Headscarves keep hair clean, declare seriousness and modesty to pestering men and are a cheap way to make oneself look presentable.It is only natural that religiosity should extend to politics, particularly given Islamic traditions that, in the absence of a Muslim "church", see defence of the faith as a duty of the state.
I'll need time to make myself presentable.
My hair is large, frizzy, having its own struggle against my futile efforts to make it "presentable".
I missed it on air, and I can't imagine how much of it, with challenging editing, they managed to air to make it presentable.
We make ourselves presentable before important meetings, or when going on dates, altering our body odour with cologne, removing blemishes with make-up and so on.
And it just doesn't seem possible to get to the gym, change, work out, shower, make yourself presentable again, and make it back to the office within an hour.
Yet, compared with the roughness and vigor of the mezcals, many of the tequilas seemed wan, as if all their inherent rusticity had been rasped away in an effort to make them presentable in polite company.
"So, it is our duty to preserve this bungalow and make it presentable".
We have used various graphing techniques and algorithms to make data presentable in an as useful way as possible.
We don't have to make ourselves presentable or acceptable to God.
Naturally, all countries like to make themselves presentable and gloss over uncomfortable truths.
