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The sequence is a masterly example of sustained gag-building, and proof that, even for the most inoffensive and presentable man, everything can go disastrously wrong.
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He also makes a request of his assistant, Rob, the presentable young man who hovers unobtrusively and protectively.
In Mr Cameron the Tories have a disturbingly presentable front man, able to woo the southern types whom his harsher, balder predecessors alienated.
In the course of his records so far, tasteful has very much been a watchword: this is a presentable young man, and his songs sound like something on an Acid Jazz compilation that Paul Weller might once have got into.
The "presentable young man" on the make who grew so seamlessly into his impostures that he was described by nearly every one of his friends as the "perfect gentleman" — perhaps because he possessed the flair and refinement of a snob without actually being one — knew that pathos, like complacency, is fundamentally vulgar and unamusing.
"He's a very likable, very presentable young man who I don't think fully appreciates the hurt that's been inflicted on him".
An estimable fortune is brought low, and along with it the racquet club morale and ethical code by which Carter Darling, the founding billionaire of a seemingly unassailable hedge fund, has led his life and steered his family: his lovely, frosty wife; his two unevenly accomplished daughters, and the highly presentable young men — one smarter and not to the WASP manner born — who have married them.
Another prototype is the presentable, clean-cut young man who spends years escorting debutantes to society balls and who, when asked if he harbors any homosexual inclinations, is at a loss for words.
The producers have ably managed to recruit some presentable and ambitious young men from the honking, bottlenecked entrance to fame's freeway.
But he was entirely presentable — a short, well-dressed man with a full head of curly white hair and an eager-to-please smile.
Women want a man who is presentable and looks good.
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