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In 1983 he produced an elegant book with the unprepossessing title The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , which both explained and demonstrated certain rules for presenting numerical data in a graphically arresting manner.
The church itself is an unprepossessing reconstruction after a devastating fire of 1771, but the Brancacci Chapel with the great Masaccio frescoes miraculously survived intact.
In a nearby side street, Santa Prassede is unprepossessing from the outside but enchanting in the intimacy of its interior.
A meaningless job, which anyone could have done, an undistinguished education, a home like any other in a crushingly ordinary neighborhood, a daily commute, no particular vices, and nothing to speak of in the line of contact sexuality--a white, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class life which, in external respects, was lived by innumerable unmarried sons answerable to family responsibilities, and marked by the lonely longings of a protracted virginity probably not all that unusual at the time, especially when, in Cornell's case, there were no riddling princesses to overcome his natural shyness and unprepossessing looks.
Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy.