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"unglamorous" Definitions
  1. not attractive or exciting

386 Sentences With "unglamorous"

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Visitors to the Maldives take an unglamorous ferry between islands.
Visitors may have to take an unglamorous ferry between islands.
The startup's lead investor offered some admittedly unglamorous — but free!
We need to hear about all the gritty, unglamorous details.
But I quickly learned how unglamorous fashion P.R. actually is.
Hood By Air shows are traditionally held in unglamorous spaces.
SRS: It's kind of unglamorous, so it frees you up?
One is the unglamorous work of managing finances and paying suppliers.
The scale is human: fragile, unglamorous, bruised and still holding on.
But there are many unglamorous reasons behind Chinese tech companies' success.
Once upon a time, the White House Correspondents' Dinner was fairly unglamorous.
"Blackstone," Hulu Watch if you like bleak, unglamorous and distinctive ensemble shows.
Rob headed to Baltimore Avenue in Las Vegas, a decidedly unglamorous area.
This is a book interested in people not just unglamorous, but overlooked.
This most unglamorous of industrial metals has just burst into bullish flames.
Harper's still solidly in the unglamorous "figuring it out phase" of her life.
Now, it seems, the company is a little salty about that unglamorous reputation.
Her steely, unglamorous image (a confessed penchant for skirts notwithstanding) inspires young women.
It was all very unglamorous compared to how things get done these days.
But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
Though some of the trysts Poirier details are entertaining, many are deeply unglamorous.
He's confident but unglamorous, unflustered by the sling his left arm rests in.
But they also have the difficulty of attracting stars to unglamorous Oklahoma City.
As a legal procedural, "The Night Of" is richly detailed but profoundly unglamorous.
Something surprisingly unglamorous and gloriously analog: a love of physical cards and letters.
The job is difficult and unglamorous, like many jobs in the food industry.
I grew up in an unglamorous place on the frugal end of middle class.
Such unglamorous elements of rugby are not generally associated with the swashbuckling All Blacks.
Their lives were unglamorous yet comfortable, with a spacious home and trips to Florida.
But even though it's unglamorous on paper, an organization wouldn't function properly without PMs.
After using this, I feel as glamorous as [insert extremely unglamorous celebrity's name here].
Mr Trump prefers noisy fights to the grinding, unglamorous compromise that democratic governance requires.
The paintings are surprisingly unlike his movies, to my eye, because they are unglamorous.
Mick's life is comprised of all the hard, unglamorous campaigning that leads to change.
Unglamorous as this is, it may be the shape of faithfulness in our time.
It's an unglamorous tale, remote from the sweat and smoke and sirens of Stonewall.
And for many of those cybercriminals, hacking is as unglamorous as any other business.
It's a good time to appreciate the hard work and unglamorous elements of motherhood.
There have been injuries, doubts and plenty of unglamorous journeys in tennis's minor leagues.
Ruth Marcus, deputy editorial page editor: You talked about the unglamorous work of governing.
It's hard to think of a more unglamorous instrument in jazz than the tuba.
Going to the World Cup is really unglamorous for a lot of these players.
Sanitation and hygiene, unglamorous though they are, rank highly among development goals for good reason.
Even planners, who thrill to things like zoning and floor-area ratios, find it unglamorous.
But in many ways, the job is as unglamorous as any kind of self-employment.
Among the passengers were 22 players from Chapecoense, an unglamorous football team from southern Brazil.
His answer is unglamorous and undramatic, maybe, compared to a knee or a raised fist.
But unglamorous clubs have previously won the Premier League, only to revert to relative mediocrity.
In a popular, loud, dirty system there was plenty of unglamorous work to be done.
In capturing the two investigations, though, "Unsolved" is effective in an unglamorous, no-frills way.
He spent much of his time teaching, in the congenial but unglamorous University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Where we may go wrong is in valuing stealthily obtained information over unglamorous, commonly shared knowledge.
He was born in Salford, in 1957, a northern industrial town, as unglamorous as England gets.
But it also echoes her fundamental ambitions: to celebrate glamour and beauty, even in unglamorous times.
It's an unglamorous job with matriarchal overtones, which is why managers don't want to do it.
And yet this is the unglamorous reality hidden away inside the sausage factory of political change.
Heatherwick continued, "I went to a primary school in Wood Green"—an unglamorous North London neighborhood.
Being honest about the unglamorous, painful repercussions of modeling doesn't sound like it was easy, either.
Sil (Ellen Parker), a realtor who doesn't want unglamorous images circulating, isn't picking up her pen.
"There are so many organizations in this country where women do the unglamorous heavy lifting," says Watts.
Being a cable company is a great business, but it's boring and unglamorous, plus everyone hates you.
It felt goofy, too, that the star of these movies was so totally unglamorous in real life.
Her primary topic is quotidian family life, elevated as she trains a poetic eye on unglamorous inevitabilities.
Its creators say it's an unglamorous death, and they worked hard to make sure it wasn't gratuitous.
I lived the most unglamorous form of a bicoastal life for about two and a half years.
It was "boring and unglamorous," he says, but employers were willing to pay him a fairly steady salary.
For Whiston, today's spacewalk also involves a little bit of unfinished business, albeit of the rather unglamorous kind.
We would all rather cling to a romantic notion in preference to facing an unglamorous or dark truth.
The axe has fallen hard on the administrative jobs that are prevalent in unglamorous parts of the country.
TransferWise's rapid growth has been fueled by one of the world's most important, and most unglamorous, money markets.
Sprinting into CVS after work to grab a box of tampons and a $4 eyeliner feels pretty unglamorous.
Even an unglamorous item like Charmin toilet paper has over a million Facebook fans and 70,000 Twitter followers.
But to understand these disinvitation attempts, we need to understand the unglamorous process by which speakers get invited.
Beyoncé, in multiple hairstyles and fashions, is shown both alluring and unglamorous: hard-faced, unhappy, sweaty, harshly lit.
It shows not only the plays themselves, but the unglamorous lives of those in theatre at the time.
Her work is concerned with repetitive daily rituals, unremarkable lives, low-paying jobs, backwater towns, and unglamorous rooms.
"This is a different way of thinking about subspecies -- the (previously!) unglamorous units of evolutionary biology," she said.
But that flood has yet to materialize in Senate races, which many recruits consider costly, exhausting and unglamorous.
The call center has long been an important, if decidedly unglamorous, corner of the cultural fund-raising world.
The downstairs lobby of the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side is a gray, unglamorous space.
It provides a more authentic look at the insular, messy, upsetting, and unglamorous world media professionals actually inhabit.
After a disastrous evaluation ceremony, Arianwyn is sent to the far-flung town of Lull — an unglamorous assignment.
She was about the hard, unglamorous work of building relationships, mobilizing communities, developing campaigns and creating new organizers.
She talked about her black belt in karate, her unglamorous but arduous work on a farm with horses.
It's boring and unglamorous, much like Hillary Clinton's presentation of her own candidacy was often accused of being.
The larger comet — with the equally unglamorous name of 252P — is reaching its closest distance today, March 21.
He wants to focus on the unglamorous but less risky business of slogging through the 12 annual appropriations bills.
One case cited by Pitchbook is the 2012 buyout and subsequent IPO of unglamorous consumer credit data company TransUnion.
The priority should be unglamorous maintenance work, which has been neglected even as wasteful new projects have gone ahead.
Or they can use it for the unglamorous, less politically rewarding work of dealing with the causes of crime.
Even as unglamorous an item as Charmin toilet paper has over a million Facebook fans and 70,000 Twitter followers.
As unglamorous as scooping ice cream was, Obama said it gave him a chance to contribute to his community.
Unless you have the funds to live it up on premier class, commercial flying is often an unglamorous activity.
But a clean balance sheet, prospects in China and a resolutely unglamorous share price suggest an alluring makeover target.
In another rebuke of my style, a writer called me the "unglamorous Kennedy," clearly pushing substance to the side.
Some joked that the design was reminiscent of unglamorous objects, from stoves and spiders to bowling balls and ... Pikachu.
Then she compared herself to the dogged, unglamorous cricket player Geoffrey Boycott, known for reliably and heavily scoring runs.
Heads bent over their desktop computers, they began the unglamorous work of poring through it, looking for an assassin.
The signal system is the invisible, unglamorous backbone of the subway, controlling when trains can move down the tracks.
He was content to do the unglamorous work of negotiating and number crunching, of policy rather than personal profile.
The signal system is the hidden, unglamorous backbone of the subway, controlling when trains can move down the tracks.
"Happy Valley," which is set in an unglamorous West Yorkshire pocked with drugs and unemployment, thinks locally, not globally.
LEAD - IMPORT SURGE Among the traditional industrial metals, the big Chinese trade surprise this year has been unglamorous lead.
This might sound unglamorous, but it's actually as bouncy a springboard as there is into the French ruling class.
Trump, who often talks about whether someone "looks the part," has made a point of calling out Pompeo's unglamorous presence.
But long before the trailers and movie stars arrive on set, parking production assistants carry out their decidedly unglamorous task.
If there was no scandal brewing in the series' future, it seems unlikely this fairly unglamorous shot would be necessary.
The process was unglamorous, tedious and entirely precarious, but the final payoff was visually stunning and worth every single minute.
Peace Corps volunteers are doing important, unglamorous work that's consistently underappreciated – from health to education, agriculture, the environment and more.
Advocates have termed these targeted policy proposals "science-based commitments and policies," an unglamorous name for an otherwise exciting development.
Armstrong is told he has been selected to head the Apollo 11 mission in the unglamorous setting of his work's toilet.
It's starting to look like the only thing Gigi Hadid can't do is make us feel better about our unglamorous lives.
Kelly Osbourne may be America's purple-haired style guru, but she's also received unglamorous attention for her drug and alcohol abuse.
Yet in the past year it has in unglamorous parts of the country, such as the Isle of Wight and Blackpool.
To pry young, working-class voters away from Trump, she'll need to champion a host of unglamorous, brass-tacks economic issues.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says his unglamorous first job scooping ice cream taught him valuable lessons about responsibility and hard work.
In his work as Grandmondo Miniatures, Bortholuzzi creates tiny, intricate and thoroughly unglamorous scenes that could be plucked from everyday life.
Unglamorous motherhood is something great shows like Jane the Virgin, Big Little Lies, and Girls have put great effort into uncovering.
The result is that unglamorous items such as braces and artificial limbs are among the most-needed devices to assist lives.
Anybody curious about the inner workings of unglamorous behemoths like Amazon or the ailing Barnes & Noble will have to look elsewhere.
M.T.A. officials say the improvement is due to a lot of unglamorous work New Yorkers may not even be aware of.
In the 1950s, it developed into a distinctly unglamorous suburb dotted with bungalows, similar to dozens of others around the country.
Leonard Cohen lives on the second floor of a modest house in Mid-Wilshire, a diverse, unglamorous precinct of Los Angeles.
As the eldest daughter of perpetual screw-up parents, Fiona found herself in the unglamorous position of holding her dysfunctional family together.
He lived an unglamorous life in Hull (where he was university librarian) while his great friend Kingsley Amis enjoyed the high-life.
Churning out untold numbers of low-cost chips to turn dumb objects into smart ones will be a big, if unglamorous, business.
The three bedroom, three bathroom home is going for $1.299 million, which might sound like a fortune, judging by its unglamorous exterior.
Industry experts note that in the early days of tech it was mostly women who held the then-unglamorous jobs of coding.
BAMTech can handle credit cards and authentication and subscriptions and all of the other unglamorous aspects that make streaming services actually run.
He told me why he chose to get into the unglamorous business of being a TPA rather than being a health insurer.
His unglamorous life of an aspiring entrepreneur included taking no vacation time for seven years and stealing towels from the Holiday Inn.
Despite the bill's unglamorous death in the Senate, its passage in the House is a major step forward for low-income families.
Instead she says the site's defining characteristics are two rather unglamorous assets that have carried the brand this far: perseverance and consistency.
They are in many ways the planet's unglamorous, unsung heroes -- yet by one estimate wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests.
Thank you for fully understanding the awesome, unglamorous, and deeply humbling responsibilities of the presidency — and offering us four years of yourself anyway.
It is happy to celebrate "freedom" so long as it does not cross over into the unpleasant, unglamorous realities of being a woman.
I began exercising regularly — yoga and a very unglamorous spin class — at a university gym whose proximity steamrolled any excuse to not go.
She and Pyle both seem grateful to have been involved in a film that exposes the unglamorous side of being a working musician.
And while viral moments have earned her national attention, Hirono's colleagues also credit her with digging into unglamorous issues such as patents. Sen.
Yet the unglamorous metal has been the worst performer this year among the core base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange (LME).
This installation was especially meant to conjure a Chinatown bus stop, with its mismatched tiles, hanging red lanterns and unglamorous folding chair setup.
There is a nakedness to her face, as if now that she is unrecognizably unglamorous, we can finally see what she looks like.
In keeping with that range, Abbi and Ilana, in their unglamorous hedonism and chronic directionlessness, are also allowed to be big, fat losers.
But they were less sure about judging the quality of furnaces, septic systems, roofs and other unglamorous but critical components of a house.
First, in 1974, was General Felt Industries, a major producer of carpet padding — an unglamorous but lucrative business that served as their springboard.
Entrenched conservative values will clash this year with a liberal fervor that often plays out at the local level, in grinding, unglamorous work.
If current political shenanigans haven't already invigorated your respect for unglamorous gumshoe reporting, then "Water & Power: A California Heist" should do the trick.
Inquiry into unusual genes in unglamorous bacteria before we even knew the gene-altering power they contained, laid the foundation for CRISPR technology.
By the numbers: Though often considered unglamorous and overlooked by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, these industrial markets are among the largest in the world.
On the other, now that the LiPlay gives you the power of review, will you ever print an authentic but unglamorous photo ever again?
Adapted by "Transparent" creator Jill Soloway, "I Love Dick" shares several qualities with that series, including its stark and decidedly unglamorous approach to sex.
"A lot of unglamorous things that are under the skin that don't make for big sexy car reveals, but are very important," Taylor says.
Even the winners could use more beat or beef—sonically I prefer the rockish Unglamorous to Dave Cobb's Chris Stapleton-certified good taste here.
The Coens offer Mannix's day-to-day activities in the spirit of ironically light-hearted farce—one that obscures a dismal and unglamorous reality.
Clinton's early work as a litigator reveals how unglamorous it often was (a lawsuit on rat parts in a can of pork and beans).
Lorelai Gilmore, a Harvard-bound debutante, has a kid at 16 and flees her upper-class family for an unglamorous job at an inn.
" Aaron R. Hanlon is an assistant professor at Colby College and well positioned to write about the "unglamorous process by which speakers get invited.
Why the Russian government might care about these unglamorous House races is a source of bafflement for some of the lawmakers who were targeted.
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis Cities like Denver could be homes for useful, if unglamorous, tech companies—in other words, Main Street businesses with code.
And as in the domestic arena, Obama has sometimes been criticized for not following up a big speech with the unglamorous work of implementing policy.
Throughout his time in office, Mr Trump has preferred fighting public battles on immigration and much else to the unglamorous work of compromise and governance.
But if there's one thing to learn from everything the buzzed-about editor has to offer, it's that there's an unglamorous side to fashion, too.
Photo: Jeff Camaratti/Getty Images (Gizmodo)The unglamorous and grimy research done by urban entomologists like DeVries highlights the remarkable, annoying resilience of these pests.
While her posts typically promote the positive side of nursing a child, Jameson often speaks to the challenges and unglamorous moments that mothers face too.
Instead, the museum settled on an unglamorous alternative: repaint the white walls of the gallery an oatmeal color to reduce contrast and install new lighting.
There's something refreshing about how Drunk History takes unglamorous comics who are game to look ridiculous and lets them playact as our most sacred cows.
Signature had existed for less than two decades, and compared with some of its New York rivals, it was a small player occupying unglamorous niches.
When a farmer waved at me from inside a beat-up pickup, I thought about the comfort of sturdy, unglamorous things, my marriage among them.
It was an unglamorous life—he lived in run-down Karachi neighborhoods, where his roommates included gangsters and heroin addicts—but he loved the work.
And then infrastructure, I always described as the unglamorous work of governing, Charles, but it's what supports everything else, and it's roads, rails, bridges, yes.
His movie has amusing thumbnail sketches of drivers and auto-tinkerers, regular Joes who work at unglamorous day jobs when not pursuing high-speed glory.
Other favorites: Tumblr, Trojan Room Coffee Pot The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the unglamorous string of code upon which this entire web edifice is built.
The big picture: It's common for tech companies to rely on a large army of contractors for work that's unglamorous or unrelated to their core focus.
While her posts typically promote the positive side of nursing a child, the star often speaks to the challenges and unglamorous moments that mothers face too.
So Microsoft keeps trying to boost its consumer profile, with little success, while the company's revenues and profits come disproportionately from lucrative but unglamorous business customers.
Last season on Outlander, time traveling Claire (Caitriona Balfe), desperate to free her husband from prison, has a quick, unglamorous screw with the King of France.
This is rags-to-riches, "Rocky" and the impossible dream for an unglamorous city in the middle of England best known for having buried Richard III.
In particular, Winfrey emphasized the need for grads to work hard in their first jobs, no matter how unglamorous their post-graduate employment situation might be.
The official described the internal debate as "an extremely unglamorous process," but insisted it was a high priority for Mr. Trump that ultimately would be accomplished.
It is instead the unglamorous and complex job of making some subset of 435 individual political entrepreneurs come together in the name of a political party.
In the late nineteen-sixties, I lived in a duplex in an unglamorous corner of East Hollywood, California, sleeping in a room alongside my Guatemalan parents.
I'd love to say that's the case, but there's also the nitty-gritty work, like writing explosion results, and other unglamorous tasks, like doing literature reviews.
Her unglamorous tasks included fetching grapefruit juice and raisin bread for Robert B. Zoellick, who later hired her as a special assistant in the Bush White House.
Clinton's campaign said on Wednesday that it would ring in election night at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the unglamorous glass fortress on Manhattan's West Side.
He is likened at one point to Raymond Chandler, another writer who explored the hidden, unglamorous corners of a city too often besotted by its own hype.
This unglamorous yet needed element of democracy is getting harder to come by, because of the obscene amount of money flooding political campaigns and skewing the news.
Wouldn't it be wild if we were suddenly allowed to be unpretty, unglamorous, not-rich — in short, imperfect — and still be deemed interesting enough to read about?
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For decades, Silicon Valley thought of polysilicon in much the same way that bakers think of flour: an essential yet unglamorous ingredient that can be wasted without regret.
" Joked Flannery, who played Meredith Palmer on the NBC comedy: "I had nine seasons of the most unglamorous character on TV, so we're going in a different direction.
Refinery29 talked with Audrey about the investigation, the unglamorous realities of being a small business owner, and what she would be doing if she wasn't running The Wing.
The super-key point: Trump cares primarily about how people perform on TV. He's totally uninterested in the behind-the-scenes, unglamorous planning work of a comms director.
"Coming to America" finds the brothers in a decidedly unglamorous setting for an amusing cameo in which they benefit from the casual largess of Mr. Murphy's African prince.
Today, F22's season finale is staged amid the gaudy glitz of Abu Dhabi, but in '21.2 it was held at a wholly unglamorous venue: Circuito de Jerez.
Even Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie, as unglamorous a figure as one could imagine, took cues from the Thin White Duke, slipping from role to role on successive albums.
The Australian influencer made global headlines last year when she reedited captions on her Instagram photos, revealing the unglamorous reality of trying to live a glamorous Instagram life.
The contextualizing narratives take a more direct approach to language, establishing a stable speaker who recounts in near-confessional fashion the unglamorous life of a small-press poet.
Too often, these voices seem more interested in promoting their own celebrity than putting in the unglamorous, difficult work necessary to bridge ideological and cultural differences women face.
Ivan Albright represents a deeply transcendent, even Platonic, idea of the soul, although one could be forgiven for missing it among the mercilessly unglamorous bodies of his figures.
Against all odds, the unglamorous, top-secret government facility known as Area 51, located in the remote Nevada desert, has become the hottest weekend getaway of the fall.
Securing a supply chain, manufacturing on time and on budget, shipping devices, and establishing distribution channels are the unglamorous tasks that ultimately make the substance of a hardware company.
It has the unglamorous title of CJ791 and measures in at 34 inches diagonally, with a 21:9 aspect ratio, 3440 x 1440 resolution, and a 4ms response time.
" Toward the end of the exhibition, the audio guide presents Catherine's unglamorous demise in 1796: "A lady-in-waiting found her in the toilet, lying on the floor unconscious.
" Isabel was interested in a gentler kind of Taylorism, one that made "every worker feel as if he was needed somewhere, doing something, no matter how unglamorous the task.
But given that DFS is probably best known as a quick-stop airport outlet, albeit the most glamorous of a mostly unglamorous bunch, success is by no means guaranteed.
From the countinghouses of industrial England to the skyscrapers of 2000s Manhattan, offices were mostly uninspiring places designed to maximize space, often with row upon row of unglamorous desks.
He was far enough removed from his professional playing days that he felt he could happily recede into the background and do the unglamorous work to help García shine.
The 5-year-old startup helps businesses take care of crucial but unglamorous office needs, such as keeping track of cleaning and office supplies, requesting handymen and scheduling cleanings.
We'll be packing our gym bag with deodorant, dry shampoo, and a classic red lippie — if only to channel the queen of cool herself while getting in our unglamorous squats.
Mr Singh has a theatrical detective's hat and dark glasses, but spends much of his time on the unglamorous task of checking out prospective marriage partners on behalf of parents.
Ackman launched the ADP proxy contest as an underdog, taking aim at a company engaged in the unglamorous business of providing human resources technology and largely backed by Wall Street.
His career path is well known, taking him to unglamorous leagues in Lebanon and China, stints in the N.B.A. Development League and even getting cut from teams at that level.
Are the unglamorous, tedious approaches to rounding up votes as powerful as the booming voice of a celebrity with hours of free television time and millions of rapt Twitter followers?
Like the residents of Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, St. Paul and Dallas, we are finding ways to pick up the pieces and do the unglamorous work of fixing the underlying problems.
With no basement, attic or spare room, unglamorous documents have no home and can end up stacked in plain sight in utilitarian boxes, unattractive reminders of the bureaucracy of life.
When I returned to the website for One57 this week, I noticed that it now mentions Arche, the entirely unglamorous maker of flexible shoes, which are easily purchased on Zappos.
Kate is trying to persuade a newly elected representative from Texas, Sydney Millsap (Eisa Davis), to support legislation that will benefit a rather unglamorous client, the American Podiatric Medical Association.
I do have one unglamorous, poorly framed shot of a dish of grilled octopus at a simple seaside taverna where I spent an unplanned afternoon talking with the charming owner.
And with the sudden rush to that long and unglamorous road's last exit, the lesson has an addendum: don't be surprised if the fruits of your labor also bear inconvenience.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads From its start, Parasite is an excruciatingly on-point depiction of hustle, in terms far too unglamorous to ever attach a hashtag to the idea.
In November of 2015, Wink sold to the component manufacturer Flex (formerly known as Flextronics), for $15 million, an unglamorous transition that struck many as a last-ditch bid for survival.
Though readers, critics, and especially biographers have long romanticized the discovery of caches of personal effects in the homes of writers, the ins-and-outs of their unearthing are decidedly unglamorous.
In contrast, Ella is a young woman, knocking on thirty, who spends months taking care of Jill—a thankless, arduous task that could not be more unglamorous, self-effacing, and heartfelt.
From London to Rome, the European Union over the past decade has served as a useful punching bag, wheeled out to unite domestic voters against a conveniently opaque and unglamorous bogeyman.
Where other such funds seek to earn returns on sovereign wealth, Mr. Dmitriev's Russian Direct Investment Fund seeks outside investments, often from foreign governments, for unglamorous infrastructure projects inside of Russia.
On long days and late nights in unglamorous cities, our version of fun was walking to the nearest strip mall, or cooking mac and cheese in our Extended Stay America kitchenette.
He urges fellow liberals to focus on "the hard and unglamorous task of persuading people very different from themselves to join a common effort," then proceeds to insult his own audience.
History doesn't much record the unglamorous and often excruciating work of moving sprinkler pipe, digging ditch, chopping hay or keeping a broken-down feed truck running for just one more year.
But a different sort of condescension has replaced the old one: selling mildly glamorous versions of the old unglamorous garments, and passing it off as an achievement all the way around.
Word of mouth sent a steady flow of clients, amateur and professional, hoping to break into the unglamorous but financially rewarding arenas of television advertising, soap operas and voice-over work.
Honestly, customer care is the unglamorous stuff that doesn't spark much hype or attention before the launch of a new device, but it certainly matters over the full course of owning one.
Mr López Obrador holds a deep, sincere concern for the poor, but he tends to favour bringing change through the example of his own personal magnetism instead of slow, unglamorous institution-building.
Well she had been doing movies and plays and playing unglamorous things, and she hadn't been dressed up in these funny outfits and she kind of missed it because she liked it.
This marks rather an unglamorous start for the era of 7nm graphics chips, but it does bring us a little closer to seeing it show up in desktop systems we can buy.
The country wants to recruit more cyber specialists and seems painfully aware that the work can be seen as unglamorous because workers aren't allowed to talk about it for national security reasons.
She goes from unglamorous arbiter of order—remember the scene from the first movie where her arms have the stretch under the table because she's trying to keep the kids from fighting?
Even so, the stock trades at an unglamorous 12 times forward earnings, less than Sony's own two-year average and well below the 16 times multiple commanded by video games rival Nintendo.
The slow, unglamorous work of unknotting ourselves from fear is something we all have to work towards: through electoral politics, of course, and involvement in the great civic project of this nation.
"The studio didn't even want me to test Sissy," Mr. De Palma said of Ms. Spacek, who had come to audition with Vaseline smeared in her hair to look greasy and unglamorous.
"More and more of our customers are in old-fashioned, even unglamorous, businesses like stormwater management, industrial equipment, shipping or monitoring any number of compressors, pumps and valves," he said in remarks.
" Comparing the unglamorous business of crafting a foreign policy to sausage-making, Rye added that for Trump, the test is that "it's about knowing what to put in the sausage as well.
He dresses the part of an award-winning journalist — at least the kind in the Oscar-winning best picture Spotlight, which got attention for the unglamorous attire of the reporters and editors.
She's the woman who refused to stop talking about her mental illness, her addictions, her age, and all the other unglamorous things that Hollywood likes to pretend never happens to its starlets.
At 6-foot-7, 244 pounds, Boyle can help a team in unglamorous ways, including killing penalties, winning face-offs in the defensive zone and jousting with defensemen for power-play rebounds.
And I think everyone will be surprised that despite the increase of mass shootings and everyday violence, committed citizens are doing the quiet, unglamorous work behind the scenes and changing the landscape.
Born in Ghana and raised in Ladbroke Grove, an unglamorous neighborhood in west London, Mr. Enninful was discovered in 1989 on the Hammersmith and City Line by the fashion stylist Simon Foxton.
For most of the past eight years, it was hard for regular guys (and girls) to earn a living even if they were willing to do unglamorous work like installing microwave ovens.
Historically, the custody business – an essential, if unglamorous function of the investing world – has relied on humans using antiquated technology like faxes to confirm trades and assign net asset values to mutual funds.
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In watching it, I was thinking, this is so unglamorous for this character who can be so shallow and have so the wrong priorities, but this is such a nice moment for her.
Nest, a digital device maker Google bought for $3.2 billion in 2014, drew comparisons to Apple with its innovative approach to bringing unglamorous household devices like thermostats into sync with a digital world.
Salesforce's main products are for customer relationship management, or C.R.M., unglamorous tools that are nevertheless critical for helping businesses where it counts: by managing sales leads and client interactions that bring in revenue.
A decade ago, after identifying a problem, Warren set about doing the unglamorous work of outlining a solution, building a political coalition to support it, and selling it to the public at large.
Chang-Diaz said the Massachusetts bill is in the "unglamorous middle of the legislative process," but she is optimistic about the momentum evidenced by the bill's passage in the state Senate in March.
For seasons, he has shown quietly, at unglamorous, early-morning presentations at Comme des Garçons' showroom, to a handful of enraptured editors and retailers who knew enough to seek him off the grid.
Besides, tracking quantity is slow, tedious and unglamorous work: setting and checking traps, waiting years or decades for your data to be meaningful, grappling with blunt baseline questions instead of more sophisticated ones.
The 21st Century Cures Act contains unglamorous but effective bipartisan solutions that will help patients now and in the future by giving them better information and providing transparency into the expanded access process.
They were part of a larger movement, the Chicago Imagists, whose graphic, irreverent art drew on pop culture and reflected an absurdist sense of humor and an often unglamorous interest in the body.
Goldman is moving into an unglamorous part of banking Goldman Sachs is quietly building out a business in a humdrum area of the market that helps big corporations manage and move their money.
On another unglamorous occasion, the home they were making over was so far from Chicago that rather than return to the city for the night, Berkus and an Oprah producer slept in his car.
It's one thing to express your fury online, the show argues, and another thing entirely to roll up your sleeves, dig in your heels, and do the unglamorous practical work of making real change.
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Here were people invested in the unglamorous work of coalition building — activists on the left who had been around before Mr. Sanders announced his presidential campaign, and who will stay involved long after November.
You could tell she'd been to countless organizing meetings like this one before, in other poorly air-conditioned rooms, doing the unglamorous work of coalition building that often falls to women of the movement.
She has an unglamorous job in the garnish department of a pâté factory, reads the feminist author Marilyn French on the bus ride home and watches quiz shows in her passable but plain apartment.
There's a grain of truth in that thinking, but the reality is that the future of work will also include a lot of low-skilled, unglamorous service jobs, just like the one Angelica does.
The pair had flamed out in London, she as an actress, he as a sales clerk at Topshop, and were in the middle of five dispiriting years writing scripts and shuffling through unglamorous jobs.
It might have been the biggest case in the city, but routine, unglamorous tasks were to be done, like sifting through traffic tickets issued near where Ms. Moskowitz and Mr. Violante had been shot.
For years, advocates have criticized Mr. Cuomo's uneven leadership of the transit system, with a focus on splashy projects like the Second Avenue subway over the unglamorous nuts and bolts of running the system.
When lawmakers have to raise money to stay above water and face unrelenting special interest pressure, it should come as little surprise that there's not much time left for the unglamorous business of governing.
But writing a dissertation is dull, solitary, deeply unglamorous work, and when a producer emailed me to ask if I'd be in a documentary about "the business of celebrity," I jumped at the chance.
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Unglamorous in essence, often constructed of rubber and plastic, and costing just a couple bucks (unless you're springing for an exorbitant designer version or this $18K pair), they're ideal for poolside wear or sandy situations.
Such devices seem downright gimmicky after taking in the simple, unfussy, but vivid and revelatory body of work that could serve as a visual lexicon for the unglamorous, sometimes devastating truths of the American Century.
Those who step up and offer to help with unglamorous tasks at work are more likely to be appreciated and respected by their colleagues, according to financial expert and former CNBC television host Suze Orman.
There is a whole unglamorous casserole of things United will have to do to get back on track: investigations, terminations, procedural changes, litigation settlements, rebates and promotions – and the good old-fashioned passage of time.
"If I Die Tonight," the video for which arrived on YouTube last month, uses the imagery of Japan's yakuza movies: steel-gray skies, unglamorous executions, a body tied up in the trunk of a car.
That is the unglamorous designation for their idyllic nest — a cabana facing the family pool at the Silver Gull Beach Club, an oceanfront summer colony near the western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.
The book's protagonist is Nick Guest, a graduate student from a solid if unglamorous middle-class background who is lodging with the family of his Oxford friend Toby Fedden, the object of an unvoiced crush.
Ms. Coppel, who is 37, runs Atelier Melissa Coppel, a small chocolate school in an unglamorous strip mall in western Las Vegas, that shares the parking lot with an orthodontics office and a law firm.
As attacks on the rule of law become more frequent and intense, the public has rekindled its often dormant affection for public-interest lawyers — endearingly unglamorous defenders of principle over politics, of rules over ruffianism.
It's funny to find celebrities on Venmo precisely because you wouldn't expect them to be there, and it's the kind of app that we use for unglamorous and petty things like splitting cab fare or drinks.
On paper, the CBO is a number-crunching agency with the unglamorous task of helping members of Congress estimate just how much their fun-sounding new bills would actually cost, and writing reports on federal spending.
Wealthy or stylish moms can sell ads and products by trading on their appearance and their aspirational — or perfectly imperfect — lifestyle, but what does an ordinary, unglamorous woman have that the public will want to buy?
An unglamorous but inexpensive and fuel-efficient hatchback sedan, the Suzuki Altos were offered to highly rated Uber drivers with financing by Stanbic, a Kenyan bank, that allows them to own the vehicle in three years.
Between 2010 and 103, while the tech world was still catching up to the idea of native apps, Pixite built and sold a variety of unglamorous photo-viewing and uploading tools for Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox.
While the dark farce may also merit a "D" for execution, it's still worth watching for its unglamorous depiction of corrupt wealth – and for having the guts to implicate the entertainment-industrial complex in the mess.
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Before Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuits as a priest, became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and then Cardinal, and eventually won the papal crown — thereby becoming Pope Francis — he held a number of unglamorous jobs.
