Sentence examples for less glamorous for from inspiring English sources

However, as you work down the list of other safety features, though things cost less money and are increasingly effective, they require more and continuous management effort and are less glamorous for the bosses.

Ms. Clayburgh, who began her career in films and on Broadway in the late 1960s, was among the first generation of young actresses — including Ellen Burstyn, Carrie Snodgress and Marsha Mason — who regularly portrayed characters sprung from the new feminist ethos: smart, capable and gritty, sometimes neurotic, but no less glamorous for all that.

He will have to devote all his energy and political resources to face organized crime and the rampant corruption it produces -- a task that will be much more complicated than passing the reforms and much less glamorous for his image.

For the A's — the less glamorous of the Bay Area teams — the attention is a novelty, Matsui the rare celebrity in their midst.

Then there was the less glamorous reason for the sales increases: the weather.

It would require some latent deficiency, in a less glamorous register, for Frankel to prove remotely vulnerable.

Meanwhile, the American novelist John Irving revealed that he was trawling Edinburgh's less glamorous underbelly for his new book, Until I Find You, which is partly set in Leith.

But to write five novels (Scott) or seventeen (Nabokov) — to make a career — you must have, with brilliance, a number of less glamorous virtues, for example, patience, resilience, and courage.

The new show would be a far less glamorous perch for King, who used to host "John King USA" but had that primetime show yanked from CNN's lineup last year.

AC/DC and Steely Dan — two classic-rock acts booked in part to expand the festival's reach among older fans willing to pay for pricey VIP packages — played deeply satisfying versions of shows they've each been playing in less glamorous venues for years.

We did an excellent drag dress up for London Pride and a less glamorous dress up for one Halloween when we transformed into The Hairy Sisters… But the geisha transformation was the most professional one we've done.