I don't know how Democrats escape the uncomely chaos of their contest.
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On the far side of this uncomely crowd, there's an even sorrier, more simpering crew of replacements.
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An uncomely cabal of 13 men patched it together in the equivalent of a subterranean bunker, with the initial hope of a vote just a week after they emerged from hiding and brought it into the light.
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Lodge broke with tradition by being the first Lord Mayor to wear a beard. Although this was considered uncomely, he was outdone by his successor Sir John White,A.M. Mimardière, 'White, Sir John (d. 1573), of London and Aldershot, Hants.
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Ginevra uses Graham shamelessly until he loses interest in her. She eventually elopes with a man named Count Alfred de Hamal and keeps in touch with Lucy via letters. Madame Beck: The owner and headmistress of the boarding school for girls where Lucy is employed. She is short and stout, but not uncomely.
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They meet Lady Pak who appears quite uncomely and walks with a limp. Moreover, it seems she only ever eats and sleeps a lot. Yi Gwi’s wife, Yi Sibaek, and even the servants constantly mistreat Lady Pak and only Yi Gwi feels sorry for her. Aware of his sympathy, Lady Pak pleads with Yi Gwi to arrange another house for her and together with her maid, Gyehwa, they move to a separate household.
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997–999 After her winning role in The Great Ziegfeld, Thalberg wanted her to play a role that was the opposite of her previous character, for The Good Earth (1937). For the part as a Chinese peasant, she was required to act totally subservient to her husband, being perpetually huddled in submission, and barely spoke a word of dialogue during the entire film. Rainer recalls that Mayer did not approve of the film being produced or her part in it: "He was horrified at Irving Thalberg's insistence for me to play O-lan, the poor uncomely little Chinese peasant."Verswijver, Leo.
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It does not matter what sum the money is; the > woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this > act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no > one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the > goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however > great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon > free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot > fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four.
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In most of England the archaic word 'Yule' had been replaced by 'Christmas' by the 11th century, but in some places 'Yule' survived as the normal dialect term. The City of York maintained an annual St Thomas's Day celebration of The Riding of Yule and his Wife which involved a figure representing Yule who carried bread and a leg of lamb. In 1572 the riding was suppressed on the orders of the Archbishop, who complained of the "undecent and uncomely disguising" which drew multitudes of people from divine service. Such personifications, illustrating the medieval fondness for pageantry and symbolism, extended throughout the Tudor and Stuart periods with Lord of Misrule characters, sometimes called 'Captain Christmas', 'Prince Christmas' or 'The Christmas Lord', presiding over feasting and entertainment in grand houses, university colleges and Inns of Court.
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A seventeenth century satirical pamphlet cookbook, The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly Called Joan Cromwell, the Wife of the Late Usurper, portrayed her insultingly as a parsimonious housekeeper "a hundred times fitter for a barn than a palace". A miniature of Elizabeth was painted by Samuel Cooper, who described her as "neither uncomely or undignified in person.". Other writers portrayed her as unattractive, including Abraham Cowley who in his play The Cutter of Colman Street (1661) put the following passage into the mouth of Cutter: "He [Worm] would have been my lady Protectress's poet: he writ once a copy in praise of her beauty; but her Highness gave for it but an old half-crown piece in gold, which she had hoarded up before these troubles, and that discouraged him from any further applications to court." Cowley's reference to the hoarding of the half-crown piece also alluded to her supposed thriftiness.
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