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I ask Witherspoon how rare it is to see a female character like Maggie, who is not about her sex appeal but rather about her particular skill.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

“He’s like an anarchist, jaded sad boy,” said Meggie Gates, 27, a freelance writer and comedian in Chicago, who explored the Grinch’s sex appeal in detail in a Cosmopolitan article earlier this month.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Diminutive and wiry, with mournful, beetle-browed eyes and a raspy tenor voice, Mr. Aznavour lacked the rakish sex appeal and ebullience of chanteurs such as Maurice Chevalier and Yves Montand.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2018

“Her publicity is focused more on her own derring-doishness and accomplishments than her sex appeal, much like a modern day Nancy Drew,” Kitty Curran tells TIME.

From Time • Jun. 23, 2016

But neither of you need expect anything,' she says, 'for the wrongs of my sisters have armoured me against the grossness of mere sex appeal.'

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon