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.
Mock, if you must, the rigmarole that goes into choosing a new pope – the conclaves, the repeated voting, the concluding puffs of white smoke – but it is more prepossessing and far less predictable than observing handovers at the fund, which are no more transparent or open.
Not the most immediately prepossessing of subjects, it is not the most immediately prepossessing of novels.
It was her prepossessing turn on that global stage, belting a dramatically embellished "O Canada," that effectively served as her debutante ball.
Like a number of other Neotropical thrushes, it is not a very prepossessing bird, being mainly dull brown over the upperparts, becoming paler brown below, with a whitish throat streaked darker, and pinkish legs, and a slightly yellow bill.
It is often said that even the least prepossessing backbenchers arrive in Westminster thinking they could one day be prime minister.
Gary Philo's "String Trio" is a knotty, closely argued and not immediately prepossessing work in two movements, and Arthur Krieger's "Four Settings of William Carlos Williams" seems an angular and unfathomably convoluted song cycle that has virtually nothing to do with the simple, amiable, little poems on which it is built.
It was obviously Egyptian, and very prepossessing.
Perhaps it's not the most prepossessing kind of place, with only a few remains of its rich history, but everyone agrees that Leicester is successfully redeveloping itself into a hip and happenin' city.
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".
