prepossessing

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Even the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton wasn’t immune: “Truly prepossessing was our first view of the then mysterious island of Zanzibar,” he wrote in “Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast” in 1872.

From New York Times

McLEAN, Va. — The campaign manager spoke about her candidate’s race with a veteran’s prepossessing self-assurance.

From New York Times

She was by all accounts a prepossessing woman, with flaxen, pompadoured hair and blue eyes.

From Washington Post

Neatly depicting a prepossessing waiter, Ben Houghton also occasionally tinkles away at a grand piano and lends his tenor voice to several Coward songs such as “If Love Were All.”

From New York Times

He’s parlayed a prepossessing personality into comically self-deprecating performances as himself on the TV shows “Entourage” and “How I Met Your Mother.”

From New York Times