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  • Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
  • The choices of main courses were unappealing and didn't taste any better than they sounded.
  • And there's the small matter that Jules appears to dig sex with Paul (though it's filmed as unappealingly as the Nic-Jules duos). Erica Abeel: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT IS THE REST OF AMERICA?
  • Michael Olowokandi and Eric Williams are two of the most unappealing, untalented players in the history of the game! Sharief Easterling: Love & Hip Hop: The Coon Squad
  • The Vino Nobile of the firm and drying tannins was a 2003 and had some unappealing overcooked fruit aromas going on. Sasha Smith
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  • With circumstances and your priorities changing, what's unappealing now could soon hold allure. Times, Sunday Times
  • No matter how keen you are to show off the fruits of a fortnight's sunbathing, excessive cleavage or leg can look cheap and unappealing.
  • He's wearing a deeply unappealing baseball hat.
  • I guess it must be nearly impossible to transcend the uninviting, unappealing, unnerving stigma of hospitals - regardless of good or bad design.
  • But while its scope is admirable, the play has an unappealing didactic tone. Times, Sunday Times
  • The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.
  • That does seem to be the important push these days - convincing people that sustainable food, clothing, practices etc. are more mainstream than the traditional image of unwashed hippies eating lentils while wearing hemp in their off-the-grid log cabin - or the more modern but still unappealing yuppie couple who ride bicycles everywhere, use cloth diapers and recycle their dishwater, and eat tofurky. Stylish and sustainable
  • With circumstances and your priorities changing, what's unappealing now could soon hold allure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lieberman unappealingly then went on to castigate Obama via a demeaning rhetorical pat on the head by asserting that maybe in the future Obama would amount to something. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Moose Bull Party of St. Paul
  • The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate.
  • It's Valentine's Day but fortunately my wife and I both find the idea of dictated romance unappealing.
  • Vincent Astor, twenty years old when his unappealingly acquisitive father drowned on the Titanic, displayed a more conscientious attitude towards his great fortune. Chaplin’s Girl
  • He's an unappealing throwback to the days of '80s City slickers.
  • Maybe we can learn from that generation's thrift; though the ad for unwanted artificial teeth is rather unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, imagine how years of fry-cooking grease-laden air will affect that jute rope they are made of and what it may look like if seldom cleaned and you will get an idea why I only went there once and why the word macrame is terribly unappealing. Fashion World of SL
  • A festival based entirely around garlic might sound an unappealing prospect. Times, Sunday Times
  • Enforcing quotas would be unappealingly illiberal. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Revolution Business" because the other jacket/cover images in the series were so much more blah; I can't scan "Berserker Lord" and derive anything meaningful from it except I won't like the book; and "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" makes me think that Nielsen was channeling Stephan Martiniere, whose work I find unappealingly samey-samey Book Cover Smackdown! Berserker Lord (Chaosbound) vs. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms vs. The Revolution Business
  • With circumstances and your priorities changing, what's unappealing now could soon hold allure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bushnell's writing has similar deadpan timing, taking the depressing and unappealing and rendering it hilarious.
  • What's your most unappealing habit? The Sun
  • Tell us about your most unappealing habit. The Sun
  • There it comes sliding down the luggage ramp: flattened, tattered, stained, wonderfully unappealing.
  • Styles available from specialist retailers have tended to be unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the pain, suffering and fatalities that make war unappealing to the masses are removed, then so will be much of the moral inhibitions against it.
  • Usually, once the experts are on hand it is easy to put things right, however unappealing your unaided attempts at composting may seem.
  • This arms you to deflect deeply unappealing ideas and, more important, to convince certain crucial individuals to agree to yours. Times, Sunday Times
  • May was spared what must have seemed an unappealing match. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
  • Commercial repellents use animal products, such as putrescent egg solids, to make the plants unappealing to deer. The temperamental rose offers rewards in color, fragrance and luxuriance
  • My most unappealing habit is... kicking off suddenly and inexplicably. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is an unappealing prospect. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's something slightly unappealing about forcing your will onto the dog in this way just because you don't like his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • So why does his story seem so unappealing? Times, Sunday Times
  • was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess
  • And what can you possibly call Conservatism to appeal to a population who find Conservatism utterly unappealing? Times, Sunday Times
  • Meanwhile, adventurous styling elsewhere in the market began to make Volvos look unappealingly out of step and old-fashioned, in dire need of visual updating.
  • The characters and monsters are very plain, unappealing folk, partially because they suffer from the drab backwoods fashion of the late 1800s, partially because of their lack of detail.
