruffy-looking pieces of broiled fish with tails tucked back were not prepossessing, but to our surprise they were delicious, firm-textured and moist, proof that looks aren't everything, even in fish.
Consider the predicament Joey from Friends gets into when he uses a thesaurus without also consulting a dictionary: "They're warm, nice people with big hearts" becomes "They're humid, prepossessing homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps".[4] If you're going to use a thesaurus to spice up your vocabulary, look up your new words in the dictionary to determine their precise meaning.
The early TV anchors of the postwar 1940's -- Douglas Edwards at CBS and John Cameron Swayze on NBC's "Camel News Caravan" -- were hardly prepossessing, and their shows, with often merely a globe for a prop, were primitive.
His figure was not prepossessing.
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".
Mary Philbin is quite prepossessing as Hannerl, and Betty Compson is vivacious as Mitzel.
