Search Details

Word: unappealingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Its best-known flophouse, the Crawford, has burned down, and the Old Howard is dead, which leaves nothing but two unappealing (and expensive) "nightclubs", sundry pinball arcades, and an all night movie house called the Rialto.

Author: By Rober W. Gordon, | Title: Boston: Unchanging Evil Spinster | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

The two homosexual affairs of Proust that Author Painter chronicles were with Reynaldo Hahn. a talented pianist and composer, and Lucien Daudet. foppish son of the famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advanced Proustmanship | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Although Sergel adapts and cuts the book freely, he has not come up with much unity or much of a plot: George is encouraged to leave home by his mother and restrained by his father and by his love for a rather unappealing banker's daughter,and then, ironically,by...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Winesburg, Ohio | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Those men who were reached were presented with a rather unappealing list of recommended charities to which to give. Having already given roughly $2100 to the World University Service during the Hungarian relief drive, many students were faced with a choice between WUS, PBH, the Salzburg Seminar, the American Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bad Samaritans | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

Dr. Loren C. Eiseley of the University of Pennsylvania added that Neanderthal man did not have fangs or other wild-animal features. These unappealing characteristics were given to him by heavy-handed reconstructors. He could not have been as brutish as his detractors say. His face and skull certainly had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Molecules & Men | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | Next