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appeal as in:  appealed for help

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  • The police appealed for help identifying the shooter.
    appealed = asked
  • My parents said I couldn't go, but I appealed their decision and asked them to remember when they were in high school. They finally agreed to let me go on three conditions.
    appealed = requested that they reverse or overturn [their decision]
  • Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths.   (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks for help
  • His advice was to appeal to God and that He would answer our prayers.   (source)
    appeal = make a request
  • But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting…   (source)
    appealed = called upon
  • When he appealed for rest while burning up with fever, the Bird refused him.   (source)
    appealed = requested
  • Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit at next year's Ceremony.   (source)
    appeal = request (to overturn a decision)
  • She was a judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.   (source)
    appeals = requests or challenges (of a lower court's decision)
  • "If he loses his appeal," I asked one evening, "what'll happen to him?"   (source)
    appeal = request that a decision be overturned
  • On the morning after the village crier's appeal the men of Umuofia met in the marketplace and decided to collect without delay two hundred and fifty bags of cowries to appease the white man.   (source)
    appeal = request
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  • She appealed to her husband.   (source)
    appealed = asked
  • MARY WARREN: I— She glances at Abigail, who is staring down at her remorselessly. Then, appealing to Proctor: Mr. Proctor—
    PROCTOR, taking it right up: Abigail leads the girls to the woods, Your Honor, and they have danced there naked—   (source)
    appealing = (looking) as though asking for help
  • "Come, pig!" said Mr. Zuckerman, tapping the pail.
    ...
    "He's appealing to your stomach."   (source)
    appealing = asking (in a way that is of interest)
  • How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?   (source)
    appeal = request
  • The appeal was rejected and the man was duly executed.   (source)
    appeal = request [to overturn a verdict]
  • Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing — and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal of that look, it would haunt her to her dying day.   (source)
    appeal = request for help
  • She appealed to everybody and to everything, finally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast out even articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries.   (source)
    appealed = requested help
  • "I appeal to your friends," he said, "they will, perhaps, not mind sitting in judgement on my case."   (source)
    appeal = make a request
  • So powerful seemed the minister's appeal that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would speak out the guilty name, or else that the guilty one himself in whatever high or lowly place he stood, would be drawn forth by an inward and inevitable necessity, and compelled to ascend the scaffold.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.   (source)
    appealing = requesting or challenging
  • My passionate and indignant appeals were lost upon them.   (source)
    appeals = requests
  • Miss Crawford, pleased with the appeal, gave her all her best judgment and taste, made everything easy by her suggestions, and tried to make everything agreeable by her encouragement.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • It had old chandeliers and mantels and pier mirrors (though none were original to the house), and Joe did manage to fill the place appealingly with what was left of his own furniture plus antiques borrowed from friends or taken on consignment from local antique shops.†   (source)
  • Because Dell was so tired, he looked appealingly like someone who had been to mime school.†   (source)
  • "I — how?" croaked Ollivander, and he looked appealingly at Ron and Hermione for help.†   (source)
  • Thirty loud, fumy minutes—past car dealerships with trucks displayed appealingly like desserts, past fast-food chains and liquor stores and mini-marts and gas stations—until I reached the turnoff for downtown.†   (source)
  • That is what makes this aging-of-the-population theory of crime reduction so appealingly tidy: since people mellow out as they get older, more older people must lead to less crime.†   (source)
  • He cleared his throat and glanced appealingly at his colleague on the computer.†   (source)
  • 'What is the matter with my master?' asked Sam in a low voice, looking appealingly at Strider.†   (source)
  • She heard water run, then Trina was back and rubbing something into her hair that smelled appealingly of vanilla.†   (source)
  • All the boys really liked her, especially because she was dumb—when anyone spoke to her she just blinked in an appealingly dumb way.†   (source)
  • There was something so appealingly intense, energetic and various about Nathan—his quiet but firm domination, his mimicry, his comic bluster about things culinary and medical, which, she felt, was the thinnest disguise for his real concern for her health.†   (source)
  • The woman looked up, appealingly.†   (source)
  • Rufo glanced at me appealingly; Star opened the little bottle.†   (source)
  • And she would look warily, appealingly, into the faces of friends to see if she could find there traces of their condemnation of her.†   (source)
  • PROCTOR, turning, appealing to Hale: Mr. Hale!   (source)
    appealing = asking
  • Dill was of the opinion that an appeal to Atticus's better nature might work:   (source)
    appeal = request
  • "And if there are, you know there's an appeal process."   (source)
    appeal = request (to overturn a decision)
  • To get him released she walked forty miles alone over mountains to appeal to a powerful cousin.   (source)
    appeal = make a request
  • I think we'll have a reasonable chance on appeal, though.   (source)
    appeal = request that a decision be overturned
  • But they all laughed at that — an appeal went to a committee for study.   (source)
    appeal = request (to overturn a decision)
  • I knew it was pointless appealing to Musharraf.   (source)
    appealing = making a request
  • There'll be an appeal, you can count on that.   (source)
    appeal = request that a decision be overturned
  • After this appeal, two guards left camp and returned with a dog, reportedly the only one left in Naoetsu.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • Several POW officers appealed to the authorities for meat; to withhold it, they said, violated international law.   (source)
    appealed = requested
  • If I get Pilot I'll put in an appeal.   (source)
    appeal = request (to overturn a decision)
  • He appealed to all Swatis to return.   (source)
    appealed = called upon
  • Maybe Louie was being punished for refusing to make the broadcast, or maybe the producer to whom Louie had appealed for help had told the Bird of Louie's accusations.   (source)
  • Jem shuddered. "Like somebody was readin' my mind… like somebody could tell what I was gonna do. Can't anybody tell what I'm gonna do lest they know me, can they, Scout?"
