McLEAN, Va. — The campaign manager spoke about her candidate's race with a veteran's prepossessing self-assurance.
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Bruce, on the other hand, who seemed so timid and defenseless at 7, has blossomed into a ruddy, flaxen-curled and entirely prepossessing teenager.
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It's a term for "a young woman who is not very prepossessing," Ms. Gurley Brown told The New York Times the year the book was published.
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The principle of fan ownership seems to permeate pretty much everything at the QEII, which is another part of what makes it such a unique and prepossessing stadium.
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Neatly depicting a prepossessing waiter, Ben Houghton also occasionally tinkles away at a grand piano and lends his tenor voice to several Coward songs such as "If Love Were All."
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In an untitled work from 2015 of a curvaceous figure lying on their side, the topography of the human body resembles a nature scene, in the way it appears both alpine and prepossessing.
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Even the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton wasn't immune: "Truly prepossessing was our first view of the then mysterious island of Zanzibar," he wrote in "Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast" in 523.
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And yet, the globetrotter produces much of his work about an hour from the City of Light in his creative home-away-from-home in Saint-Luc, Normandy — prepossessing as much for its design as for its bucolic environs.
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Blacket was a prepossessing young man, handsome, well- mannered, elegantly dressed and with £600 in capital. He soon found suitable employment and the Blackets relinquished their plans to travel on to New Zealand.
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He was a man of short stature, measuring 4 feet 10½ inches tall, and described by Sir Walter Scott as "Little as a dwarf, keen eyed as a hawk and of very prepossessing manners—something like Tom Moore". Croker eventually devoted himself largely to the collection of ancient Irish poetry and Irish folklore.
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Later in 1981, Steiger won the Montréal World Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of white-bearded Orthodox rabbi Reb Saunders in Jeremy Kagan's The Chosen. Janet Maslin commented that Steiger's "slow, rolling delivery" was more "numbing than prepossessing", though a critic from Variety thought it an "exceptional performance as the somewhat tyrannical but loving patriarch".
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Solution algorithms for pressure-velocity coupling in steady flows are the standard prepossessing methods used to solve steady problems in computational fluid dynamics. The advection of the scalar Φ used to define flow depends on the magnitude and direction of the local velocity field. In general, however the velocity field is not known. These algorithms are hence employed to obtain the solution.
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She gave him a > grateful look, however, when he placed a chair for her in the corner of the > dock. After sitting down she gazed steadily, oblivious of the curious > spectators, at Inspector Fox, who entered the witness box to relate the > story of her arrest. > > Miss Byron is decidedly prepossessing in appearance. She wore a dark skirt > and jacket, with a high linen collar, and a sailor hat of white straw.
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She was > most ladylike and prepossessing in appearance. She brought with her a roll > of drawings, on which she had been admitted to the Art School of the > Corcoran Gallery in Washington. When she presented herself at that school, > she was refused a place there, on the ground of her color solely. She showed > me long letters from Frederick Douglas and others, protesting against such > an injustice; but the decision against her was not changed.
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For the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Vitale exhibited the video Patron. Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker wrote: "The most prepossessing is an energetic performance by...Vitale, who...harangues 'patrons' with colorfully worded...insults and commands. The provoked notion of contemporary art as an arena of sadomasochism is just cogent enough to chill, a trifle."Peter Schjeldahl "No Offense" March 8, 2010 In 2013, The Contemporary Austin's inaugural exhibition featured two solo installations, including Burned Bridge Junction and Common Crossings.
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Second-wave feminism would develop Erikson's point, as part of a wider critique of Freud and psychoanalysis. Freud's comment that "This was surely just the situation to call up distinct feelings of sexual excitement in a girl of fourteen", in reference to Dora being kissed by a "young man of prepossessing appearance",Sigmund Freud, Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, Standard Edition, Vol. VII, p. 28. was seen as revealing a crass insensitivity to the realities of adolescent female sexuality.
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Although the classical exterior of the church is not prepossessing, the interior is widely admired. Time Out New York calls it "gorgeous,""Reach out to a Higher Power," Time Out New York, April 1, 2009, p. 13 while the AIA Guide to NYC urges passersby to enter and admire a sanctuary that looks as though it was designed by a disciple of Sir Christopher Wren. The parish school opened in September 1907, staffed by the Sisters of Charity of New York.
