Some of the reasons their people fish are tried and true, which doesn't in the least detract from their appeal.

They are concerned about its conservative message, but also think their churches may have something to learn from its popular appeal.

Some critics have viewed this support as resulting from the letter's appeal to the "mob", or common people, of Ireland.

Several other starters were familiar, but that did nothing to detract from their appeal.

But rather than detracting from her appeal, snobbishness seems essential to it.

He looked away quickly from her silent appeal, but not before she had seen the look of love and pity in his soft liquid eye.

She was young, but that did not detract from her physical appeal.

They differ in this respect from a defendant's appeal which can only be heard after conviction.

He needed to distance himself from Grace's appeal.

While at times those details seem excessive, they do not detract from the book's appeal.