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telegenic
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Examples
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Or, to mix metaphors, the two hunks of bread of this literary sandwich are hewn from his Channel 4 Monarchy series, while the filling is the missing bit: the decidedly untelegenic dark ages.
Crown & Country by David Starkey - review Charles Spencer 2010
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Hodgman: Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
Q&A;: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise Adam Rogers 2008
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Meanwhile, a radical and very untelegenic black journalist (Giancarlo Esposito) has uncovered dark deeds behind the Roberts campaign and can't get anyone to listen.
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Perot had a staggering array of disadvantages: The absence of even a bare bones third party infrastructure, no political experience whatsoever, an untelegenic face and somewhat high pitched (and grating) voice, a running mate who seemed simultaneously authentic and buffoonish, and a continually prickly reaction to the prying and publicity that comes with any serious bid for the White House.
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This year the Republicans have a decidedly uncharismatic and relatively untelegenic candidate pitted against a fairly unexperienced Democrat who nevertheless knows how to give a good speech and motivate the masses.
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Hodgman: I do believe that comedy offers an avenue to television and film careers to normally ugly and untelegenic people that great drama does not.
Q&A;: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise Adam Rogers 2008
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As untelegenic as links golf sometimes is, British Open courses are actually rich in features and personality.
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He was untelegenic, a rumpled, sometimes glowering figure prone to firing out machine-gun fusillades of statistics, with a "face like a wet winter's morning in Fife," according to the late Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary.
Who Is Gordon Brown? Freedland, Jonathan 2007
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The untelegenic Mr. McClellan, his hair in retreat, was the inheritor of a tradition that began in 1937, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt hired journalist Stephen Tyree Early to be the first Presidential press secretary.
Live and Direct, Tony Snow Is the New Face���and Hair���of the White House 2006
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The untelegenic Mr. McClellan, his hair in retreat, was the inheritor of a tradition that began in 1937, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt hired journalist Stephen Tyree Early to be the first Presidential press secretary.
Live and Direct, Tony Snow Is the New Face���and Hair���of the White House 2006
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