Yet a few blocks away, Jeanine Cinseruli was bemoaning the visionary decision she made five years ago, when she bought a four-family house on Third Street, thinking she would cash in on the wave of mostly gay, urban trendsetters who were just discovering the diamond-in-the-rough appeal of this faded resort.
The second occasion was to publicize a concert; canny Zhurbin borrowed the buskers' rough-edged appeal.
He said he had been half-starved and made to live rough, and appealed for his true parents to come forward and take him home.
Although his countenance is more gnarled than in his youth, he yet commands the kind of rough-hewn appeal that doubtless still charms the pants off ladies half his age.
One thought: If the case is argued before a jury, Mr. Morvillo, who thinks swiftly but speaks plainly and has a rough-edged appeal, may be able to extend his mantle over his frosty client.
PJ has the kind of sinewy, rough-trade appeal that makes rich pedophiles want to invite him to their mansion in Vermont or their pied à terre in Montreal.
It has a rough, artisanal-looking appeal lacking in mass-produced terracotta.
And because many of the plants that produced it have been razed or mothballed, jewelry made of this material — known as enamel slag or "rough" — has nostalgic appeal.
If one of the defining features of a national treasure is universal appeal, rough diamonds are more likely to divide opinion.
It might not have had the seductive allure of Dan Pearson's garden bridge journey from pioneer species to cultivated glades, but it had its own rough and ready appeal, with plans for a climbing wall on one of the bridge's vast abutments, outdoor amphitheatres and boardwalks weaving between the marshy expanses.
The building's rough-edged sex appeal may actually overshadow what's best about the project, the remarkable skill with which Mr. Nouvel embeds it into its surroundings.
