Set largely in 1952, when Nixon was tapped as Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate, "Checkers" gives its central character some less than attractive traits: a quick temper, scary flashes of paranoia and a penchant for playing fast and loose with the truth.
Mr Kim says it has begun to exhibit some of the least attractive traits of the chaebol, in particular by buying up smaller potential rivals and by using its market power to stop other portals getting access to content.
Describing her character arc in Buffy, Mary Alice Money views Cordelia as one of many transformed or redeemed Buffy characters, one who "reveals a previously unexpected vulnerability that nullifies some of their less attractive traits".
In some ways, therefore, he is good presidential timber, except that one of his most attractive traits—his belief in secularism also seems to rule him out as a president.
After intermission, less attractive traits surfaced.
Hearst's persistent vindictiveness was one of his least attractive traits.
Yet this sense of solidarity carries with it less attractive traits: a degree of insularity, sexism and racism.
Though Swafford does not look away from the composer's less attractive traits — his brusqueness, his crudeness, his alcoholism, his paranoia — the portrait is ultimately admiring.
In general, tech, industrial and health care stocks share a couple of attractive traits: earnings of all three grew faster than the broad market in the second quarter.
He underscores Mrs. Clinton's intelligence, toughness and resilience but also describes less than attractive traits that have more often been ascribed to George W. Bush: religious convictions that "to some bordered on a messiahlike self-perception," a "demand for absolute loyalty," a discomfort with being challenged.
