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单词 prettify
例句 prettify
But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z
But this is just a way of prettifying yet another dumb mistake, the one involving all that coffee. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some of those words might be freed people prettifying things, but some of it was real! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z
The terrific actress Bel Powley was in her early 20s when “Diary” was shot, but looks more like a teenager than most of the generically buffed and prettified adolescents who populate American screens. Review: In ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ a Hormone Bomb Waiting to Explode 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z
“The Alienist” isn’t prettified — the first camera push-in on an empty eye socket makes that clear — but neither is it grittily realistic. Review: ‘The Alienist’ Is a Period Piece That Missed Its Moment 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z
It also effectively documents the way that an artist preoccupied with the primacy of paint and the visceral expressions of children’s art becomes victim of a creeping tendency toward prettifying his work. A pair of critics on Karel Appel: Two ways of saying ‘meh’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z
Her voice is ragged only in the sense that she doesn’t prettify notes that emanate from the primal place where the spirit and the body unite. Music Review: Rock Songs Turned Testaments of Triumphant Soul 2011-05-25T22:18:01Z
But Denis doesn’t just prettify her actors: She lingers on their forms, their skin, stressing texture that becomes tactile. ‘High Life’ Review: Robert Pattinson Is Lost in Space 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z
Could such a movie be anything but sentimental claptrap, a prettified picture of a long-gone era when kings behaved like kings and commoners knew their place, shamelessly crafted to lure Oscar voters? "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z
The three artists write that they sought “to avoid prettifying the catastrophic change wrought by a warming planet,” but there is beauty in their depiction of a vanishing blue world. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’
In it Matt Del Rosario is joined by two X-shaped robots — they dart about the stage like alien wasps — prettified by bright, sometimes flashing, lights. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z
That plantation’s slave’s quarters, which if anything have been “prettified,” were spartan brick structures which must have reached oven-like temperatures during the hot and humid Southern summers. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z
But there's a darker side to efforts to prettify the city too, which becomes clear when we meet Sagede, whose job is to clear illegal slums. The Book Show 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z
Mark Romanek, director of the transcendent “Hurt” video, made late in Cash’s life, said he didn’t want “to prettify the whole thing.” ‘Johnny Cash: The Life’: the true story of the Man in Black 2013-12-11T18:45:44Z
Her prettified version, sapped of political power, looks like part of a low-impact exercise class in the park. Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z
Once more, violence is moved offstage and prettified. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z
Apart from calling it a svizzerina and topping it with rosemary and whole garlic cloves, they make no attempt to prettify the chopped New York strip steak. Restaurant Review: Via Carota in the West Village 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z
His job was not to prettify, but to warp and curdle. Dick Smith obituary 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z
We didn't do really anything to that town to change it or to prettify it. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z
Years ago, the only ones getting perfectly prettified were brides. Till Wrinkles Do Us Part: Introducing the Brotox Groom 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z
I could say that it is a pity that Tony Blair did not employ a ghostwriter to prettify the prose and organise his recollections more elegantly. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z
The tire sculptures, prettified with white paint on their tread patterns, making them look like gorgeous folk-art totems, are piled with candy that visitors can grab in handfuls. A Penitent Reflects on the Wilderness 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z
The Café des Sports aside, Lectoure is a typical prim and prettified French village, and in this respect is an anomaly in the Gers. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z
The reader struggles, along with Vanessa, to make sense of what is happening, to interpolate, to see the truth, with so many false accounts, so many delusions, so many efforts to neaten or prettify. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z
There was no prettified lightness or Victorian solemnity. Grant Park Orchestra captures rare Schoenberg with strong performance 2011-06-18T18:01:00Z
The show's simplicity is undeniably pleasing, but its self-conscious elegance prettifies emotions and actions, dilutes the tragedy and sends you out into the night feeling jolly rather than sobered. The Suit – review 2012-05-24T13:27:17Z
It is exquisitely photographed, not in a way to prettify things but to recognize their beauty. TV Picks: 'Happiness,' Poehler, Banksy, 'Missing,' Khruschev 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z
The two communicate by text: An sends singing videos with their face prettified by a filter; Star, a stream-of-consciousness barrage of messages and voice mail messages that usually go unacknowledged. ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’ Review: Secret Soul Mates 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z
However most women had dressed and prettified themselves before the guests were admitted. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z
Sometimes in a Gothic novel authors lose courage and prettify the end. Black Death and the Black Arts: A Deadly Fictional Duo 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z
Dressed again as a woman, Constance protests the prettified war stories recounted by an old man in Ohio and gets a lesson in the need for comforting fictions. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z
The banality of the movie’s sentiments is matched by the banality of its execution—its generically prettified and manicured cinematography and the earnest and tamped-down performances. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z
The terror he flees from is blurry, prettified: “In the far distance another series of crackling bursts, like dry leaves underfoot fragmenting to dust.” A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z
Most of these elements can be found, tamed and prettified, in “Punk: Chaos to Couture.” Art Review: ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture,’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2013-05-09T20:07:09Z
Have audiences been so conditioned by decades of prettified, fantasy nudity that the sight of an older body has become automatically shocking? Naked in New York: Gérard Depardieu strips for the big screen 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z
Money from the spoils is spent on nightclub booths and jeroboams of vodka, better to prettify their Facebook updates. Cannes 2013 roundup 2013-05-18T15:00:06Z
It proceeds from a series of chords built on minor seconds, and Mr. Bernstein could not be accused of trying to prettify them. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z
Raffish, charming and, any way you cut it, entertaining, Moore stood atop an era that saw Bond evolve from the sharp, desirable killer Sean Connery helped create into an amiable, somewhat prettified comic character. Roger Moore wasn’t a good Bond, but he was my Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z
Sometimes, however, it tries too hard and ends up prettifying the savage: red petals fall from the sky as Lucrece's blood flows from her body. The Rape of Lucrece – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-23T14:25:26Z
In some ways, the 1978 broadcast showed a company more at home in this idiom than today’s, which gives us a relatively prettified account. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z
“There is no difference. No. White nationalism is just a sort of prettified version of white supremacy,” said Reaves. What white nationalists and incels have in common: Blaming feminism 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z
He was not interested in prettifying the erotic; he analyzed sex not as fantasy but as unvarnished truth. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, especially when buttressed by flouncy, prettified packaging that seems to brand such books as fashion accessories. Resurrected from the archives: timeless women’s fiction 2013-07-19T22:54:15Z
It was a spectacle, but a minimalist one, which suited Spoon’s only slightly prettified new style. Spoon plays it both tight and loose at Lincoln Theatre
Five hours before opening night, workers were still prettifying Bellas Artes: planting greenery near the driveway, ironing the gray carpet up the steps. What “Hamilton” in San Juan Means to Puerto Rico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z
It is partly an aesthetic thing – they are trained to prettify the plate – and partly a crisis of faith in their own ability. How to eat: scotch eggs 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z
Every angular theme, scampering pizzicato line and densely ambiguous chord received its due, and the quartet did nothing to prettify Webern’s most aggressive writing. Music Review: Chiara String Quartet Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-29T21:02:00Z
The dabs of pedal steel and trumpet are also where you would expect them to be, prettifying the songs' guitar/piano foundations. David Gray: Foundling 2010-08-12T22:53:00Z
The present, commingled with this prettified past, can sometimes feel unsightly, crass even. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z
In their telling, she added, “rivers were supposed to be prettified, we were supposed to generate significant quantities of clean electricity and local communities were promised it will all benefit them greatly.” Balkan activists keep fighting for Europe’s last wild rivers 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z
Graf’s approach is admirably less enamored with the prettifying impulses so many filmmakers rely on to capture the past, and instead centered on putting us inside it. Review: 'Fabian: Going to the Dogs' a romance in the shadow of authoritarianism 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z
Even these startlingly grim numbers have been heavily prettified by Root, who has been papering over some tectonic faults in his team's batting. Why Root is 1,000 times better than the next England batter - Andy Zaltzman 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z
“New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time,” he said in his Pritzker acceptance speech. Gottfried Böhm, Pritzker-winning architect who sculpted in concrete, dies at 101 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z
When the highest court begins prettifying yesterday’s opinions to conform to today’s ideological delicacies, the question becomes: When will today’s pandemic of nonsense stop? Opinion | When will all of the shrill nonsense stop? Perhaps when people are bored enough. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z
The announcement was greeted with derision by some Trump critics, who on Twitter compared Melania to Marie Antoinette for prettifying the garden amid a pandemic. JFK created the modern White House Rose Garden. Now Melania Trump wants to restore it. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z
Instead, they take an approach that is at once more generous and more unsparing, refusing to either condemn their characters or prettify them. The Safdie Brothers’ Full-Immersion Filmmaking 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z
But Vidal-Naquet never prettifies or sentimentalizes what he shows us; he simply refuses to draw easy boundaries between love and lust, the emotional and the transactional. Review: A sex worker gets his close-up in the jagged, moving French drama ‘Sauvage/Wild’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z
He considered Mr. el-Sis’s grand plan to prettify his shabby neighborhood. What to Do About Cairo’s ‘Uncivilized’ Buildings? President Orders Epic Paint Job 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z
Oakland has long defined itself by what it’s not, which is to say the prettified and pretentious city across the bay. Kamala Harris celebrates Oakland, but the feeling isn’t necessarily mutual 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z
We become ashamed of what is inside us, however we prettify it up. If young women are dying of shame about their bodies, we need a rethink | Suzanne Moore 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z
Many apartment doors are posted with repossession orders, but others have been prettified with stencils or shells and pieces of driftwood. An unsolved murder at Italy’s most notorious tower block 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z
Some are fairly easy to grasp, such as the way cinematographer Mike Eley shoots and prettifies the landscape, all lovely purplish sunsets and golden wheat fields. Jessica Chastain plays the artist who painted Sitting Bull in the inert history lesson 'Woman Walks Ahead'
She decided to prettify the lyrics, which had expanded to include such lines as, “We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree.” Recognize That Tune? It’s the Northern Accent of Georgia Football 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z
But no one in the media – or anywhere else – should see themselves as responsible for prettifying hate speech or the people who use it. Milo Yiannopoulos's draft and the role of editors in dealing with the far-right | Jeff Sparrow 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z
Halls, hotel rooms, even chairs can be prettified for an occasion and used to deliver certain messages. The Department of Justice backs a baker who refused to make a gay wedding cake 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z
Cale is not interested in circumventing or prettifying anguish: let it come down. John Cale’s Inventive Retrospection 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z
Despite all appearances to the contrary, Donald Trump is just a traditional conservative, they say as they prettify venality and sanitise hatred. World in crisis or back to normal soon? I think I know... | Nick Cohen 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z
A court blocked the new owner’s attempts to prettify the courtyard with a new shed for the rubbish bins, and by insulating the walls. 'No bling in the hood ...' Does Berlin's anti-gentrification law really work? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z
It is something we are supposed to look away from; even our language looks away, euphemizes, prettifies. What I Learned From Writers in Their Final Days 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z
The void behind his prettified rhetoric was stunningly revealed in Saturday night’s debate. What Marco Rubio’s robotic debate performance reveals 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z
Science doesn’t need to be cleaned up or prettified to be accessible; in fact, the best way to learn it is by getting your hands dirty. What We Owe the MythBusters 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z
“We do not want to prettify anything, but we want to stop the decay,” he said. Nuremberg Nazi Site Crumbles, but Tricky Questions on Its Future Persist 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z
The two countries also share resentment at what they see as Japan’s efforts to prettify its grisly war record, and suspicion at moves by Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, to reinterpret Japan’s pacifist constitution. Central Park 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z
The wit here lies in the prettified, high-minded formulation of an ugly, low thought: that Yoffe wishes her reader’s grandmother would just die already. Trump, the Insult Comic Dog 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z
And now, perhaps, it has ridden in on the coattails of the iconoclastic trend in the modern study of fairy tales, with Disney’s prettified versions being execrated by feminists and queer-studies writers. The Truth About Animal Stories 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z
“I was a pushover for the prettified black-and-white ‘truth’ they served up.” Günter Grass, German Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z
There are materials such as carpet squares and windowpanes for prettifying the work. Minecraft: here's one I made earlier 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z
His mission, in American parlance, was to put lipstick on a pig, to prettify what remains a dire situation in the public finances. George Osborne master of the game of divisive politics 2013-06-26T20:12:21Z
We’re sympathetic creatures, but not in the prettified way we usually use that word. Bombs, Instincts and Morals: Why Heroes Risk Everything for Strangers 2013-04-16T19:05:22Z
A report in the official Xinhua news agency, said "the Dalai Lama clique clamorously prettified such activities." IHT Rendezvous: In Beijing, Fire Brigades at the Ready 2012-11-13T04:39:06Z
Not just prettified graphics on the same engine, but a from-the-ground-up style rebuild. 5 Ways TaleWorlds Could Make 'Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord' Better Than The Original 2012-09-28T17:58:16Z
A combination of obfuscation, prettifying, magical thinking, and—this is pivotal—an assumption that women are so dumb and incurious that we won’t note what they are saying and doing.  Akin is the GOP 2012-08-22T14:00:00Z
In sequences like these, you may regret the film’s mad- scientist trappings, which were clearly designed to break out of the prettified Disney/National Geographic nature-film mold. Marauding Ants Make “Hellstrom” Best Bug Movie Ever: DVD Review 2012-02-21T15:27:32Z
Old-fashioned bosses see their role as prettifying the office and forming a pool of potential marriage partners for male employees. Schumpeter: Land of the wasted talent 2011-11-02T18:18:04Z
If the video is legitimate — and there's nothing so far that credibly suggests it's not — there's no way to prettify or justify what it captures. Animal Cruelty: New Undercover Video Links Major Retailers to Barbaric Handling of Pigs 2011-06-29T21:50:00Z
It would be nice to see everything not only prettified, but scaled up. 5 Ways TaleWorlds Could Make 'Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord' Better Than The Original 2012-09-28T17:58:16Z
The father had indulged his passions; no “anthropology” could prettify this tale. Osama Bin Laden: The Specter 2011-02-12T23:38:14Z
The cult of personality built around the 40th President has prettified his memory even more than the historical softening all past presidents enjoy. NASA Accidents: Challenger Space Shuttle, Apollo 1 Fire and Their Legacies 2011-01-28T07:05:00Z
That, however, is not to say organic growers don't also try to prettify their produce before revealing it to the world. What's So Great About Organic Food? 2010-08-25T08:35:00Z
Gabrielsson says, for example, that Christopher MacLehose, a legendary editor and publisher who acquired the books in England and gave them their catchy titles, needlessly prettified the translation. The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson 2010-05-22T07:40:00Z
Today it is a somewhat prettified test that can still petrify the contestants. Last 3 Holes at Sawgrass Still a Thrilling Finish 2010-05-06T00:45:00Z
I must send him a little box at Christmas,—some little things to trim up his new house and prettify it. Hildegarde's Harvest
That’s really what I came for, to prettify it a little. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted
"You have such a way of prettifying things," said Mary Beck; "there, the chocolate pot is beginning to boil already." Betty Leicester A Story For Girls
That the prose should have been prettified and platitudinised, decorated and diluted into the verse is a possibility which we know to be not only possible but likely, from a thousand more unfortunate examples. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
This has a prettified and pleasant sound—in speaking of a great, or rather of a big, nation. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak
Everything was prettified and elaborated until there was a porcelain smoothness and a photographic exactness inconsistent with true art. A Text-Book of the History of Painting
It is not the function of the biographer any more than it is that of a dentist to prettify his subject. The Art of Letters
"Let no one think that they can force me to prettify my types," he said. Jean Francois Millet
A true literary consciousness—national to the centre—seems gradually to be forming out of all this disguising and prettifying, this penumbra of half-culture. The Glories of Ireland
It has been done, but it is hard to prettify. We Can't Have Everything
She made it as convenient and comfortable and as pretty as she could, but the house was bare to austerity, so that her attempt at prettifying was rather a failure. A Daughter of the Land
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