| The story transpires in rural Georgia, and Green pulls the audience into this uninviting setting from the first frame. |
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| If the room is uninviting or uncomfortable, you'll soon be hearing excuses of why they are leaving a little earlier. |
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| Visitors are instead corralled through a narrow passageway into the uninviting realms of the zoo shop. |
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| However, as a newcomer to the area, I was disappointed how drab and uninviting the area in front of City Hall is at night. |
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| What excuse though did the main acts have for offering such a humourless performance, particularly on such an uninviting afternoon? |
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| Failure in this regard may mean that Bulgaria's delegation may find Prague in November to be a cold and uninviting place. |
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| The silvery, zinc-plated steel facade is nearly windowless, initially presenting a rather uninviting appearance. |
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| But because they're often paved, bricked, or tiled, they have a tendency to look cold and uninviting. |
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| Composers are writing this way, although I confess that, in the abstract, I find this prospect uninviting and, indeed, rather unsettling. |
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| She could see a forest surrounding the town, dense and thick, full of dark, tangled trees and thorns that looked scary and uninviting. |
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| In other cases, materials are out of date, uninviting or inappropriate for their target audience. |
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| Like me, I am sure many of you have had to enter a building from a loading dock or an uninviting alley lined with garbage bins to scent the way. |
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| Streets with long expanses of blank walls are uninviting and can deter pedestrian activity. |
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| We know people tend to take escalators and elevators, and that stairs are often difficult to find or poorly lit, uninviting or unsafe. |
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| The challenge was to make an uninviting 1970s complex worthy of its new role as an institutional headquarters building. |
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| Both sides were closed off by large, steel mesh fences with barbed wire at the top, curling around the top support pole in a disarranged, uninviting pattern. |
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| Trash collectors will not touch ocotillo — it is too invincibly thorny — and my trimmings lay in an uninviting heap on the dusty, stony caliche. |
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| The city, sixty-five kilometres from the shores of Lake Baikal, was dark, cold, and uninviting. |
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| A large site, yet nicely set out so it avoids looking too large and uninviting. |
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| Canadian tank and maintenance crews have done wonders in making the tanks operational in such an uninviting environment. |
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| Security is a difficult thing to turn into an everyday habit, often considered as uninviting and unproductive. |
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| The ICTR is largely inaccessible to the women's community, as well as uninviting. |
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| Now, the greenish water in a pool at a spa seems even more uninviting, taking on the appearance of an unidentified liquid. |
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| Gone are the days of static and limited information on an uninviting Internet page. |
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| If a document looks crammed and uninviting, your reader may skip over the text completely. |
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| Access is either by a footbridge over a river or an uninviting ford. |
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| Second,tourism industries worldwide never advertise the uninviting or unpalatable side to their tourist destinations. |
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| This is also manifest in our office, which I find stiflingly hot all year round, as do the other foreigners, but the Japanese staff find cool and uninviting in winter. |
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| Teachers like this never question the uninviting atmosphere in their classroom that may incite such behavior, or inspire a lack of English language usage. |
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| This gets a little bigger fairly quickly, and passes a couple of uninviting junctions, before entering a wide bedding passage with a stream flowing through it. |
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| Now what would otherwise have been a uninviting troglodytic restaurant is transformed into what promises to become a popular meeting place for the city's chattering classes. |
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| While the communal hallway was a little uninviting, the flat itself was bright and spacious and, following Katharine's feedback, now has egg cups. |
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| This really does look uninviting after dark, and is used by many more people, whilst this additional lighting would benefit both the school and the leisure centre entrances. |
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| The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless. |
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| If we come up to the crest of life at sixty or sixty-five without plans, we may find ourselves gazing out upon a future that is deadly dull, flat, and uninviting. |
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| Although the plastic paneling covering most of the surfaces was hard and uninviting, you begin to appreciate how easily crayon, chocolate pudding or an airborne peanut butter and jelly sandwich would wipe off. |
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| The existing hardscaped and uninviting spaces were transformed with a variety of colourful and textured pavers, trendy outdoor furniture, and generous planting areas to provide a vibrant atmosphere. |
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| For 2007, a series of minor interior improvements has enhanced the spacious cabin, yet plenty of low rent plastics and uninviting flat surfaces continue to exist. |
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| They concluded, not surprisingly, that people are not ready to give up on books and that they are not ready to give up on libraries, but that they find most libraries stuffy, confusing, and uninviting. |
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| Larson and his colleagues are concerned that instead of being well marked, stable, and supported by the community, these pathways may sometimes be hazardous, unpredictable, and uninviting. |
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| From my CF-18 cockpit I have spent a lot of time looking at vast expanses in the north, the uninviting waters of the Beaufort Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| As one drives through Joshua Tree National Park in the comfort of an air-conditioned car, the large stretch of Southern California desert may seem parched and uninviting. |
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| Progress reports, general meetings, conventions: playing with figures or concepts to provide information is often difficult, uninviting and sometimes hardly understandable. |
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| Scott Avenue was previously illuminated with cobra head, high pressure sodium lamp fixtures that created uninviting yellowish puddles of light and left some areas dark. |
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