Tubby and unlovely, with hard wooden seats, the ferry boats have plied these waters since the late 19th century.

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Such a society may be unlovely to many people but there is no reason why it cannot reach full employment.

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With its "high unlovely body and pugnacious snout, " the Model T became the object of jokes, songs and a new American folklore.

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Nonetheless, in between the two extremes of doing nothing and pulling the plug on unlovely regimes there exists a range of middle options.

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At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.

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Unlovely Rose (Toni Collette) is a lawyer living alone in Philadelphia.

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Driving to the far end of the base, I reached an unlovely theatre that Springsteen and Jon Landau, his longtime manager, had rented for the rehearsals.

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Savannah's port is almost 20 miles (32km) inland on the Savannah River, far from the city's charming Victorian centre, in the distinctly unlovely suburb of Garden City.

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Some of the best coverage of indigenous affairs, to use that unlovely phrase, is to been found in the pages of the Australian, and the paper made much of the running during the wrongful detention of the Indian doctor, Muhamed Hanif.

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