| 单词 | unsightliness |
| 例句 | Mr. Weber’s universe — one of sinewy boys in britches, solitary athletes, preppies toting footballs, models and society dames — is free, by design, of meanness, squalor and unsightliness. A Chronicler of Fashion Turns to the Heart 2010-11-25T05:10:00Z “We have had many public complaints about the trucks blocking the view between the Washington Monument and the Capitol and their unsightliness,” says Sgt. Food trucks on the Mall? Stationary vendors worry about the impending competition In the tedious process of leaving his hair be, Ashe struggles with its frank unsightliness while also reveling in an emerging look that speaks unequivocally to racial pride and a certain self-acceptance writ large. Review: Bert Ashe ponders identity and perception in 'Dreadlock Chronicles' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The current 53-year-old Penn Station sits underneath the Madison Square Garden arena and is reviled by commuters for its low, dingy corridors, lack of windows, and overall unsightliness. Scaled-down plans announced for renovating Penn Station 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s a placement that I think is fairly unique to Tern, and it avoids the unsightliness of a bulging battery pack perched on the downtube. Tern HSD P9 review: the everything e-bike 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Oahu, on the other hand, has invested heavily in wind power, despite concerns from community members about the noise and what they perceive as the unsightliness of the massive blades. Hawaii Wants to Lead the Renewable Revolution 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z “These neighborhoods have been spared the noise, disruption and unsightliness that an elevated route would bring. Why not under West Seattle?” New taxes ahead? Neighbors, politicians seek tunnels for future light rail to West Seattle and Ballard 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Now in my early 30s, I tend to regard my baldness as something of a joke, an unsightliness to be indulged. Letter of Recommendation: Balding 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It isn’t feasible that the longest postseason drought in American sports can double in unsightliness over the next decade or two? Mariners have torn their core asunder, but will it lead to a bright future? 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The Rutland Herald reports the supreme court found unsightliness does not render a building a nuisance under the law. Vermont Supreme Court says buildings have a right to be ugly 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z It had a giant lid to hide all its knobs and levers — a monument to technological unsightliness encapsulated by elegant woodwork. As Sony's Walkman Turns 35, a Look Back at Its Inception 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z And yet we endure the stiffness, unsightliness, uncomfortableness, and want of grace of the latter, with more resignation than that with which Charlotte Corday put her beautiful neck into the ‘trou d’enfer’ of the former. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z The nose, lips, cheeks, and ears are by similar processes deformed and given a most repulsive unsightliness. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z In architecture, a florid ornamentation is achieved, even at the expense of good plaster and proper surface stone, later with the resultant unsightliness. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Illness, ugliness, unsightliness of any kind, had a horror for Mr. Saltus. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Deeper and deeper the snow infolds the earth, covering all its unsightliness of death and desolation. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The problem is not just one of unsightliness, or of sea life getting caught up in plastic grocery bags or choking on plastic bottle tops or cigarette lighters. Green: Ridding the Seas of ?Plastic Soup? 2011-05-23T12:15:36Z There was a full assortment of the halt, the hump-backed, and the crippled,—all degrees of sightlessness and unsightliness. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Disorderly arrangement of the wires or cables results in disorder indeed, with increased maintenance cost, uneconomical use of space, inaccessibility, liability to injury, and general unsightliness. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Were you to approach him as he bathed in the lagoon, marveling at his unsightliness, he would beat the water like one delirious, and scream again, "No, no!" Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas With the profession against him, and public opinion against him—for the most frightful stories went abroad respecting the dangers, the unsightliness, and the nuisance which the locomotive would create—Stephenson held to his purpose. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery With the profession as well as public opinion against him—for the most frightful stories were abroad respecting the dangers, the unsightliness, and the nuisance which the locomotive would create—Stephenson held to his purpose. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The dam will be hidden from common observation, and the timber lands to be flooded will be cut so as to avoid the unsightliness usual with artificial reservoirs in forested areas. The Book of the National Parks You have that fancy which gilds the tin cans in the back yard; I have that unfortunate eye which would multiply their number by three, and their unsightliness by ten. The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch In the centre of the before-mentioned Square is the large and usually crowded Dutch Reformed Church, doomed long ago, we were told, to be removed because of its exceeding unsightliness. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back All the great blossoms of the hope that had shed beauty and fragrance over his rough life seemed suddenly to shrivel up into black unsightliness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 In his mental distress he was not thinking of his rags or his physical unsightliness. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 As he threaded his way through the narrow streets, darkness was quickly obliterating the dirt and unsightliness which was visible in the noonday. There was a King in Egypt But once, stooping, with long-armed adroitness, to unlock the lowest drawer of the table, a madness of disgust towards the unsightliness of his own person seized on and tore him. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It was in the new-born grass blades, thrusting up their delicate heads to rid the world of winter's unsightliness. The Heart of Unaga We exclaimed at the unsightliness of the huge skeleton lettering proclaiming to all the world that a maschinen-Fabrik was below. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes In many cases all that is necessary is to veneer the face sides, thus covering and hiding any unsightliness. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. The bull is then known as a “stub-horn,” and his horns increase in roughness and unsightliness as he grows older. The Extermination of the American Bison She hated the weak man for aggravating the offence of his unsightliness by allying himself with the reactionary powers that made this world as unsightly as himself. The Judge Jill herself, being vastly rested, was absolutely radiant as to looks; strange dishes and hot winds and cold causing no havoc to the skin, nor the lack of Marcel methods unsightliness to her hair. Desert Love Fleshworms.—These specks, when they exist in any number, are a cause of much unsightliness. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 No furniture brings confusion to the room; no machinery distresses the ear with its groanings or the eye with its unsightliness. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The stable and carriage-house stand on either side, in front, but at a distance sufficient to prevent unsightliness or discomfort. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 The large and stuffy unsightliness of it could not be borne. The Roll-Call The people passing by smiled at their grim unsightliness, and threw pennies to them, for which they scrambled and scratched like beasts. Kimono Some of those we saw while passing through Chinese villages were nauseating in their unsightliness, for at least thirty per cent of them were more or less diseased. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China But Madame Dufour, who was rather bolder, tempted by feminine curiosity, looked at them every moment, and no doubt compared them with the secret unsightliness of her husband. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant "In November I sometimes feel as if spring could never come again," she sighed, grieving over the hopeless unsightliness of her frosted and bedraggled flower-plots. Anne's House of Dreams And the reason of the unsightliness of these sleeves is, that the outline which they present is directly opposed to that of Nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Certain amateur political economists would straightway set down the unsightliness of this remote spot to peasant property, whereas I shall show that the causes are to be sought elsewhere. The Roof of France And at the thought of her unsightliness, she lowered her voice, and only just dared to stammer behind the passers-by: "Sir, just listen." L'Assommoir Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience. Marching Men On such occasions he would wear a pair of big blue spectacles to hide the unsightliness of his gray, filmy eyes. The House of Whispers If he was weakly, if he had any bodily unsightliness, he was exposed on a place called Taygetus, and so perished. Prince Zaleski She has no barrenness, no unsightliness, no poverty; everywhere beauty, everywhere riches. Bits about Home Matters Rash eyes, kept ignorant in their own despite, It lets not see the unsightliness they will, But paints each scanty fairness fairer still, And still deludes us to our own delight. In Divers Tones To these symptoms are not unfrequently added considerable pain, and always much unsightliness. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children At this point Sylvia had carefully obliterated two lines, blackening the page into unsightliness. Born in Exile Not even in the wet, greasy street could she find any unsightliness that afternoon. The Tavern Knight |
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