How To Use Prettify In A Sentence
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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
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Instead, the effect is to prettify the whole thing, something for which designer William Dudley needs no second invitation.
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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
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One wants to ask: whence comes this desire to prettify thugs and murderers?
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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
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I get to leave work a little bit early today so I can run home and prettify myself.
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And finally, all cultures, I suspect, idealize and prettify some forms of sin.
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This time around, the government has once again sought to prettify the figures.
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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.
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At the same time, he doesn't prettify the conditions for the people who live there.…
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Baby sister, are you done prettifying yourself yet?
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There is no bid to prettify the objective of wanting to smash your opponents.
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And another thing, don’t think that "prettifying" by working out, wearing more makeup, wearing less clothing, and flipping your gorgeous long, sleek black hair will change her mind, Chan Dara.
She's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Sarah - Tuk Tuk Thai
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It was their chance of a lifetime to show that what architects do is of more consequence than prettifying boxes.
The Skyscraper as a Pillar of Confidence
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The circular color words in the invention are different from new square Chinese characters and widely applied, and can more prettify the social life.
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A strong argument even could be made that Krugman is wrong suggesting that the news media just wanted to "prettify" American history or that I was wrong in speculating that the distorted reporting on the Election 2000 recount was just a case of putting patriotism over professionalism.
Explaining the Bush Cocoon
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But it's not one that Obama or the Pentagon or even trillions and trillions in rare minerals will be able to prettify.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Fool's Gold in Afghanistan
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The nurses came on their daily round of washing, changing, combing and prettifying the patients before the matron's inspection.
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The bran - new moisten powder honey , strengthen the water balance inside skin, prettify and tender the skin.
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Individuals may come and go but, year after year, in an all but unvarying pattern, reporters end up demonising official enemies and prettifying their own government's crimes.
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Even the politicians didn't prettify the situation.
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However, the opposite of cynically or insensitively dismissing people's difficulties is not prettifying their behavior.
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The nurses came on their daily round of washing, changing, combing and prettifying the patients before the matron's inspection.
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The nurses came on their daily round of washing, changing, combing and prettifying the patients before the matron's inspection.
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And another thing, don't think that "prettifying" by working out, wearing more makeup, wearing less clothing, and flipping your gorgeous long, sleek black hair will change her mind,
The Delicious Life
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Panasonic has announced a new camera, the Lumix DMC-FX78, that might make those candids easier to bear: It has on-camera editing features intended to prettify your portraits.
Panasonic DMC-FX78 lets you do in-camera makeovers
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If you were square face, you'd better cut your hair asymmetrical or waves to prettify the streak of your face and shut the square jaw out. U-neck to suit square face.
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He tries to rehabilitate himself in today's column: ‘Don't prettify our history.’
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The bran - new moisten powder honey , strengthen the water balance inside skin, prettify and tender the skin.
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According to the WSJ, banks didn't want to prettify their profits.
Companies Hoarding $1 Trillion In Cash
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It will spend £194,000 this year buying interesting new pieces for the government art collection, the better to prettify government offices.
Hugh Muir's diary
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But money from regeneration schemes often end up prettifying some parts of a city, while more deprived areas are left to rot.
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Hitchens swore off smoking a couple of years back in an orgy of self-improvement concocted by Vanity Fair, whose editors talked him into writing about getting a Brazilian bikini wax and prettifying his "British teeth," which he remembers as "crooked and jagged snaggle-fangs.
An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word
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A potent feminine signifier, bustles exaggerate and prettify the rear without offering a conspicuous come-on.
