presentability , also: presentableness

Nothing the pianist did was objectionable, but he is not yet doing enough to bring the music beyond agreeable presentability.

The women behind the jackets are displaying a well-proportioned sense of self, propriety and presentability.

What sells an artistic product isn't the quality of the artwork; it's the presentability of the artist.

By that he meant that, given a performer's "reasonable presentability," failure is "hardly possible."

In dhoti, dust, sunburn, and sweat, I was definitely at a disadvantage when it came to presentability.

If there is one marketing strategy for which social distinctions blur, it is the imperative to enhance the presentability of the property.

Some hapless merchant skippers had seen that presentability and hoped it meant they were dealing with a civilized individual.

The application process is depicted as a game in which students and their families are expected to seek any advantage to ramp up the applicant's "presentability."

Gunning for presentability, the mainstream industry has got more clued up since the melodramas of the Yeşilçam era.

In live television, camera-ready refers to a person's presentability, such as a newsreader wearing a suit or an actress wearing appropriate make-up.

He had a surface presentability and heartiness which proved brittle and easily broken; underneath was desolation and loneliness.

In mathematics, the Scott core theorem is a theorem about the finite presentability of fundamental groups of 3-manifolds due to G. Peter Scott, .

Comeliness (COM, cost 1/2) - beauty, appearance, presentability Scores start at 10 each for base characters and are bought or sold during character generation at the listed cost per point.

As it was, it had taken all Nana's influence and persuasive ability, together with Isabella's own personality and presentability, to win the opportunity from the party machine to make this foredoomed attempt.

Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas, but this was the first time that he'd really had to study them with regard to presentability.

Mr. Schussel, who was foreign minister in the outgoing coalition of Social Democratic and People's parties, has portrayed himself as the guarantor of the presentability of the chameleonic Mr. Haider.

She considered but rejected the idea of asking the woman to remove her goggles and chin protector to see what she looked like - presentability matters in the workplace, after all - and then wrote the contact information on the lift ticket.

The piece is not classified by object, however it is more of a confusion of pieces, each "grouping is ordered in its own special way, as if different senses of order were involved, individual orders-different levels of marketing and presentability."

Although Sam and Allan worked together as a team, Mr. Newman wrote in his book that Sam "grew jealous of Allan's presentability and education, particularly his younger brother's ability to attract friends and enthrall parties with his anecdotes and piano recitals."

I mean to cast no aspersions on the presentability of anybody's wing-wang, and I certainly don't mean to imply that all uncut males look like they're from Enid, Oklahoma, but I've got to say that I prefer the look of the circumcised unit.