And he was a political activist since his school days, working in a series of unglamorous local organizing jobs on Long Island before a black man's shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered the Black Lives Matter movement.
The brand has no presence on social media, and their first lookbook — which stars the half-Chilean and half-English indie actor Cosme Castro — includes unglamorous behind-the-scenes images rather than anything posed or polished.
Recent sartorial trends — ruffled dresses made with modest cuts that cover arms, chest and legs in patterned, decidedly unglamorous-looking fabrics — have been said to evoke a life on the homestead from a more bucolic era.
Intentionally or not, Maia's long and unglamorous road to a title shot has a simple lesson: your win streak better stretch out if you aren't opening holes in people's heads and talking shit like a maniac.
He promptly signed with the team for a $22016,22022 bonus—exactly the amount assigned to the slot by Major League Baseball—and was thereafter dropped into the unremittingly unglamorous world of the rookie-ball Gulf Coast League.
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AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES: THE WORK OF ROSAMOND PURCELL Molly Bernstein directed this documentary about Ms. Purcell, a photographer and writer who uses unglamorous natural objects (bones, feathers, leaves) and old found objects in her photocollages.
In the actual studio, an unglamorous work room where more recent acts like U21 and Bonnie Raitt have recorded, guides invite tour-goers to pose holding the original Shure 275 microphone used by Elvis and other legends.
An archetypally unglamorous expert — a statistician in the federal bureaucracy — was describing how he tried to keep the faith of the government's constitutional mission while Bannon and Kobach had his boss's ear and were secretly undermining it.
In Onomichi, managing the local baseball team may seem like an unglamorous way to pass some time, but it unlocks access to a local bar where Kiryu's only goal is to fit in with and befriend the regulars.
He quit a job with McKinsey to seek election in unglamorous South Bend—a city of 100,000 best known for a Studebaker car factory that closed half a century ago—and served as a naval reserve in Afghanistan.
After dealing with a series of terrifyingly dumb iOS and macOS bugs in 2017, Apple took a rebuilding year, focusing on unglamorous stability improvements for Mojave and iOS 12 rather than its usual array of flashy new features.
Ms. Bakst and Mr. Masnyj bring attention to meticulous placements and replacements (of body parts, of objects); Mr. Cabrillos offers a more lovingly haphazard look at the body in relation to inanimate things, specifically two unglamorous beige carpets.
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His marriage to Molly feels increasingly unglamorous, and even a trip to the Toronto Zoo ends in the death of one of his daughters' favorite primates, prompting Prin to come clean to his kids about his cancer diagnosis.
The protections I'm talking about mainly go by the unglamorous name of "net neutrality" — a wonky term that simply refers to your right to access the information you want via the internet, without your service provider playing favorites.
The show, which won a BAFTA (essentially the British Emmy) for Best Drama Series, follows the adventures of a group of young offenders who get struck by lightning while performing court-mandated community service and develop astonishingly unglamorous superpowers.
Every year, millions of kids wave their parents goodbye and head off to one of the country's summer sleepaway camps, an unglamorous, exciting place where growing up without the watchful eyes of Mom and Dad becomes a common bond.
Like most homeowners, she decorated the public spaces of her new house first, and the master bedroom was given the unglamorous last place on the list of rooms to redo, right next to the green linoleum-clad guest bath.
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In some ways, Roem's campaign is wholly ordinary, even mundane—she's campaigned heavily on the promise of reducing rush hour traffic on Route 28, touting a notably unglamorous but highly practical infrastructure plan—but in others, it's quite extraordinary.
Unglamorous and at times disheartening for those involved, this is the sharp end of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's campaign to boycott an election he says amounts to the rigged reappointment of Putin, whom he likens to an autocratic Tsar.
When the boys all, by mutual silent agreement, begin the unglamorous work of helping Beverly scrub the bathroom clean, they're absorbing one of the film's most powerful messages: Supporting women is necessary work that makes the entire community stronger.
In Paddy Considine's "Tyrannosaur," she played a meekly religious, abused wife; in "Fleabag" a hilariously poisonous stepmother; in "Run," a tough-as-nails inner city mother; in "Broadchurch" she was an often tearful, often irritable, willfully unglamorous police officer.
The Cuomo administration contends that Mr. de Blasio is more interested in his own signature proposals, like a new citywide ferry system and a streetcar between Brooklyn and Queens, than in the unglamorous business of keeping the subway running.
Yeah, the hole-digging scene is an obvious metaphor, but it's also emblematic of The Americans' slavish attention to detail and commitment to showing exactly how much difficult, unglamorous work and patience goes into what Philip and Elizabeth do.
Before oil prices tumbled, rapid expansion of its oil sands industry had made labor shortages the order of the day, and workers with little or no training poured into the province for high-paying, if tough and unglamorous, work.
Unprecedented in its depiction of the life of a spy as an unglamorous mess, Marathon Man features the wonderful Roy Scheider, who gets his younger brother, Hoffman, embroiled in a disturbing cat-and-mouse game of espionage and conspiracies.
The producers of The Simple Life would send Hilton and friend Nicole Richie (daughter of Lionel) to live with a family on a farm in Altus, Arkansas, making comedy out of transplanting two urban heiresses into the "unglamorous" rural South.
In four hard-won years of sobriety — and we're talking the grinding, unglamorous work of it, the sober companions and living houses, the daily mindful avoidance of triggers — Demi Lovato has thrown herself deeply into a useful and engaged life.
"I can describe experiences that are mundane and unglamorous-—unlike The L Word or Blue Is the Warmest Color where every lesbian is hegemonically attractive, abusive towards her partners, and scissoring on an expensive bed in every other scene," Maddy explains.
In a pop taxonomy of black male nobility, he is cut squarely from the mold of Barack Obama — generally cool-blooded, affable, devoted to unglamorous fundamentals — a figure whom he is doubtlessly on a shortlist to portray in an inevitable epic.
All it takes is a subway ride to the last stop on the F, up four flights of warehouse stairs, past the noisy production lines of the Hanky Panky lingerie factory to the unglamorous showroom of Fabscrap in Jamaica, Queens.
Dean PhillipsDean PhillipsThis week: House Democrats voting to hold Barr, Ross in contempt New CBO report fuels fight over minimum wage Unglamorous rules change helps a big bill pass MORE (D-Minn.) Similar efforts by centrists and possible dealmakers have fizzled.
Others who had built fashion and beauty empires — Coco Chanel, Estée Lauder — constructed them on narratives that polished over unglamorous biographical details — Chanel's early years with a laundress mother, followed by her time in an orphanage; Lauder's modest beginnings in Queens.
She and her compatriots also worry about the shopkeepers who, because they lack easy access to public transportation, drive in from outside the city to work in the unglamorous stores that make up a stretch of Columbus Avenue in the low 100s.
The weakness they describe is in a relatively modest and unglamorous division of the Navy — 11 ships with a limited mission — but they nonetheless feel the problems have become more pressing given the United States' volatile relationships with Iran and North Korea.
Still, Kidman's brooding, mumbling, unglamorous turn comes in a vehicle so fraught with clichés that the movie feels as if it's stumbling about until the finishing stretch, which, while somewhat more unpredictable, ultimately comes as too little, too late to redeem it.
If the administration maintains its current course, the U.S. will further embolden autocrats and undermine a lot of brave people working — frequently in unglamorous, challenging and maybe even dangerous conditions — to ensure that the tyranny that reigns today comes with an expiration date.
The move signals worries about slowing growth and increased pressures from the trade war with the U.S. • Asia's high demand for sea cucumbers has turned the unglamorous creatures into "black gold" for fishers, endangering the species and threatening to disrupt underwater ecosystems.
Early offerings were the kinds of unglamorous products that consumers typically bought at their local hardware store: power cords and cables for electronics and, in particular, batteries — with prices roughly 30 percent lower than that of national brands like Energizer and Duracell.
The best illustration of what hard, unglamorous and unpopular work it can be to advance changes that ought to come naturally is Ms Harman's account of how Westminster has evolved, and how it has not, since she first won her south London seat in 1982.
Not only is Jones almost 50-years-old and considerably slower now than when he was in his pomp, he has also suffered a few devastating knockout losses of late—the latter of which coming against the unglamorous Welshman Enzo Maccarinelli last December in Russia.
"There's a sadness in that the longer you stay in this career, the harder it becomes to get people to sit in a theater and not focus on your looks," she told Vogue in 2007, while promoting In the Valley of Elah, another "unglamorous" role.
To learn more about him and his life, read his welcome post here Lori McKenna: The Bird & the Rifle (CN/Thirty Tigers '21) McKenna fell off my radar after Warners's excellent, Tim McGraw-produced Unglamorous in 25, and I promise it won't happen again.
In the end, it was an unglamorous holding action, but one that suited Mr. Biden's Mr. Fix-It approach to the vice presidency — and his view of Ukraine as the front line in a larger battle to contain the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
We then heeded our guide's advice to seek lunch in a nondescript place that seemed oblivious to tourists, and we found it in the Reviravolta, where we sat at a decidedly unglamorous Formica table and devoured plates of expertly grilled sea bass and sardines.
Its brief renaissance ended in 2012, and since then Perm has lapsed into its former status as an average Russian industrial city: an utterly unglamorous mixture of charming but mostly lackluster tsarist buildings in the center and piles of gray concrete in the suburbs.
Concern over this atrophy is what is prompting so many Democratic officials — including Mr. Obama himself and Eric H. Holder Jr., his former attorney general — to urge donors and activists to direct their time and money toward unglamorous causes such as redistricting and statehouse races.
It is also associated with the corner deli or grocery store, where these days tulips stand as unglamorous commoners, identical bunches of primary reds and yellows shipped from stadium-size fields in the Netherlands, bound with rubber bands and jammed into green plastic buckets.
As much as we love it when celebrities 'get real' online about how long it takes to achieve a photo, how many stretch marks they really have or how unglamorous the minutiae of their life is, posts like that are merely drops in a FaceTuned ocean.
The consumer electronics giant, which historically has remained aloof from the unglamorous but potentially lucrative market for enterprise software, has in the past two years set partnerships with IBM, Cisco Systems and now SAP that enable Apple products to reach a growing audience of business professionals.
Kraft, a Trump friend whose professional football team won its sixth Super Bowl earlier this month, is accused of soliciting sexual services for pay on two consecutive days at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa, which is located in an unglamorous strip mall in Jupiter, Florida.
Dean PhillipsDean PhillipsThis week: House Democrats voting to hold Barr, Ross in contempt New CBO report fuels fight over minimum wage Unglamorous rules change helps a big bill pass MORE (D-Minn.), showed up to a House Democratic lawmaker group photo Tuesday afternoon wearing a white suit.  .
Dean PhillipsDean PhillipsThis week: House Democrats voting to hold Barr, Ross in contempt New CBO report fuels fight over minimum wage Unglamorous rules change helps a big bill pass MORE (D-Minn.), who's planning to hold an infrastructure hearing in his swing district in the Minneapolis suburbs.
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As the narrative shifts between past and present, parallels emerge between the young Lucy's love for the soldier she never really knew and the developing semi-romantic relationship between Ellen and Andrew — given persuasive, unglamorous existence by Seibert and Lochtefeld — as they hide behind their online personas.
It's a phrase that's repeated by NBA analysts and fans alike, a mantra with an almost moral undertone, suggesting that the hard, unglamorous work of preventing points is more noble than the glory boy fun of scoring them, and therefore should be held in higher esteem.
She was key to shaping high-level editorial and business strategy, recruiting so many of the incredibly talented producers and editors on this team, but she also never shied away from unglamorous work — in the early months of 'The Daily,' she woke up at 5 a.m.
She was the stay-at-home mom of a 2-year-old in New Jersey by the time she enrolled in law school, and after graduating, she taught at fairly unglamorous public universities for years before getting an offer from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.
On Monday afternoon, at Wembley Stadium in London, Aston Villa plays Derby County in the winner-take-all Championship playoff final, which sends the victor to the opulence of the Premier League while consigning the loser to another season in the unglamorous second tier of English football.
During this highly polarized time in our country, black women leaders are carrying both the water — as we do the hard, unglamorous work of organizing in and nurturing our communities — and the torch, as we inspire the country to see past the darkness to a just future.
" Using repetition like a rapier, this Harvard law professor who had risen to the Senate after a long tour through the unglamorous world of bankruptcy law and career-and-marital back-switching, talked of how the suffragettes had been told, "It's too hard, give up now.
But today the hottest ticket in San Francisco classical music is around the corner at SoundBox, a new performance venue, launched by the Symphony in 2014, that has turned a decidedly unglamorous, acoustically dreadful building into a place designed to attract an entirely new audience to the symphony.
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National Beverage, which bought the LaCroix brand in 1996, fills its cans with carbonated water in 12 plants nationwide — an unglamorous origin story compared to San Pellegrino flowing from an Alpine spring or Perrier bubbling up in the South of France, but a key factor in LaCroix's success.
During a lengthy conversation at Brandeis University, where she is a professor, Ms. Hill reflected on the aftermath of her own testimony, and of Christine Blasey Ford's before the committee this year, and the unglamorous slog of what it would really take to confront and redress sexual harassment.
From its scrappy beginnings, when it featured tough and unglamorous local horses with names like Joe Cotton and Pink Star, the Derby matured into a sporting dynamo, one of the first mass events of the radio and then TV era, when Secretariat was as famous as any athlete, anywhere.
Employees at the Fremont plant describe a chaotic workplace in which Silicon Valley ideals of nimble innovation and robotic automation clash with the unglamorous realities of car-making, from the safe use of fork-lift trucks on the shop floor to the dexterous insertion of plastic parts in car interiors.
"This has become a massive manhunt," said Dean PhillipsDean PhillipsThis week: House Democrats voting to hold Barr, Ross in contempt New CBO report fuels fight over minimum wage Unglamorous rules change helps a big bill pass MORE, head of the Denver office of the FBI, during a Tuesday news conference.
His detractors contend that his two strip clubs along Broad Street, the Discotheque Lounge and Vegas Showgirls, are the last seedy obstacles hindering a downtown revitalization that might finally help Augusta shed its reputation as a sort of unglamorous urban crust around the sparkling green geode that is the Augusta National.
After a decade of unglamorous work for local prosecutors and a studied induction into San Francisco's social elite, a Candidate Harris was by turns a society-page veteran and a prolific loiterer at supermarket parking lots, unfurling an ironing board from her back seat as a canvas for campaign literature.
When he joined the Kansas City Monarchs out of the Army, it was an unglamorous means to an end, enduring relentless bus rides for the $100 a week he could send to his mother and save for his own future, envisioning a life as a coach, teacher and athletic director.
There are some incredibly unglamorous sides to the job, and an early morning wake-up call the day after the wedding (when you've probably been on your feet until the early hours) to return to the venue and ensure that everything is returned to how it was found is probably the worst part.
I also found the "kitchen catwalk" spread — several photos of her strutting in different looks in what I imagine to be a commercial kitchen that doubles as a secret entryway to somewhere fabulous — to be a kind of display of work, the elegance and vim of her outfits juxtaposed against unglamorous obstacles.
Like the best heroic-journalism tomes, it offers the inside play-by-play — debates about how to approach a source; the unglamorous work of knocking on strangers' doors; the more glamorous, furtive, late-night meetings and surreptitiously handed-over documents; the stately editor-in-chief who holds firm to First Amendment values.
It was the part that everybody remembered from his first published work, a long essay about the unglamorous and sometimes unsavory work of cooks and dishwashers that ran in The New Yorker in 1999 and that made it almost impossible for waiters to sell seafood between Sunday and Tuesday for at least a decade.
Dean PhillipsDean PhillipsThis week: House Democrats voting to hold Barr, Ross in contempt New CBO report fuels fight over minimum wage Unglamorous rules change helps a big bill pass MORE (D-Minn.), said he's participated in behind-the-scenes talks on drug pricing among members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, led by Reps.
Three of the set's films, "David Golder" (22006), skillfully adapted from Irène Némirovsky's precocious best seller; "Poil de Carotte" ("Redhead," 193), a sensitive story of an unloved child; and "La Tête d'Un Homme" ("A Man's Head," 219), an atmospheric policier based on one of Georges Simenon's early Inspector Maigret novels, all starring the protean, unglamorous Harry Baur, are exceptional.
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But even if every woman posted every raw, unglamorous detail of her life, it wouldn't get to the root of the issue, which is that while social media is a great place to discover new hairstyles, recipes and memes, it's not a viable source of self-esteem, a tool for comparison or a road map to life.
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That includes the ongoing advocacy by networks of health care professionals, such as the formidable National Nurses United and the 20,000-strong organization Physicians for a National Health Program, in addition to the essential, if often unglamorous, work of phone calls and door-knocking to turn out voters for candidates and ballot initiatives that move single-payer forward.
But without Nadal's humility and internal drive, he would never have been able to keep pushing himself; to keep doing the unglamorous work to recover from physical setbacks, most recently the psoas muscle problem that forced him to retire in the middle of the Australian Open in January and then kept him from playing another tournament until early April.
The tasks that awaited them were mostly routine and unglamorous: rerecording dialogue with Elizabeth Olsen, who plays the Scarlet Witch; taking their last looks at a new trailer for the film, which opens Friday and sets up a battle royal in which every costumed champion in the Marvel universe must defend it against a genocidal titan named Thanos.
"The Woman's Hour" offers several timely reminders: of how history-altering legislation comes about after much nitty-gritty, unglamorous fieldwork; of how tenuous the progress toward true equality under the law really is; of how social and legal changes that in retrospect seem inevitable were hardly considered such at the time (indeed, even after the 19th Amendment passed, its ratification was contested repeatedly).
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If the show's particular magic comes in part from its sense of stasis, its promise that being beautiful in a big city doesn't mean you've actually got much going on, then this is how the cast retains their appeal now that they're Vogue-profile famous: by showing us all of the unglamorous — even violent — work that goes into remaining camera-ready.
Our small shop was full of items we'd shipped back from trips to far-flung places, pieces wrapped in newspaper and lugged through customs, weird objects unearthed from antiques auctions in unglamorous corners of America, and a carefully curated collection of new items sourced from a handful of designers making products with the same integrity and sense of providence as the antiques they stood beside.
Ms. Jones was a soul singer in a classic and now disappearing mold: born and raised in the South (Georgia and South Carolina), growing up singing in church and listening to James Brown and Aretha Franklin, coming north (to Brooklyn), and earning an unglamorous living until, in the 1990s, she found her way to the soul revivalists who would become her backing band, the Dap-Kings.
In between talking shit about our kitchen manager ("He did a great job when he worked for me, except when there was a Phish show, and he'd be like 'fuck this, I'm out of here'") and explaining about the unglamorous origins of Vic's "mercato" seasonal-vegetable menu (a Nathan's hot dog was involved), Sterling knocked out a killer zucchini dish that's a menu staple at Vic's for good reason.
But while she gutted the back half of Pure Heroine from the setlist, she made up for it with a crowd-pleasing cover of Robyn's "Hang with Me." Even "Royals," the breakout hit song about being an unglamorous but ambitious teen that made her a star five years ago, seemed like old news in the face of Lorde Phase Two, and her fans were happy to follow her down the path of what's to come.
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That may sound like a surprisingly unglamorous concern for a luxury clothing brand, but Hearst's namesake label, which she founded in New York City in 2015, is remarkable not only for its attention to high-level craft and luxurious materials — including merino wool sheared from sheep reared on the 17,000-acre ranch she inherited in 2011 from her father in her native Uruguay — but also for her minute focus on how her clothes, whether a figure-skimming, graphic-printed knit dress or an ankle-length trench, make women feel.
So, while Battle of the Network Stars may be miles away from the big-money big-screen action franchises Rousey was getting roles in back when she was still considered an unbeatable fighter (not to mention evidence that Hollywood is a cruel and unforgiving seducer that will turn its back on you the second your star begins to fade), Rousey's role as coach, as unglamorous as it may seem, fits in nicely with her narrative as a born destroyer of cultural boundaries, giving her a chance to smash once and for all the petty little prejudices we lovers of televised celebrity athletic competitions have been burdened with for the last three decades.

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