      Jem's question was an appeal. I reassured him: "Can't anybody tell what you're gonna do lest they live in the house with you, and even I can't tell sometimes."   (source)
    appeal = request
  • In desperation the animals began appealing to the two horses which drew the van to stop.   (source)
    appealing = pleading (asking urgently)
  • When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to snivelling tears.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favor of the windmill.   (source)
  • All I have done is to protect the jury against the emotional effect of emotional appeals by some of our more emotional counsel.   (source)
    appeals = requests or challenges
  • It systematically undermines the solidarity of the family, and it calls its leader by a name which is a direct appeal to the sentiment of family loyalty.   (source)
    appeal = request (something made to call upon or be attractive to)
  • Most of the time they screamed abuse at him and threatened at every hesitation to deliver him over to the guards again; but sometimes they would suddenly change their tune, call him comrade, appeal to him in the name of Ingsoc and Big Brother, and ask him sorrowfully whether even now he had not enough loyalty to the Party left to make him wish to undo the evil he had done.   (source)
    appeal = ask
  • But there were other days when they settled down to their work almost eagerly, making a tremendous show of entering up their minutes and drafting long memoranda which were never finished — when the argument as to what they were supposedly arguing about grew extraordinarily involved and abstruse, with subtle haggling over definitions, enormous digressions, quarrels threats, even, to appeal to higher authority.   (source)
    appeal = make a request
  • He paused opposite Winston and began eagerly appealing to him: 'You don't think they'll shoot me, do you, old chap?'   (source)
    appealing = asking
  • All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.   (source)
    appealed = called upon
  • Her eyes were fixed on his, with an appealing expression that looked more like fear than pain. A curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward to help her.   (source)
    appealing = as though asking for help
  • He made this last appeal with a courtly air of conviction which was not without its own charm.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • She looked appealingly to us all in turn, beginning and ending with her husband.   (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks
  • Then he raised his arms again, as though appealing to the whole universe.   (source)
    appealing = pleading (asking urgently)
  • I have not known the man to whose innate kindliness I would more confidently make an appeal.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • This was a great relief, and Buck caused even the weazened face of Perrault to twist itself into a grin one morning, when Francois forgot the moccasins and Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and refused to budge without them.   (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks for help
  • "Why, Robert sent word down by his daughter Nancy and she said you wanted a girl—didn't she Flora Jane?" appealing to her daughter who had come out to the steps.   (source)
    appealing = asking for agreement
  • My expectation was not realized, for when he found that his appeal would not be successful, he got into quite a frantic condition.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • She looked at me so appealingly, and at the same time manifested such courage and resolution in her bearing, that I gave in at once to her wishes.   (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks
  • She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more appealing than ever.   (source)
    appealing = pleading (asking urgently)
  • Mina looked at him appealingly as she asked, "But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?"   (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asked
  • A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous interference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • "Edmund, am I saying too much?"
    Edmund, on this appeal, had first to hear what was going on; but, on understanding the question, was at no loss for an answer.   (source)
    appeal = request (in this case, for an answer)
  • Fanny imagined this to be an appeal to her judgment, and therefore, after a moment's consideration, said, "If you only want me as a listener, cousin, I will be as useful as I can; but I am not qualified for an adviser."   (source)
    appeal = request
  • "She will not speak!" murmured Mr. Dimmesdale, who, leaning over the balcony, with his hand upon his heart, had awaited the result of his appeal.   (source)
  • The directness of this appeal drew the eyes of the whole crowd upon the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale—young clergyman, who had come from one of the great English universities, bringing all the learning of the age into our wild forest land.   (source)
  • A few minutes were enough for such unsatisfactory sensations on each side; and Sir Thomas having exerted himself so far as to speak a few words of calm approbation in reply to an eager appeal of Mr. Yates, as to the happiness of the arrangement, the three gentlemen returned to the drawing-room together, Sir Thomas with an increase of gravity which was not lost on all.   (source)
    appeal = request (in this case, for agreement)
  • Interpreting Hester Prynne's deportment as an appeal of this nature, society was inclined to show its former victim a more benign countenance than she cared to be favoured with, or, perchance, than she deserved.   (source)
    appeal = request
  • At this wild and singular appeal, which indicated that Hester Prynne's situation had provoked her to little less than madness, the young minister at once came forward, pale, and holding his hand over his heart, as was his custom whenever his peculiarly nervous temperament was thrown into agitation.   (source)
  • The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.   (source)
  • The young minister, on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window-curtain; while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal.   (source)
  • Knowing what this poor fallen man had once been, her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her—the outcast woman—for support against his instinctively discovered enemy.   (source)
    appealed = called upon
  • He hesitated, looking appealingly at Charlie.†   (source)
  • Laila remembered Tariq's hands, soft but strong, the tortuous, full veins on the backs of them, which she had always found so appealingly masculine.†   (source)
  • He was plenty pretty himself, with wheat-colored hair curling around a tan, lived-in face that creased appealingly around bottle-green eyes.†   (source)
  • And his wife beside him regarding him uneasily, appealingly.†   (source)
  • I looked at her appealingly and could not answer.†   (source)
  • (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry†   (source)
  • She stroked Scarlett's arm appealingly and Scarlett stared at her.†   (source)
  • She opened cracking lips and whispered appealingly: "Water."†   (source)
  • (He stops in bewildered self-amazement—to Larry appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry†   (source)
  • (appealingly) You know how I feel, don't you, Larry†   (source)
  • She looked appealingly at Poirot.†   (source)
  • Oh, the deep blue eyes framed by thick lashes that stared straight into a little girl's heart and the perfect miniature hands extended, appealingly asking, "Please, won't you be my mama?"†   (source)
  • (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours another—to Rocky, who is regarding him with scorn—appealingly) You seen it, didn't you, Rocky†   (source)
  • And then, tired of this, he would take up a book; read for a time; and then say half plaintively, appealingly (for he did not like me to witness these outbursts) : "What are you doing this afternoon, Jinny ?"†   (source)
  • She looked appealingly at the two girls who kept their eyes cast down and then hopefully toward Uncle Peter's erect back.†   (source)
  • She looked appealingly at Poirot.†   (source)
  • Yelping, Prissy raised her head and peering over the side of the wagon saw it was, indeed, a cow, a red and white animal which stood looking at them appealingly with large frightened eyes.†   (source)
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appeal as in:  appeals to youthful tastes

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  • Her enthusiasm appeals to me.
    appeals = is attractive
  • The music has popular appeal.
    appeal = attractiveness
  • Part of its appeal is that it is a new approach.
  • The bars provided a way to climb down the riverbank. Not a very appealing way—the bars looked slippery, and the water below was so terribly fast.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • But I realized that these three appealed to me because they were like the heroes in the novels I read.   (source)
    appealed = were attractive
  • Through dinner, Dad would list all the false theories of science that his genius son would disprove; then after dinner, I would tell Richard about college, about classes, books, professors, things I knew would appeal to his innate need to learn.   (source)
    appeal = be attractive or desirable
  • If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.   (source)
    appeal = are attractive
  • One of the first movies they got me was Bend It Like Beckham, thinking the story of a Sikh girl challenging her cultural norms and playing football would appeal to me.   (source)
    appeal = be attractive
  • I was afraid the appeal of my life in America would draw me back, that I would wade back into that great, big river and let myself forget, let the things I had learned these last few days sink to the bottom.   (source)
    appeal = attractiveness
  • But the long silence from Ron and Hermione had made Harry feel so cut off from the magical world that even taunting Dudley had lost its appeal — and now Ron and Hermione had forgotten his birthday.   (source)
    appeal = desirability
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  • Neither putting on makeup nor wearing a sheet had much appeal for me, so I played football with the boys, who would waive their guys-only rule and let me join a team if they were short a player.   (source)
    appeal = attraction
  • Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works.   (source)
    appealed = was attractive
  • If the joker does not appeal to you, throw it away and keep this for good luck.   (source)
    appeal = seem desirable
  • And, far from being highway robbery, a costly price tag actually increases the appeal of the park.   (source)
    appeal = desirability
  • I had always wanted to see the rainbow-colored houses of Charleston, how they had real horse and buggies on the street, but as appealing as all that was, it nearly crushed me to think of leaving.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • That was what made traveling appeal to him—he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them.   (source)
    appeal = feel desirable
  • Roy had other options, none particularly appealing.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • Ender had always gone over the bridge to the castle of the Queen of Hearts, where there were games enough for him; but none of those appealed to him now.   (source)
    appealed = were attractive or desirable
  • Children are much more appealing, anyway.   (source)
    appealing = desirable
  • The idea of being able to escape so easily was appealing.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • That should appeal to your imagination.   (source)
    appeal = be attractive or desirable
  • Not that I ever believed that the whole production of World War II was a trick of the eye manipulated by a bunch of calculating fat old men, appealing though this idea was.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere.   (source)
    appealed = were attractive
  • That's the detail that appeals to me.   (source)
    appeals = is attractive or desirable
  • Also he had caught a glimpse of a fire through the trees, and that appealed to him with his dripping and ragged clothes clinging to him cold and clammy.   (source)
    appealed = was attractive or desirable
  • I read most of them with laudable zeal, but few of them really appealed to me.   (source)
    appealed = were attractive
  • The amiable suggestion of the birch switch—to the efficiency of which all of Mrs. Rachel's own children could have borne smarting testimony—did not appeal to Marilla.   (source)
    appeal = seem desirable or attractive
  • She looked so appealing and so pretty that I could not refuse her, and there was no possible reason why I should, so I took her with me.   (source)
    appealing = attractive (or possibly with urgency in the request)
  • Sir Thomas had appealed to her reason, conscience, and dignity.   (source)
    appealed = tried to show the desirability
  • Another something hit the wall, and the idea sounded appealing.   (source)
    appealing = desirable
  • But that only added to the scheme's appeal.   (source)
    appeal = attractiveness
  • But a tiny part of me wonders if this was a compliment. That he meant I was appealing in some way.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • None of the games appealed to him, the way he felt now.   (source)
    appealed = were attractive or desirable
  • It's an appealing setting, open and filled with light.   (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
  • But the thought of returning to Boulder in defeat wasn't very appealing, either.   (source)
  • The notion of maternal instincts in giant dinosaurs—and the drawings of cute babies poking their snouts out of the eggs—had appeal around the world.   (source)
    appeal = attractiveness
  • Darry and Sodapop were in the pictures too; Jerry Wood told me that if Sodapop and Darry hadn't been so good-looking, they wouldn't have taken so many. That was public appeal, he said.   (source)
  • Caroline had tried to make the sweatshirts more appealing by sewing large Santas, bordered with glitter, on the fronts, but this only made the dingy cotton seem dingier.   (source)
    appealing = attractive
  • "Of course, if the idea doesn't appeal to you," he said, blinking rapidly, "you needn't be in on it."   (source)
    appeal = feel desirable
  • This appealed to me mightily.   (source)
    appealed = was attractive
  • Two-Bit or Steve or even Soda would have gone right along with him, just to see if they could embarrass the girls, but that kind of kicks just doesn't appeal to me.   (source)
    appeal = feel desirable
  • To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal.   (source)
    appeal = attractiveness
  • On the face of it, Bullhead City doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstoy, an ideologue who expressed nothing but contempt for the bourgeois trappings of mainstream America.   (source)
    appeal = be attractive or desirable
  • I can see what appealed to Chris.   (source)
    appealed = was attractive
  • The reduction in the number of verbs — that is the point that will appeal to you, I think.   (source)
    appeal = be attractive
  • What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one.   (source)
    appealed = was attractive
  • It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips.   (source)
  • Your mind appeals to me.   (source)
    appeals = is attractive
  • The suggestion appealed to Diana.   (source)
    appealed = was attractive or desirable
  • The idea seems to appeal to Gimpy who turns to stare at Charlie.   (source)
    appeal = be attractive or desirable
  • Do they see a two-story apartment building that is an unappealing color of pink?†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealing means not and reverses the meaning of appealing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • This is all he remembers about her — details neither appealing nor unappealing.†   (source)
  • She'll return to her previously unappealing state soon.†   (source)
  • Pearl's sullen, accusing presence had become especially unappealing.†   (source)
  • "Okay," he said, in a way that she found unappealing.†   (source)
  • And yet nearly as unappealing as the brook.†   (source)
  • Speaking of unappealing states, Larkin, why don't you show us those baby blues, I mean yellows?†   (source)
  • It was an unappealing shade of pale green, with an even paler froth atop it.†   (source)
  • An awkward embrace, want clutched close by riches, but for Paul Berlin it was not unappealing.†   (source)
  • Now every citizen was guaranteed enough to eat, but the rations were not luxurious, and often as not were unappealing.†   (source)
  • And then, reaching out again, the clean smell of the water, which was surprisingly unappealing despite my thirst.†   (source)
  • Even though I was just figuring out that, for me, there was something inherently unappealing about getting married, I couldn't help but wonder if I'd take someone simply for the sake of making Dad happy.†   (source)
  • The trade-off must have seemed unappealing to NFL coaches, as passing attempts per game actually fell a bit through the 1960s.†   (source)
  • Maybe there was some rule about not making vampires out of the physically unappealing, she'd thought then, but now she wondered if the vampirism itself wasn't transformative, smoothing out blotched skin, adding color and luster to eyes and hair.†   (source)
  • And the more I listened and the more unappealing she became, the more I wanted to get inside her pants, for reasons no one comprehends under heaven.†   (source)
  • It occurred to him that if they were expected to shoot, they could also expect to be shot at—an unappealing thought.†   (source)
  • Bailey and I sloshed down twilight trails to the pig pens, and standing on the first fence rungs we poured down the unappealing concoctions to our grateful hogs.†   (source)
  • Her face had grown slightly puffy and her body had softened and slumped, but when she studied the family album she thought that her younger self seemed unappealingly puny by comparison—pinched and tight, almost starved-looking.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealingly means not and reverses the meaning of appealingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I felt myself weakening under the fatigue, straining to keep awake at times, eating food I found utterly too rich and unappealing.†   (source)
  • The way I see it, you had a weak circumstantial case before your most important witness died, and you've got an unappealing victim.†   (source)
  • When I lifted the top off, flaps of bread guts were hanging down, and Jimmy said it looked "unappealing."†   (source)
  • The food Mrs. Byrne makes is bland and unappealing —soft gray peas from a can, starchy boiled potatoes, watery stews—and there's never enough of it.†   (source)
  • The alternative is so unappealing.†   (source)
  • Annemarie said later that Jimmy should talk, that he looked "unappealing" in his stretched-out white T-shirt with yellow underarm stains.†   (source)
  • She found herself both warmed and distressed by this callow, transfixed infatuation and could really respond only to the poetry, for besides being, at twenty or so, at least ten years younger than she was, he was also physically unappealing—that is, enormously overweight aside from his grotesquely disoriented eyes.†   (source)
  • The firmness with which the men mouthed their cigars made the lower part of their faces expressionless, heavy, unappealing.†   (source)
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  • Thoughts of an appeal sickened her more, the same forced march through different courtrooms, farther from the marsh.†   (source)
  • Unless I wanted to sign a five-year indenturement contract with some corporation, and that was about as appealing to me as rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit.†   (source)
  • This appealed to those clients who wished to feel they were violating some blue-blooded Snilfard princess.†   (source)
  • The moment he settled himself against its gnarled roots, he understood why the place had once appealed to the stray: from where he sat, Edgar had a clear view down the trail both ways.†   (source)
  • Hers has a little bump on the bridge that I think only adds to her appeal.†   (source)
  • To add to his appeal, the whites of his eyes were the color of egg yolks and were further highlighted by being permanently bloodshot.†   (source)
  • If you want to make an appeal, now is the time.†   (source)
  • Sofia nodded, in the friendly manner of one who has no intention of considering the merits of an appeal.†   (source)
  • First you have to decide what kind of court you want to work for: a court that does a lot of trials or a court that hears appeals from lower courts.†   (source)
  • A few brave Jewish war veterans appealed to him for help, and he told Hitler in no uncertain terms that if the Jews were good enough to fight and shed their blood for the German Reich, they had the right to serve their country as professionals.†   (source)
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  • Its swaths of deep brush and arable land made it great for farming but less appealing for honeymoons and hedonism.†   (source)
  • They could coerce some of us into fighting with misinformation, or by appealing to greed—any number of ways.†   (source)
  • Once or twice it reared its head straight up, as if appealing to heaven—the abomination of the moment was perfectly expressed.†   (source)
  • My plan had been to immediately appeal Walter's conviction to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.†   (source)
  • But the thought of being out of the annex was appealing.†   (source)
  • There are outstretched little hands and appeals for attention.†   (source)
  • Although his female colleagues insisted the gray only accentuated his bookish appeal, Langdon knew better.†   (source)
  • Suddenly there was real appeal in building a volcano or making my own neoprene or demonstrating the various scientific applications of gear ratios.†   (source)
  • An' then Lucius Malfoy stood up an' said his bit, and the Committee jus' did exac'ly what he told 'em.... There's still the appeal!" said Ron fiercely.†   (source)
  • We can appeal.†   (source)
  • Jutta hears that grandmothers are rubbing granddaughters with feces, sawing off their hair with bread knives, anything to make them less appealing to the Russians.†   (source)
  • I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing.†   (source)
  • Once, I tried to appeal to my mom.†   (source)
  • He might have appealed to their pride a little bit, but he tried not to let his hopes get too high.†   (source)
  • Living in New York I hadn't needed one, but the idea appealed to me now.†   (source)
  • The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.†   (source)
  • Walking through the hallways, seeing the tidy rooms, each with a shiny kitchenette, a desk, an overstuffed couch and bed, Mae had to agree that the appeal was visceral.†   (source)
  • Dr. Johnson said, "Your mother has decided to waive your right to appeal.†   (source)
  • Liver sausage and sauerkraut couldn't possibly appeal to Jess, and was something both girls had detested the thought of all their lives.†   (source)
  • In a case this big, the DA followed every rule to the letter, so that if the case ever went up on appeal, procedure would not be the downfall of the original verdict.†   (source)
  • He was appealing the decision; mistakes of this kind—regarding one's orders—were almost common, he claimed.†   (source)
  • He's the appealing kid with the floppy hair.†   (source)
  • When the game lost its appeal, Maniac lost his power.†   (source)
  • Captain Westfall was not excessively handsome, but she couldn't help finding the ruggedness of his face and the clarity of his golden-brown eyes rather appealing.†   (source)
  • I don't know why the suggestion sounds more appealing coming out of his mouth than Karen's, but I nod.†   (source)
  • Dothraki customs had scant appeal for him.†   (source)
  • I have to wonder if his mouth has been altered to make him more appealing.†   (source)
  • It's why the Whisperer has so much appeal to Messengers — it soothes their fears, and Mr. Curtain uses that to motivate them.†   (source)
  • I'm glad being shipwrecked appeals to you.†   (source)
  • "June," he said, "I think I'm going to appeal for a different mentor tomorrow."†   (source)
  • School no longer held the exciting appeal that it had years ago.†   (source)
  • Detention does not sound appealing.†   (source)
  • This might not even be possible, given that your appeal was dismissed We need to know more about the law.†   (source)
  • Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless forms allow us to forget we're eating animals.†   (source)
  • "I am from Seton Hall University," the speaker began, "and we have a special program that some of you might find appealing.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Tita didn't even taste her food, which was bland and didn't appeal to her.†   (source)
  • Absolutely nothing about any of it appealed to me—not slow dancing, not fast dancing, not the dresses, and definitely not the rented tuxedo.†   (source)
  • She supposed paranoid types who required absolute privacy would find direct comms appealing, but even then, they would use a port or netscreen—a device that was set up for it.†   (source)
  • It was an appeal to an over-ripe guava threatening to fall from its tree and make a mess on the ground.†   (source)
  • They've got as much sex appeal as a road accident.†   (source)
  • I was much too full to even think about dinner, and though it was early in the evening, the idea of going straight to bed was very appealing.†   (source)
  • The idea of identifying three cadavers didn't appeal to Holly.†   (source)
  • A few guys in my squad were fans, but I never got the appeal of watching a bunch of guys drive in circles all day or figured out why they didn't post the articles in the automotive section of the paper instead of the sports section.†   (source)
  • Schindler renamed the company Deutsche Emalwarenfabrik, German Enamel Works, a name designed to appeal to German army contractors.†   (source)
  • "Well —" looking around the table, including me i n the appeal — "now he's just being pigheaded.†   (source)
  • Groves was an engineer by training with a graduate degree from MIT, and Oppenheimer's great insight was to appeal to that side of Groves.†   (source)
  • I ignore the fact that he has just said "we," a word that for some reason sounds amazingly appealing when pronounced with his lilting, laughing accent.†   (source)
  • Then she reconsiders and adds a final appeal.†   (source)
  • But Annabeth being who she waswell, if she could struggle through Ancient Greek architecture books and enjoy documentaries on the History Channel, I guessed the Sirens would appeal to her, too.†   (source)
  • I can certainly see the appeal.†   (source)
  • Most students avoided it anyway, and maybe the feeling of getting away from everyone else was another part of the appeal.†   (source)
  • He laughs, the chagrined laugh that even now I find appealing.†   (source)
  • And though the thought of building a home in the safety of isolation appealed to him, he had witnessed too many wrongs committed in Galbatorix's name, from murder to slavery, to turn his back on the Empire.†   (source)
  • Insurance didn't appeal to me.†   (source)
  • That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.†   (source)
  • A couple of other guys came out of the car, and they too tried to salvage the night, tried to appeal for calm.†   (source)
  • It was beautiful and so appealing.†   (source)
  • I wanted to find out why it was so appealing and likable.†   (source)
  • The idea of leaving the heat and humidity and congestion and crime of South Florida for a simpler life in the country appealed to her.†   (source)
  • That's why stories appeal to us.†   (source)
  • But if these two men found me appealing enough, they might start a bidding war, which could put me in the same position to repay my debts as if I'd been a popular apprentice all along.†   (source)
  • Of course I did not want to accept such an offer, although Lichtenbaum couldn't understand why it did not appeal to me, and was hurt when I declined.†   (source)
  • "You're going to look awful tomorrow," I warned, hoping to appeal to her vanity But Mate didn't care.†   (source)
  • If you had appealed to the tracker — or any of them — the same way you appeal to me, it would have meant a fight right there.†   (source)
  • There is something appealing to her about this prospect, to make a clean start in a place where no one knows her, as she had done in Paris.†   (source)
  • The enduring appeal of this cautionary tale suggests how deeply embedded it is in our collective consciousness.†   (source)
  • This time I'm thinking I might be able to do it by appealing to both his sense of tradition and his appetite.†   (source)
  • But back in 2003, the giant insect hadn't taken up his post yet, so the low brick building about fifteen minutes from downtown Denver didn't shout "Kid appeal!" on the outside.†   (source)
  • When we told them our appeal to the church and the Missionary Society felled, they were disappointed.†   (source)
  • But Anaander Mianaai was the final appeal for nearly any matter, and this case was certainly not routine.†   (source)
  • This seemed like an argument that would appeal to the Sisters and keep me out of the emergency room.†   (source)
  • At first she had found it appealing; then it made her uneasy; finally it made her jealous and watchful.†   (source)
  • She was sitting at her round mahogany table, working on yet another appeal for her soldiers' center.†   (source)
  • This symmetry appeals to me.†   (source)
  • His own uncertainty about his characters might add an appealing touch of ambiguity to his original ending.†   (source)
  • The NAACP began a round of appeals up through the courts, trying to get us seven students back into Central High.†   (source)
  • If Christianity had appealed to our reason, and not to other sides of us, it would not be a question of faith.†   (source)
  • Numerous researchers had appealed to HEW, asking that collection of blood and tissues be exempt from the new law.†   (source)
  • I found even the yellow of his teeth appealing to me; and I became almost hypnotized by the quivering of his lip.†   (source)
  • You want me here, don't you?" he appealed, turning to Clary.†   (source)
  • There are screen grabs of him giving his first tearful appeal for Megan's return, and next to them are pictures of killers who had also appeared on television, sobbing, seemingly distraught at the fate of their loved ones.†   (source)
  • It was also more appealing to other coaches and general managers looking for a passing game to steal.†   (source)
  • Work didn't appeal to him this Saturday morning.†   (source)
  • It was just forbidden and wild enough to appeal to her.†   (source)
  • The hunter told his story about the bird, and appealed to a higher court.†   (source)
  • Then they drew huge multicolored doves, butterflies, and bloody flowers, with hand-lettered verses by the Poet and appeals for the people to unite.†   (source)
  • It was a desperate appeal in the mountains of a foreign land.†   (source)
  • Her appeal put him in a tough spot.†   (source)
  • Public speaking appeals to me, and more opportunities were coming my way to speak at national meetings.†   (source)
  • Traditional therapy did not appeal to me.†   (source)
  • Handsome and appealing, he was instantly recognizable to thousands of fans in both the North and South.†   (source)
  • Certain that such an intricate relationship was understandable only with the complicity of his sister, he did not grant her the grace of an excuse or the right of appeal, but shipped her on the schooner to San Juan de la Cienaga.†   (source)
  • Cooking things was what appealed to Georgina.†   (source)
  • To her surprise, he was firmly in her corner, and he made a powerful appeal against institutionalisation.†   (source)
  • I thought of crawling in between the bed sheets and trying to sleep, but that appealed to me about as much as stuffing a dirty, scrawled-over letter into a fresh, clean envelope.†   (source)
  • The thought that I'd be with Coach Meyer and that I could finish my college career strong, and that we'd make something extremely special out of it—win or lose—was very appealing, and I would graduate this upcoming December.†   (source)
  • PLEAD, PERSUADE, APPEAL, BUT DO NOT THREATEN.†   (source)
  • TAHADDI AL-BURHAN: an ultimate test from which there can be no appeal (usually because it brings death or destruction).†   (source)
  • But the idea of a permanent gash across the bridge of my nose and mat burns on every pointed appendage does not appeal to me no matter how many trophies I might walk away with.†   (source)
  • "Hey, look," Frankie said, opening his palm in appeal.†   (source)
  • She knew that much of her appeal was her Zsa Zsa Gabor shtick, her accent, the flirtatious yet intelligent personality she exuded when she answered questions in TV and radio interviews.†   (source)
  • Multiple earrings don't have the same punk appeal; every forty-something divorcée on the island has half a dozen hoops in her ears.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Woodall refused to relinquish leadership of the expedition or make any kind of compromise, even after he received a letter from President Mandela appealing for reconciliation as a matter of national interest.†   (source)
  • I wanted to scoop the cats and the colored frames up and burn them and forget I had tried to appeal to somebody and look at them now making fun of me.†   (source)
  • "We're going to appeal," Dad said from his easy chair.†   (source)
  • But sure, it's appealing, what they're doing.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the dispensary that appealed to him now; it was the prospect of adding something to his supper.†   (source)
  • I'll appeal to the pragmatist in him.†   (source)
  • Will jumped out the door, then turned with a last agonized appeal to the teacher.†   (source)
  • Which is not to suggest that she is shouting at the top of her voice or making an impassioned appeal.†   (source)
  • They appealed the Court of Appeal decision to the British House of Lords and sued the police for spying on them.†   (source)
  • Despite Adam's appeal, the SEAL was cut from the program, but after that, "nobody ever doubted Adam's loyalty," says an instructor.†   (source)
  • And he felt their movement away from him, decently but definitely, with nervous, and, as it were, backward smiles; they were making it clear that he could make no appeal to them, for they did not know who he was.†   (source)
  • Equality Now launched appeals on behalf of Woineshet, but it seems unlikely that Aberew will go to prison again.†   (source)
  • Three weeks and three days of Kevin's leers [not to mention "accidental" gropes] and semirude comments about the growing appeal of my shrinking behind.†   (source)
  • Until our appeal was heard, though, and the final order came to shut us down, there was little to do but plod on.†   (source)
  • If the appeal of dancing on one of the world's most famous stages isn't enough for you, then please don't try out.†   (source)
  • "Great," I said, even though I didn't find those meatballs any more appealing than my usual cheese sandwich.†   (source)
  • The radio was on, and a voice said that fifty-six men had died on the lake tankers that were blown up and that the governor of the Netherlands' West Indies had appealed to Washington for help.†   (source)
  • So Theresa said nothing to Lorraine that night, because she had already sadly turned her face back to the evening sky in a mute appeal for guidance.†   (source)
  • The authors, as part of an appeals process, had examined four men convicted of seemingly unmotivated murders.†   (source)
  • That was a prospect that did not appeal to me for Jason's sake and, I must admit, for my own as well.†   (source)
  • It was a long shot to send a jailhouse appeal, but from where I was sitting I had nothing to play but long shots.†   (source)
  • LINDNER (TO MAMA in her reverie) Then I would like to appeal to you, Mrs. Younger.†   (source)
  • I know I cannot compete with the Countess in skills or wisdom or appeal, and I saw the way she looked at you.†   (source)
  • The basic appeal of Cedric's story was never rooted in his exceptionalism-the rise of a one-in-a-million genius or a child graced with some stunning opportunity.†   (source)
  • The little jail, which had been more or less Roscoe's home for the last few years, had never seemed more appealing to him.†   (source)
  • I quite enjoy looking out a bunch of books for her, and watching to see which one will most appeal to her.†   (source)
  • But it doesn't appeal to your sense of humour.†   (source)
  • The following day, the last day of 1776, he made a dramatic appeal to the veteran troops of the Continental Army to stay with him.†   (source)
  • Tereza and Sabina represented the two poles of his life, separate and irreconcilable, yet equally appealing.†   (source)
  • It made no difference to him that she was almost a woman, or possibly it was just that difference which made her so appealing.†   (source)
  • Everyone in pih knew that "dq" stood for "Drama Queen," and a dq proposal meant an emotional appeal.†   (source)
  • I was resolved not to give way to tears or to otherwise appeal for pity but to accept my punishment.†   (source)
  • The appealing candidate raises much more money and wins easily.†   (source)
  • 'Guilty of what?' implored the chaplain, feeling more and more bewildered and not knowing which of the men to appeal to for mercy.†   (source)
  • They promoted me to the state desk covering southwest Florida, including the Everglades, which had an almost magical appeal to me, a boy from the foothills.†   (source)
  • Then-heaven help him-he tried to be charming, to appeal to me man to man.†   (source)
  • Because the idea of that held such appeal, he reached for the phone to call her, v, lien he heard the sound behind him and turned.†   (source)
  • "I guess I can understand the appeal," I say.†   (source)
  • Such a notion would appeal to Peter, I suppose.†   (source)
  • It has a rancid taste that appeals to the Iranian palate and it serves as a cheap substitute for cooking oil.†   (source)
  • Captain Samson turned to Sir Geoffrey with his hands open in appeal.†   (source)
  • I give the word decent an extra push, hoping to appeal to some maternal sense of shame and propriety.†   (source)
  • Judging others held little appeal to me now, and when I did it, I regretted it.†   (source)
  • You're going away until the appeals finally run out and they come to stick a loaded needle in your arm.†   (source)
  • When the Supreme Court, and Jake, received the appeal, he would have his own ninety days to respond.†   (source)
  • The story goes on to say that Bobby Kennedy appealed to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to expunge those records.†   (source)
  • For some reason these did not appeal to me nearly as much as the stories of the saints and martyrs I heard a few months later when I began to study catechism with the Maryknolls.†   (source)
  • Those girls thought they had a shot with Wesley; they found him sexy and appealing — which, in a twisted way, I guess he was.†   (source)
  • "You may as well all know that I'm going," he said, "and we shall have Kehaar with us, if that appeals to you at all."†   (source)
  • After we're there, then perhaps we can locate a scholar, or appeal to the Parliament for access to the king's archives and library for help.†   (source)
  • Mr. Mompellion sought him out at his croft, trying an appeal to any shred of good left deep within him.†   (source)
  • The inherent dangerousness of the enterprise appealed to her far more than the game itself; she was not good enough at arithmetic to care whether she won or lost, there was no real joy in trying to beat the law of averages, but she derived some pleasure from deceiving Miss Blunt.†   (source)
  • Even if she hadn't been my friend's daughter and a professional, she wouldn't have appealed to me in that way.†   (source)
  • The latter was more appealing.†   (source)
  • Belle appealed to Ed to discipline the boy, to focus him back on the church and get his mind off football.†   (source)
  • He'd whined, pleaded with, and appealed to his uncle until he was blue in the face.†   (source)
  • But she appealed to me in more than a physical way.†   (source)
  • It just didn't appeal to me—and here I'd walked through the whole goddam park and looked forward to it and all.†   (source)
  • Then he blazed on, as he and Syed brainstormed a list of dozens more celebrities, until Mortenson had 580 appeals in the mail.†   (source)
  • "She's—not—no —" I can't seem to make my mouth work, so I just close it and look at him in mute appeal.†   (source)
  • The law was overturned by a U.S. circuit court, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal.†   (source)
  • She hoped no one told Nahuseresh how she'd treated the last person who'd tried to flatter her, though perhaps if someone did, the Mede would only be more confident of his appeal.†   (source)
  • We'd pass as normal and appeal to their pity.†   (source)
  • The idea really appealed to him.†   (source)
  • Classroom popularity contests could determine whether a composition had immediate appeal, all right, but was this Quality?†   (source)
  • I'll appeal to his baser instincts, of which he has plenty.†   (source)
  • This morning you answered the people's appeal and we want you to be the true interpreter of the people.†   (source)
  • I appealed to prurient journalistic sensationalism, and-although it damn near killed him-got Walther Apfel to corroborate halfway.†   (source)
  • The defense team had been working hard to put together their case for the appeal and perhaps beyond.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Mayor Mason sent out urgent appeals for any sort of emergency relief.†   (source)
  • Even if—especially if—we did not receive the death penalty, there were practical reasons not to appeal.†   (source)
  • The man, like the rest of the establishment, smelled of alcohol and sweat, and even if his wife hadn't walked in, he would have held no special appeal to the female server he was vainly trying to charm.†   (source)
  • By instinct or by study, he had an exceptionally firm grasp of the human imagination and how to appeal to it.†   (source)
  • She pulls out a tray of Florentine cookies and shows Maribel how to arrange them on overlapping strips of wax paper so they look more appealing.†   (source)
  • My parents were missionaries who met in college in California and found that their faith not only allowed them to spread Christianity but also appealed to their sense of adventure.†   (source)
  • Only Guariglia had any hope for the success of Alessandro's appeal, and even he did not allow his hope to show.†   (source)
  • Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.†   (source)
  • "You have appealed to Tash," said Aslan.†   (source)
  • But not this time, because I was so happy and because, I admit, it was a little fantasy that appealed to me too.†   (source)
  • The Realtor they had appealed to for help had paid off their overdue mortgage payments in exchange for the deed to the property.†   (source)
  • Curran, a strapping six-foot-five engineer, made a radio appeal last night, urging his five-foot-eleven fiancée to return.†   (source)
  • A bit of colour always appeals to the natives, yes, I remember putting that in my report.†   (source)
  • But he recognized the enduring appeal of battle: the chance to confront death many times, as often as there were battles.†   (source)
  • The inspector had done so, with reluctance, whereupon Dakers promptly entered an appeal.†   (source)
  • Despite Kessell's true enjoyment of the leisurely existence he had found, the thought appealed to him.†   (source)
  • But the do-gooders attempted to 'appeal to their better natures,' to 'reach them,' to 'spark their moral sense.'†   (source)
  • On these days, I have to appeal to my own strategies for self-care, pick myself back up, and keep going.†   (source)
  • But a life on horseback, in hot sun and dry wind and the nip of winter, had already begun to abrade the smooth, hard planes of youth and bless him with a pleasantly worn and appealing face that spoke of deep experience and rural wisdom.†   (source)
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