Hockney, the veteran showoff, is prepossessing again, in an instructive way.
The journalist, who put all the society notions into Mary Lou's head was Tommy Warren, who, it is set forth in a subtitle, "won the Pulitzer prize for the remarkable imagination he displayed in making out his expense account".Larry Kent is prepossessing as young Latour.
Two scruffy-looking pieces of broiled fish with tails tucked back were not prepossessing, but to our surprise they were delicious, firm-textured and moist, proof that looks aren't everything, even in fish.
They are one of the most prepossessing sights in southern England, a polished stegosaurus back rising from the Severn plain, the spa town of Great Malvern nestling in their green flanks with an almost Italianate elegance.
The early TV anchors of the postwar 1940's -- Douglas Edwards at CBS and John Cameron Swayze on NBC's "Camel News Caravan" -- were hardly prepossessing, and their shows, with often merely a globe for a prop, were primitive.
Consider the predicament Joey from Friends gets into when he uses a thesaurus without also consulting a dictionary: "They're warm, nice people with big hearts" becomes "They're humid, prepossessing homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps".[4] If you're going to use a thesaurus to spice up your vocabulary, look up your new words in the dictionary to determine their precise meaning.
And so writers John Brownlow and Don Macpherson and director Mat Whitecross have done their best to find that past that is prelude, to create scenes and scenarios with the flavor of the films later made from Fleming's books — even as they are stuck with a hero (Dominic Cooper in the title role) somewhat less prepossessing than the one he invented.
When they arrive at the table, there is nothing prepossessing about the fried artichokes served at La Vara, a four-month-old Spanish restaurant in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
His figure was not prepossessing.
The compound's neighborhood, called Bilal Town, isn't prepossessing.
The book begins with a modest self-introduction from its narrator: "My personal appearance, I must acknowledge, is not prepossessing, as I resemble a Scotch bagpipe in form".
