Many Jews from the diaspora already view Israel as spiritually impoverished and uninviting.

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The waiting room in your therapy office feels bland and uninviting?

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Once we abandon the bookstore for the virtual world we find that it is a primeval forest, dangerous and uninviting, replete with frauds and scams looking to scrape a quick buck off of unsuspecting readers.

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The members of the group, which includes an urbane young doctor, a vain and verbose prosecutor, a Gogol-esque clerk with a laptop computer, and a punctilious military officer standing guard, grow increasingly irritable as they slog through lonely and uninviting terrain.

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The atmosphere could be uninviting.

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