On a block lined almost entirely with unprepossessing commercial and industrial buildings, it is an unexpected survivor, a living echo of another era.

Though the Shah had taken virtually every man in the city with him, he had left a company of armed men to guard this unprepossessing building.

The unprepossessing building owes its name to the sundial (Sonnenuhr) located in the gardens to the south.

As soon as he entered the unprepossessing concrete-block building, he could feel the data rush.

A modest sushi bar with nine seats and two tables on the second floor of a unprepossessing building?

This large, unprepossessing building of rough-hewn stone had all the appearances of a farmhouse.

It was an old, unprepossessing building with brown paint peeling off the exterior.

In the background was a flat-roofed, two-story pale brown building, and behind that rose more unprepossessing buildings.

It's easy to pass by - an unprepossessing one-story white building along a commercial strip.

Pass under a hand-painted sign and into a narrow three-story building so unprepossessing it gives no hint that you've arrived at the mecca of hair.