Sentences with phrase «little appeal»

Tired spaces and equipment with limited play value hold little appeal for children.

While some fields, such as construction, continue to hold little appeal to women, many professional fields are becoming more diverse.

The SUV had very little appeal for me, but I needed something quick and rare on the road.

His prescription for world peace will make little appeal to a hyper - activist generation, but maybe he had something after all.

People may enjoy this movie if the humor appeals to them, but it will have little appeal outside of this demographic due to its lack of charm, heart and innovation.

Net nets are simple man's investing which may be why they have little appeal for most investors.

But Langella is basically a New York stage actor, which has little appeal in Hollywood.

In the Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt dismisses Please Give as a New York story with little appeal for outsiders, while Andrew O'Hehir in Salon and Manohla Dargis in the New York Times both fixate on the filmmaker's gender.

But what is surprising is how little he appealed to fear of Hell or even to the expectation of rewards after death.

We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.

I saw in Mohler's review of the book yet another illustration of what I have described here; for as Mohler related the book's argument, there was precious little appeal to evidence, and considerably more to morality and emotion.

It could be that the idea of moving my burgeoning belly through throngs of people and their armfuls of holiday packages holds little appeal at this point, or it's possible that this year I'm seeing the holidays as a time to relax for the first time since the beginning of October, and all I really have on my wishlist is the desire to have some fun with my family.

With thes ratios, if transfers are not instant, I see little appeal.

Games based on anime can vary in quality — while some can make good use of their existing characters and ideas — such as Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage and Dragonball Z: Budokai 3, others fall short in re-creating the magic of the original material and have little appeal aside from the popularity of the series.

The hardware itself isn't at fault, but the lack of conventional apps means there's little appeal over the Chromecast dongle that's half the price.

«This is a meteorite whose organics had been found altered by heat and of little appeal for bio - or prebiotic chemistry, yet the very Solar System processes that lead to its alteration seem also to have brought about novel and complex molecules of definite prebiotic interest such as polyethers.»

Although the hosts are mighty difficult to oppose in their current form, their slim odds holds very little appeal and it wouldn't surprise me if a few punters chanced their arm this weekend with the Toffees.

Before 2005, each item copied Oreo's U.S. approach and had little appeal in the new market.

Finally, the New 3DS holds little appeal for gamers who have an existing collection of classic cartridges and want to play them on the go.

It is easy to see, from a reading of such Old Testament references, that such a continuation of bare existence carried little hope and made little appeal to the ordinary Jew of the time.

Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.

Parsons declined to comment Thursday on the current IPO, though he acknowledged that the process in general has little appeal for many business owners.

Chouinard describes himself as a «dirtbag at heart» — by which he means that he's a millionaire for whom material things hold little appeal.

Roman culture and civilization, had little appeal for him and sheer naked force seems to have been his favorite political tool.

Moreover, though old - line, hard - line feminism has little appeal for today's women, its ideology lives on in law and policy — like light rays from a dead star.

These policies are resisted now chiefly in Islamic countries on the basis of principles that have little appeal to those in Western countries who suffer from harsher treatment at home.

But today, those options have little appeal.

The superficiality of Western musical sophistication - or what has for several decades been taken for sophistication - holds little appeal for them.

When I saw your title I was like what the heck is momofuki, LOL Normally vegan foods have very little appeal to me, but this cake actually looks delicious looking!!!

I know that Arsene would have little appeal for a character such as Zlatan but what he offers might just outweigh the dislike.

Simply hiring mercenaries to play ball who are self absorbed, detached, CTC jerks has little appeal.

There may be even be a little appeal in backing both teams to score as well as the Citizens have picked up only the one clean sheet in their last seven league home games.

Even within these states, the idea of shifting away from fresh produce seemed to have little appeal: just 58 schools from across all four states chose to participate, and the majority of those schools were very small, rural schools located in Alaska where procuring fresh produce can be a challenge.

But now some Republicans are raising red flags over DeFrancisco, the Senate's deputy majority leader, saying he will be viewed as an Albany insider who will have little appeal to voters looking to reform a broken state government.

A Lack of Qualifications Despite the ubiquity of forensic pathologists in pop culture, the field has little appeal to most medical school graduates.

The writing doesn't help — the pilot script is full of silly plot short - cuts and painfully cheesy lines — but there's no getting around the fact that the new version of the character has very little appeal, and certainly won't put the memory of Richard Dean Anderson, who originated the role, out of anyone's mind.

Though Hitchcock will likely have little appeal for children or even most teens, audiences should note the film includes some graphic, albeit brief, shots of decapitated corpses, a brutal family killing and some gruesome verbal descriptions of cut up murder victims.

Though a longtime fan, my distinct aversion to «Grumpy Old Men» movies — which seem to coat a thin veneer of rebelliousness over reactionary conservatism — the story of an irascible nonagenarian staring down mortality, even tailored to its star, had little appeal.

Silent Running is a classic film in the sci - fi genre, although it's one of those films that has little appeal to anyone that typically avoids such fare.

Beyond this, it holds little appeal.

Paper books have little appeal for me anymore, and those few coffee - table or cookbook titles I do want to see, I usually get from the library.

I have zero interest in reading the gossip columns so the idea of sitting down with an almost 500 page memoir that I thought was going to be about one man's childhood growing up in «high - society» San Francisco held little appeal, but I'd just finished my previous audio book, so popped the first CD of the audio version that the publisher had so presciently sent a few days before into the car stereo - and was sucked in within minutes.

London has little appeal for village girl Meggy Swann until she begins helping her father in his alchemy work.

Horizon's AlphaPro and BetaPro ETF products have hitherto had little appeal to the long - term, buy - and - hold passive investor crowd.

Bottom line: If you receive enough in Social Security and pension payments to cover all or nearly all of your retirement expenses or your nest egg is so large that your chances of depleting it are virtually nil, then a QLAC may have little appeal for you.

Update: A family came to take Mikey home a couple of days ago, little Waco seemed to know that these gentle kids weren't his and kept glancing at me with a little appeal.

However, it's very unlikely you will be redeeming Qantas miles for your ticket (the program has little appeal to residents outside Oceania), so I consider this a good thing.