  • The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.
  • Clinically preserved monuments with not a fern, blade of grass or piece of lichen in sight can be very unappealing.
  • Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike.
  • The room was painted in an unappealing shade of brown.
  • The sauce was tasty, as were the ingredients, save the ham, which had an unappealing flavour.
  • And I'm not sure why I find Mr KB so unappealing: after all, he had ‘Ice Ice Baby’ on cassingle, and I have Snow's ‘Informer’ on cassingle, along with ‘All For Love’ by Color Me Badd!
  • The team rejected traditional Biblical phrasing, figuring they would be unfamiliar or unappealing to the target audience.
  • But if it had been tedious and unappealing then that will not have mattered one jot to City, more a glowing endorsement of a job well done.
  • Self-assured as opposed to unappealingly cocksure, Evolution Flight would be a towering achievement based on any criteria you chose to elect.
  • And its buttery blood-orange sauce turned out to be unappealingly sweet, with none of the citrus tang that might have made the dish sing.
  • But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Is it possible to capture a reader with the tale of two unappealing, selfish and self-destructive characters?
  • She had been wealthy in Iran, and possibly found a marriage of convenience to a penniless student nurse unappealing.
  • We all have unappealing habits. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the insurance industry's formularies aren't going to be "unappealingly narrow," how are they going to weed out useless but pricey me-too drugs, the best way to hold down prices in the long run? Merrill Goozner: The Right Prescription
  • There's also an outdoor pool but it looked rather unappealing - cold and a bit grimy. Times, Sunday Times
  • But whereas we now also find the latter dated and their humour unappealing, Wodehouse remains in demand.
  • My most unappealing habit is wearing my Lycra cycling gear. The Sun
  • The streets, which were unpaved and unappealing even in daylight, were taken over by bands of wandering bandits and cutthroats after dark.
  • Unappealingly, everyday human decency is disdained. Times, Sunday Times
  • The prospect of having to do that all over again is pretty unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's wearing a deeply unappealing baseball hat.
  • The next day I was faced with two unappealing options: either go caving with a gammy knee, or tell Catherine her second caving trip (and first trip in her new gear) was off.
  • But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Fried murre eggs had a strange and unappealing appearance. Smithsonian
  • There was an unappealing film of slime on top of the pond.
  • • The insurance industry's formularies, however, are not "unappealingly narrow" because they "need to keep customers. Merrill Goozner: The Right Prescription
  • It is no wonder that so many people are unfit and overweight when their thoughts make exercise seem so unappealing. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
  • It is a scentless, unappealing botanical fraud sold by sharks to suckers.
  • The smell of a chocolate dessert came wafting from the kitchen and someone decided we had to order one to share even though the description of its cold foamy sauce accompaniment sounded unappealing.
  • In this story, as in many others in the collection, ambition is made more unappealing than the quiet expectation of failure.
  • But if the anti-drugs campaigners are priggish and authoritarian, the arguments of pro-drugs campaigners are often equally unappealing.
  • Other options seemed equally unappealing. WALKING THE BIBLE
  • Styles available from specialist retailers have tended to be unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Combined with his glumly parsimonious economic message, this social pessimism now makes him seem unappealingly bitter and recriminatory. Give the voters hope
  • But while its scope is admirable, the play has an unappealing didactic tone. Times, Sunday Times
  • So if you've realised how unappealing walking around in the cold is, then go get warm in Teddy Hall and acquaint yourself with a little Bernard Shaw.
  • As unappealing as such things are to me, it's more ... a fear of being choked, of drowing in viscous substances. Archive 2006-06-01
  • And although Heroin trips up on its own determined sleaziness, the album as a whole is a not-unappealing blend of suspenders, silliness and Siouxsie Sioux.
  • I don't think it would have been so popular if we hadn't got rid of the old Brownie uniform - those bobble hats and horrible belted dresses were impractical and unappealing.
  • We were quick to wrap towels around our exposed and suddenly unappealingly white stomachs before we stepped into flip-flops and headed for the pool. Twinsburg
  • After a fairly-unappealing first half from both sides, he obviously had a word with his men at the interval, and geed them up, because they were revitalised for the start of the second half.
  • My most unappealing habit is snacking. The Sun
  • It comes alive briefly, very briefly, when its unappealing heroes, who are reluctantly forced to work for the dole, are assigned to clean up road kill, with predictable results.
  • The room was painted in an unappealing shade of brown.
  • Your frightened jingoism is especially unappealing when it comes out in support of the burning death of civilians. Think Progress » The Truth About ThinkProgress’ White Phosphorus Coverage
  • Such a view also has the unappealing consequence that a life devoid of ambition is more likely to be meaningful than one full of ambition, and this seems counter-intuitive.
  • So unromantic, so banausic, so thoroughly unappealing, yet for all that imponderably heroic. Stephen Fry: The Great Stink of 2005
  • Recreational facilities and activities that once were appropriate for the unaccompanied draftee are unappealing to professional soldiers and their families.
  • The endemic nature of corruption in many emerging markets can lead investors to conclude that entering fast-growing economies like India and Brazil requires choosing between two unappealing options: accepting the indispensability of committing bribery and chance prosecution under statutes like the U.S. Even The Virtuous Can Thrive In Corrupt Countries
  • they have made the place as unappealing as possible
  • He found many of the villages of the Moselle region dirty and unappealing, but the countryside often attractive.
  • But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Do you find me so unappealing? Times, Sunday Times
  • Recruits to the cause were extracted from the so-called corvee (the conscripted labour force), which was made up by the fellahin (the peasantry), and though serving in the corvee was an unappealing activity, conscription into the army was even worse. Latest Articles
  • Though the calamari was served with a nicely spicy dipping sauce, the squid rings themselves were dry and chewy and generally unappealing.
  • Many find this idea unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, that pram-like hood is unappealing from the inside, and the car does flex a little over deep potholes.
  • the kitchen was unappealingly dirty
  • Even in the last couple of decades, Pamela has often been treated as an unadventurous or unappealing apprentice work - a stage that Richardson had to go through before he could get around to something worthwhile.
  • Unfortunately to the uninitiated, the tendency to oversalt has to be mitigated, as something that is still cooking will concentrate the flavor to an unappealing, oversalinated mess. Progenitor of Civilization
  • This is a deeply unappealing message for Europe's champions of fiscal probity to swallow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The prospect of studying for another five years was distinctly unappealing.
  • WHAT is the other's most unappealing habit? The Sun
  • What do you consider your most unappealing habit? Times, Sunday Times
  • You can call this the most seasonally unsympathetic killjoy of a column if you like, but over the past week did television not furnish the most unappealing crock of keech to masquerade as mass entertainment?
  • The church, in a lot of ways, is becoming unappealing to the younger members of the generations, in its traditionalism and ceremony.
  • The prospect of having to do that all over again is pretty unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rest of the issue seemed relatively unappealing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the years, as Boba had appeared in the "Expanded Universe" novels, the occasional reference had been made to his maskless visage being ugly, or unappealing, or...well, I forget the exact wording, but I don't recall him ever being explicitly described as "disfigured" until this novel. Archive 2006-09-10
  • There it comes sliding down the luggage ramp: flattened, tattered, stained, wonderfully unappealing.
  • Areas that are too wet with the turpenoid can be carefully blotted with a cotton swab, or an unappealing value can be lifted with a cotton swab dabbed in turpenoid.
  • He's wearing a deeply unappealing baseball hat.
  • It’s what the estate agent I rented it from euphemistically called a studio and what Mum and Dad unappealingly call a bedsit. Confetti Confidential
  • It is a giant, overwrought contrivance, a vehicle for communicating the filmmakers' murky and unappealing musings about society and human beings.
  • Part of the idea seems to be to present merchandise unappealingly.
  • I can report that the unappealing brown appearance was perfectly matched by the unappetising brown perfume.
  • But the characters are so flat and unappealing that I couldn't muster up a single empathetic cringe for 'em.
  • In an unappealingly self-pitying letter to Mollie two days later, Twain described the drunken sequence of the article, adding that he had suffered, “nothing but trouble & vexation” ever since. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Babysitting George, Celia Walden's new George Best-related memoir, often seems to be asking the question: is there anything more unappealing than a muck-raking tabloid journalist? Babysitting George by Celia Walden – review
  • The jobs tend to be eagerly sought, especially by women, whose other prospects for earning an income can be very unappealing.
  • ‘Smug’ and ‘arrogant’ are two of the more printable descriptions of its attitude and critics have also claimed it has an unappealing habit of conducting its affairs in secret.
  • I am not mathematically educated enough to critique his methods, but his public statements are unappealingly arrogant.
  • I can't help wondering how Wood could bring himself to read as much of such a big book, so grimly unappealing to him, as he seems to have done.
  • Unattractive economic conditions have made Euroland an unappealing venue for international investors for a long time now.
  • The females, for whom size apparently does matter, find the males puny and unappealing.

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