Catherine, forced into a marriage to an unattractive, obese man over 30 years her senior, had never wanted to marry Henry, and conducted an affair with the King's favourite, Thomas Culpeper, while Henry and she were married.

Philip found her unattractive, and only spent a minimal amount of time with her.

" Slapper " was an obnoxious, uneducated, highly unattractive and sexually promiscuous 14-year-old single mother living on a Tyneside council estate, always donning her Kappa shellsuit.

Their meeting is the opposite of what he had hoped for in his dreams ; she is unattractive ( due to her weight and pallor ), foolish, and insipid.

The only people to complain about the arrangements were the royal servants, who found the house too small, though Queen Mary annoyed her niece by having the ancient ivy torn from the walls as she considered it unattractive and a hazard.

A performer will often take a stage name because his / her real name is considered unattractive, dull, unintentionally amusing or difficult to pronounce or spell, or because it has been used by another notable individual or because it projects an undesired image.

This marriage ends in divorce when Anne deliberately makes herself unattractive so she can be free to marry her sweetheart.

There is no evidence that Anne of Cleves deliberately made herself unattractive to Henry ; he annulled their marriage because he felt he had been misled about her appearance.

" In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked her portrayal of Margo Channing in the film as fifth on their list of " 100 Greatest Performances of All Time ", commenting, " There is something deliciously audacious about her gleeful willingness to play such unattractive emotions as jealousy, bitterness, and neediness.

She talks about her brother's suicide and how she met Tender (" a pretty weird guy ") at the mausoleum, mentioning how he reminded her of a Creedish cult member, and adding that he was extremely unattractive and she believed him to be Trevor's ex-homosexual lover.

The humour is based on the premise that the average mother-in-law often considers her son-in-law to be unsuitable for her daughter ( or daughter-in-law unsuitable for her son ), and usually includes the stereotype that mothers-in-law are generally overbearing, obnoxious, or unattractive.

The teacher is old and unattractive, but has sufficient influence over her that she leaps from a second-story window and lands in his arms.

Poirot certainly suggests that he should become involved with Elizabeth in the Postscript to Curtain, noting that Elizabeth must be reassured that she is not tainted by her sister's actions and that Hastings is still not unattractive to women, but there is no further evidence either way.

Her unattractive appearance and lack of income were contributing factors, as was her advanced age.

It transpires that Angelina was born unattractive and committed crimes to pay for her transformation into a beautiful woman ; her psychological traumas are treated when Jim captures her, but she retains her allure and her criminal tendencies and joins in the Special Corps.

The large land areas required for oxidation ponds made this type of treatment financially unattractive to the developer.

Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.

However, for his part, Hayek found this term " singularly unattractive " and offered the term " Old Whig " ( a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke ) instead.

Aristide spent years negotiating with the Convergence Démocratique on new elections, but the Convergence's inability to develop a sufficient electoral base made elections unattractive, and it rejected every deal offered, preferring to call for a US invasion to topple Aristide.

This makes waterways unattractive, reduces the abundance of aquatic plants, and can render the water unsuitable for swimming or drinking, even by livestock.

It was occasionally an effective tactic, but was unattractive for spectators and never became widely used except by a handful of specialists such as Fred Root, the Worcestershire bowler and Warwick Armstrong, the former Australian captain.

The employment issues made it unattractive for others to come to Leiden, and younger members had begun leaving to find employment and adventure elsewhere.

Aggressive marketing by BSkyB for their own digital service, Sky Digital, made the ONdigital offer look unattractive.

In the 1840s, the Great Plains appeared to be unattractive for settlement and were illegal for homesteading until well after 1846 — initially it was set aside by the U. S. government for Indian settlements.

This was extremely important for the democracy, as it gave disparate and sometimes superficially unattractive views a chance to be heard in the Athenian assembly.

The results show that the induced bias for unattractive body parts made the participants feel worse about themselves and their body satisfaction decreased and the opposite happened when they showed the participants a positive bias.

In October 2004, a Spectator editorial suggested that the death of the hostage Kenneth Bigley was being over-sentimentalized by the people of Liverpool, accusing them of indulging in a " vicarious victimhood " and of possessing a " deeply unattractive psyche ".’ Johnson had not written the leader but, as editor, took full responsibility for it.

Thankfully for Volkswagen, no British car manufacturer was interested in the factory ; " the vehicle does not meet the fundamental technical requirement of a motor-car ... it is quite unattractive to the average buyer ... To build the car commercially would be a completely uneconomic enterprise.

Higher in fiber than common wheat, emmer's use for making pasta is a recent response to the health food market ; some consumers, however, judge that emmer pasta has an unattractive texture.

In the spring of 1924, Joseph Joscak, editor of the New Yorsky Dennik, a daily Czechoslovak newspaper, began writing a column in which he extolled the beauty and pleasing climate of Florida, “ where it is possible to produce as many as three crops a year .” He wanted to attract the attention of his readers to a better way of life, for most of them were employed in hard, unattractive jobs in coal mines, steel mills, and other factories of the industrial North.