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Nathaniel Wraxall wrote of Fitzpatrick, "His person, tall, manly, and extremely distinguished; set off by his manners, which, though lofty and assuming, were nevertheless elegant and prepossessing; – these endowments added grace to the attractions of his conversation. No man's society was more eagerly courted among the highest Orders, by persons of both sexes."Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of my Own Time, p. 347. Horace Walpole described Fitzpatrick as "an agreeable young man of parts", and mentioned his "genteel irony and badinage".
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Ernstone began her professional career in provincial theatres, playing the role of Geraldine in Buckstone's The Green Bushes at The Canterbury Music Hall, Lambeth in 1867. She made her London debut in 1868 at Covent Garden as Katherine in Katherine and Petruchio. In 1869, she played in Charles Smith Cheltnam's (1823–1912) Edendale at the opening of the Charing Cross Theatre. The Times wrote: "Among the novices are Miss Ernstone, from Manchester, a young lady of prepossessing appearance, who plays Ada Vandaleur... with much force".
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Alexander was an excellent horsemanIn the late 1830s, William IV of the United Kingdom wished to marry Alexander to his niece Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (and future Queen of the United Kingdom). Nothing came of this however, as Victoria remarked to her uncle Leopold I of Belgium, "The Netherlander boys are very plain and have a mixture of Kalmuck (Mongol) and Dutch in their faces, moreover they look heavy, dull, and frightened and are not at all prepossessing. So much for the Oranges, dear Uncle".Weintraub, p. 49.
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Walters was married December 21, 1876, to Miss May E. Wilkes, of Circleville, and they had seven children. Walters practiced law in the 1870s and 1880s. The habits of industry formed in his youth he carried with him in his mature years, and when he entered into a case he gave it time, labor and the best efforts of his well trained mind. Being a man of prepossessing appearance and easy manners, having a strong, logical mind and being a fluent and concise speaker, he early in his career took a position in the front rank of Ohio's Pickaway County bar.
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" Sven Birkerts, noting Fulton's "irrepressible inventiveness" and "startling juxtapositions," named this an "aesthetic of profusion." Critics praised these "compressed poems of great texture and inventiveness," as "prepossessing and formidable," "hardwon and solid." Palladium was admired for its "energy and passion for specificity," its "wit and unpredictable, wildly heterogenous combinations," the way "surface and substance, style and content, coexist and are often at odds with one another." Peter Stitt described the style of Palladium as having "so much texture, thanks to [Fulton's] images and to her use of words, and that texture places a palpable surface on the abstract construct of the poem.
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Alexander's handsome presence and frank bearing made him a favorite with the people, and they longed for the day when the house of the Maccabees should mount the throne instead of the half-Jew Herod. But, on the other hand, a certain degree of vanity and a spirit of vindictiveness, which marked him no less than his prepossessing qualities, rendered him extremely unpopular with the partisans of Herod, who had much to fear from a future King Alexander. Josephus was writing for a Roman audience, after a major rebellion and this may not genuine criticism. Salome repeatedly warned Herod of danger threatening him from Alexander and his brother Aristobulus.
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His appointment was challenged by Hawaiian historian and fellow Lahainaluna classmate Samuel Kamakau who regarded his rank of Kaukaualiʻi (low-ranking chief) as too inferior for him to sit as a noble. By the 1850s, however, the House of Nobles consisted mainly of Kaukaualiʻi. In addition to his legislative posts, he held the post of deputy governor of the Island of Hawaii under Governor William Pitt Leleiohoku I. In 1846, Chester Lyman met both the governor and the deputy governor, but only Kapeau left an impression on him: > He is a man of prepossessing appearance apparently about 35, & converses in > English with a good degree of fluency.
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The 2000 reprint of Saint Peter's Fair quotes a Sunday Times review: "A more attractive and prepossessing detective would be hard to find" Kirkus Reviews finds this novel authentic but not as clever as the first three. "Brother Cadfael returns in another 12th-century mystery—as stylishly authentic, though not quite as darkly inventive, as his previous three." They noted the "colorful, convincing details on the workings of a medieval fair" and concluded it was "a graceful and informative, if not particularly mysterious, case for Peters' engaging, herb-gardening monk." Publishers Weekly reviewed a 1991 audio book of this and the next novel in the series in one article, liking the historical setting more than the plots.
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On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act District slave owners, like Mills, were allowed to petition for compensation. Mills petitioned for compensation for eleven slaves, including Philip Reid. His description of Reid that he submitted with the Petition said that Reid was "aged 42 years, mullatto [sic] color, short in statue, in good health, not prepossessing in appearance but smart in mind, a good workman in a foundry…" Mills had claimed $1,500 for Reid, explaining that he had paid $1,200 for Reid in 1842 in Charleston, South Carolina. Mills said, that although Reid was a youth at that time, he had already demonstrated "evident talent for the business in which [Mills] was engaged"—his steel foundry. Mills asked $1500 for Reid, but received only $350.40.
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Otto Hermann Kahn in Berlin, 1931 In 1933, the smooth and affable Kahn successfully disarmed antagonism against members of the banking community during four days of testimony before the United States Senate's Pecora Commission hearings into the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Senate's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora wrote on page 293 in his 1939 memoir Wall Street Under Oath about Otto Kahn: "No suaver, more fluent, and more diplomatic advocate could be conceived. If anyone could succeed in presenting the customs and functions of the private bankers in a favorable and prepossessing light, it was he."Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time, By Theresa Mary Collins, page 293, Published by UNC Press, 2002 Kahn was a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of Rutgers College.
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Nikolaus Pevsner described the church as "one of the most interesting, and also one of the most puzzling in North Devon", mentioning its massive, apparently Norman, south tower; its lead-covered broach spire, similar to that at St Peter and St Paul at Barnstaple; and the nave which despite being 34 ft wide, has no aisles. Betjeman describes the church as "not very prepossessing but well worth visiting", and as having "a remarkably wide nave covered by a fine roof enriched with fifteenth century bosses". It also boasts an early Norman font, a Jacobean pulpit, and fourteenth-century carved wooden pews, which are listed. A series of 16th-century chestnut pew ends are of carved woodwork;Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South.
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Eccentric Characters of Newcastle by Henry Perlee Parker, c.1817 ‘Being a young man of good address and prepossessing appearance and developing a vigorous and taking style of painting figure subjects, Mr. Parker received from the people of Tyneside flattering encouragement and support.'Welford, Richard (1895) Men of Mark ‘Twixt Tyne and Tweed Vol. 3. London: Walter Scott Ltd. p. 249. Eccentric Characters of Newcastle (aka Hell’s Kitchen),At the time of the Laing Art Gallery's Henry Perlee Parker exhibition in 1969 the whereabouts of this painting was unknown; however, in 1986 it was sold by Sotheby’s and more recently (in 2004) by Cheffins, Cambridge. from about 1817, was one of Parker’s best-known early paintings. It shows fourteen ‘eccentrics’ – locally known characters, mainly paupers from the streets of the Quayside area of Newcastle – assembled in the Flying Horse drinking house. The painting was bought for 20 guineas by Charles John Brandling (1769–1826), an influential landowner and coal magnate.
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11 Magic Toys at the Prince of Wales's with Marie Wilton,The Daily News, 26 April 1867, p. 4 La Vivandière by W. S. Gilbert and the farces, Mr and Mrs White and The Rendezvous.The Era, 28 July 1867, p. 8; and 17 November 1867, p. 11 In pantomime she was "a very dashing and prepossessing Princess Eglantine" in a version of Valentine and Orson for the 1867 Christmas season,Pall Mall Gazette, 26 December 1867, p. 10 and she successfully took a travesti (male) role in Boucicault's The Flying Scud at the Holborn Theatre, playing Lord Woodbie,The Era, 19 January 1868, p. 10 followed by another trousers role, the valet Max, in Gilbert's burlesque, The Merry Zingara, a parody of The Bohemian Girl.Text of The Merry Zingara, The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 20 June 2009 In 1868 she joined the company of the Strand Theatre in the burlesque The Field of the Cloth of Gold and appeared with the company mainly in London but also on tour during the next four years.Liverpool Mercury, 1 September 1869, p.
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The lower-relief style of the secondary panels, and notably the purely graphic and unplastic rendering of clothing, accommodates a later dating of the work to around the middle of the 6th century. The work's combination of high-quality reliefs evokes another famous work of ivory sculpture of this era, the Throne of Maximian at Ravenna, datable to 545-556, and another product of a top-quality workshop, perhaps even the same one, in either Constantinople or Alexandria – this would make the triumphant emperor Justinian.Kitzinger, 94-97 Drawing of the equestrian statue of Justinian in the Augustaion by Nymphirios. The prepossessing position given in the composition to the figure of Christ blessing the emperor also suggests a Justinian date – it is comparable to a consular diptych of Justin from 540, the last known consular diptych before Justinian suppressed the consulship in 541, and the first to place images of Christ and of the imperial couple (Justinian and Theodora) in medallions below the portrait of the consul. Up until then the Christian presence on these diptychs had been limited to the symbol of the cross, like those framing the imperial portraits on the consular diptych of Clement in 513.
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