Let the wholly unappealing faces of the Republican Party, the Debbie Downer caucus, spout off like Jimmy Carter did in 1979 about "limitations" and what we cannot do as a nation.
As the number of imperiled buildings grows, the city, struggling with its own cash shortage, faces unappealing choices.
But the idea of receiving cash — and then a bill for it later — is often unappealing to those facing a precarious financial future.
The author has a repertoire of cultural references, quotes and a knack for illustration of what would otherwise be arid philosophical quandaries: the ethics of a bossy fridge that rebukes its owner for its unhealthy contents; the digital nightclub door that turns away people deemed too unappealing by its face-recognition software.
When Americans look at the current roster of Republican and Democratic leaders, Gingrich said, they face an unappealing dilemma.
And so Northern Ireland's people face the unappealing prospect of being governed by its two most destructive extremes.Yet this, ironically, is why it could work.
Absent presidential buy-in, Republicans face the unappealing prospect of pursuing tax reform on their own, and they are divided over how to proceed.
People wary of Facebook now face an unappealing choice between pervasive surveillance by a powerful company or pulling out of a bedrock tool of modern life.
The recommendation may be enough to send former radiation patients scurrying to their doctors.Patients face an unappealing choice: have radiation therapy and risk later getting heart disease; avoid it, and reduce the chance of surviving cancer.
Businesses who supply digital services in Europe face an unappealing choice between losing sales from Europe and therefore remaining VAT exempt in the UK, or having to pay an extra 20% on all earnings in the UK.
If the Freedom Party gets close to the 20% voting share predicted in most polls, the two big parties will face an unappealing choice: either join forces with an irresponsible rabble-rouser, risking a repeat of the country's 1990s isolation; or revert once again to a discredited grand coalition, with the built-in conflicts that make governing Austria so hard.
