How To Use prettify In A Sentence
- It isn't always obvious who is supporting whom; the women grapple with their partners' bodies in ways we are used to the men doing with women -- and the grappling isn't obscured by all the prettifying tricks of classical ballet, part of whose magic is in the illusion of ease. Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
- Instead, the effect is to prettify the whole thing, something for which designer William Dudley needs no second invitation.
- This kind of prettifying of the present Iranian regime (i.e. rendering a service to a reactionary regime), may explain why the Iranian authorities have given the green light to the SWP leaders 'books being translated and published in Iran! In Defence of Marxism
- One wants to ask: whence comes this desire to prettify thugs and murderers?
- And otherwise, the wotworld is coloured and detailed like a Pre-Raphaelite painting, and to similar aesthetic effect—viz., the embourgeiosification and prettifying of a notional past: Archive 2010-05-01
- I get to leave work a little bit early today so I can run home and prettify myself.
- And finally, all cultures, I suspect, idealize and prettify some forms of sin.
- This time around, the government has once again sought to prettify the figures.
- There's a tendency sometimes to paper over the emotional cracks, to smooth the corners and prettify them, to paint over the distressed finish… and that's a big mistake.
- At the same time, he doesn't prettify the conditions for the people who live there.…
