unattractiveness


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Antonyms for unattractiveness

an ugliness of appearance that is not appealing to viewers

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It is desirable to expand study sample and include more categories such as periodontists and laypeople to identify levels of acceptance, attractiveness and unattractiveness and treatment needs for each defect.
Little work has been done in the field of marketing research in relation to attractiveness or unattractiveness (e.g., weight) of the sales person and the effect this has on the buying habits of the consumer.
Midnight in Paris embodies Allen's unfathomable knowledge of modernist objects of art, points out uninformed or inexperienced positive reception as genuine love, provides a romantic narrative of artists who surpass their times (its commitment to the earlier period is not dispiriting), communicates the point that being a modernist creator is only a question of being yourself (its reserve on the topic of modernism's representational unattractiveness is bizarre), and creates a close causal link between the setting and artistic achievement.
Accessories patterns mainly convey a meaning of reflecting cultural content of a certain period in the history, which can't be simply understood as attractiveness or unattractiveness. Symbolic patterns need to have a clear symbolic meaning.
Possible drivers of the inequity include university advocacy for optimal care in its training hospitals, unattractiveness to doctors of regional hospitals in economically depressed towns away from Johannesburg, budgetary constraints in the provincial health service, poor co-ordination of hospital referral systems, and management weakness at lower levels of care.
The authors wrote: "Old age identity was associated with embarrassing physical decline and unattractiveness and that old age was associated with being unlovable as evidenced by The Beatles' When I'm Sixty-four."
This survey emphasised the unattractiveness of a career in burn care.
Austen challenges both the stigma and the notion that spinsterhood is inevitable for women with personal failings like unattractiveness or a prickly personality.
However, given his sex, age, and overall unattractiveness, him having a baby or even initiating the process was about as likely as Aunt Lucy running for president.
Add to this the unattractiveness of the insurance industry to young people entering the workforce, as well as the time and cost associated with training new staff, and what should be a manageable problem becomes a major headache.
"The development on the Bolton Street frontage is even more extreme in its mediocrity in conception, and its singular unattractiveness. It makes no positive visual contribution to character of the area.
The narrator in The House of the Seven Gables, for instance, ridicules Hepzibah for her unattractiveness, unfashionability, and her belief in her significance as a gentlewoman, but this narrator also appears to denigrate efforts at self-reliance, to admire the villain JafFrey Pyncheon's consummate respectability, and to deplore scandalous talk "that must not stain our page" (2:123), all poses that the novel clearly undermines.
While I demonstrated the unattractiveness of the side part, my boy confessed to me that he had always wanted to understand the nature of love, of affection, of isolation, of depression.
He referred to unattractiveness of the Oil Ministry's current oil contract models as a stumbling block in the way of attracting foreign investment adding the committee he heads has spent more than 3.000 hours to study contracts while at the same time has examined more than 70 Phd theses from within and outside the country on the subject.