The shore area of Leith, once unattractive, is now a centre for a range of new pubs and restaurants in charming surroundings.

* Brit Awards ( ITV, presenting award for Best Video to the ' not unattractive ' All Saints ) 1998

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition described Teuffel's history as " written in an unattractive style " but " indispensable to the student " especially for its " bibliographical information ", and Warr's translation is described in the 1996 Oxford Classical Dictionary as " still useful on details ".

O ' Connell Street had declined for a number of reasons such as the proliferation of fast food restaurants and the opening of bargain shops using cheap plastic shop fronts which were unattractive and obtrusive ; the existence of a number of derelict sites ; and the destruction in 1966 of Nelson's Pillar following a bombing by former IRA members.

* Frank Kennedy: Suellen O ' Hara's former fiancé and Scarlett's second husband, Frank is an unattractive older man.

During a trip on the luxury starliner Titanic, Amy used Fry as her fake boyfriend to avoid being set up by her parents with an unattractive potential husband.

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is a 1983 novel by British feminist author Fay Weldon about a highly unattractive woman who goes to great lengths to take revenge on her husband and his attractive lover.

Finding her grossly unattractive, Edmund tries to get out of the marriage — firstly by pretending to be gay and dressing like the Earl of Doncaster, then by attempting to marry Talley Applebottom, a random peasant woman, which fails when her husband turns up at the ceremony, and then by having Baldrick surreptitiously sleep with the lascivious Infanta so that she is not a virgin.

Her husband remained a widower, despite a rich dowry offered to him by the Duchess of Maine for the hand of her unattractive daughter, Mademoiselle du Maine, a granddaughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.

One proposed remedy was the creation of an international organization whose aim was to prevent future war through disarmament, open diplomacy, international co-operation, restrictions on the right to wage war, and penalties that made war unattractive.

This meant it had to rely on short manoeuvrability tests, regularity sections and night map-reading navigation to find a winner, which made it unattractive to foreign crews.

The fifth and sixth were unattractive, but the seventh would do, and so on, down the line until seven had been selected — and he was still some ten feet ahead of us.

A judge agreed, but rather than face Ruiz in a bout that was seen as commercially unattractive, Lewis instead fought Michael Grant, considered to be a very worthy contender at the time having knocked out a series of recognized ' name ' opponents on HBO.

Her novels were romantic stories of the time and concentrated on women in the marriage market ; either beautiful and superficial, or unattractive with no hope of joining it, and the person telling the story and observing them is often an independent woman.

Although the British judges found the emphasis on written arguments unattractive, they did like the idea of pre-reading ; that the court should read the pleadings of counsel, the case being appealed and the judgment from the lower court before delivering their judgment.

Microsoft had pursued a policy of insisting on per-processor royalties, thus making competing operating systems unattractive to computer manufacturers and provoking regulatory scrutiny from the European Commission and US authorities, leading to an undertaking by Microsoft to cease such practices.

Abolitionism ( animal rights ) holds that focusing on animal welfare not only fails to challenge animal suffering, but may actually prolong it by making the exercise of property rights over animals appear less unattractive.

The humor she invoked often turned on the male characters ' desire for a woman whom the audience would perceive as unattractive.

She favors Tara in the end, causing some of Willow and Oz's fans to react angrily on the fansite message boards, leaving homophobic remarks and characterizing Benson as fat and unattractive.

As an example, research findings from Switzerland indicate that emphasis on problem drug users " seems to have contributed to the image of heroin as unattractive for young people.

The fire lasted for several days and on 20 July, much of the area was contained ; though it had become unpopular and unattractive scenery.

Research conducted by Newcastle University suggests that people ’ s desire to reside on the waterfront and enjoy recreation offered by the canal is upset by “ visually unattractive features, such as run-down derelict areas and poor design ” ( Fisher 2003 ).

A lack of success in the following seasons when Liverpool struggled to qualify for the Champions League despite substantial investment in players, with what was perceived as negative one-dimensional tactics and unattractive football, a poor youth policy, his constant mention of " turning corners " and a lack of support from fans led to Houllier's departure from Liverpool on 24 May 2004.

The resurgent Church's dogma on the Syllabus of Errors ( 1864 ) and Papal infallibility ( 1871 ) were unattractive.

The neoclassical Apollo Theatre, a work of Ernst Ziller, is situated next to the modernist building of the Hall of Literature and Art ( Μέγαρο Λόγου και Τέχνης ), while the majority of the unattractive multi-storey buildings on the west and south side of the square were constructed in the late 1960s and ' 70s.

Involuntary celibacy cannot generally be explained through external personal factors — most incels, based on inquests by researchers into the population, are not physically unattractive, and most resemble in an interpersonal sense their peers who are sexually active.

Lint on clothing is generally considered unattractive and unprofessional.