1 Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.

2 Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.

3 Their work is hard and unglamorous, and most people would find it boring.

4 They were slow, unglamorous, seagoing delivery trucks, but they were also ideal as electronic snoopers.

5 He performed that unglamorous role for Cleveland early in 1998, then was traded to San Francisco in mid-season.

6 What these companies also in common are unglamorous surroundings.

7 Realities: It is unglamorous to articulate, and complex to conduct, a centrist policy.

8 Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible , the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.

9 But fundamentally, it performs an unglamorous function in a utilitarian way.

10 Monitoring, prediction, data management and communication are the unglamorous underpinnings of a successful urban risk - management strategy.

11 This so weakened the structure that the car was withdrawn and dismantled, revealing the unglamorous Fleetwood car 141 underneath.

12 While one tale is all doomed romantic passion, the other portrays an unglamorous urge to stay alive.

13 We know that seniority, especially in finance, is a long, hard, unglamorous slog.