And when desirability as a friend or wife is also bound up in prettiness, it reinforces that message. From Wordnik.com. [ProWomanProLife » Modesty, nudity, identity] Reference
They descend into simple prettiness, which is simple insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Her prettiness was the kind that wins at once and keeps you ever after. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
The reason of the prettiness is a kind of harmony between the little house and its surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [The Country Doctor] Reference
This speech, Bob., thou wilt call a prettiness; but the allegory is just; and thou hast not quite cured me of the metaphorical. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Yet the little sitting-room had an aspect of simple rustic prettiness, which is almost pleasanter to look at than fine furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
Something about the pose, the look, the "prettiness" of the characters in that particular photo. From Wordnik.com. [New Star Trek XI Stills Released] Reference
James Fallows heard an "eloquence of thought" that transcended the "prettiness" of more famous orators. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Kilgore: Barack Obama and the Fear of God] Reference
She put great emphasis on 'prettiness' and taught my sister and I that the most important thing for a girl was to be pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Silverstein: Pretty Is What Changes - Interview with Author and TV writer Jessica Queller] Reference
Here, the "prettiness" that in his proper person Buz deplored and abhorred came in useful. From Wordnik.com. [The Ffolliots of Redmarley] Reference
The "prettiness" factor is the only reason Ive stayed with Windows Media Center over the years. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
"Well, your prettiness is a part of you -- an appropriate part, I think, but only a part after all. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
Romance is hardly evident for it is the scene itself with its rustic prettiness which is chiefly stressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry] Reference
She possessed that peculiar prettiness which is so often seen in England, and which is rarely seen anywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel Ray, volume 1] Reference
Perhaps the issue is our definition of beauty? surely the majority of cosmetis are not orientated around beauty but 'prettiness'?. From Wordnik.com. [ThirdWay Advertising Blog] Reference
They excuse its follies; they adore its prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
Pretty, but I wasn't really thinking about prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi Blues] Reference
There is no mere prettiness in Mr. Abercrombie's writing. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
But prettiness alone doesn't count for much on a newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
"Yes," said Mrs. Irving, smiling at Betty's flushed prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Lily's prettiness made the people in the street turn round to look at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
To turn all the prettiness and potential into the hard currency of silverware. From Wordnik.com. [Premier League preview No1: Arsenal] Reference
They looked strangely pretty, with yet a melancholy prettiness, as they floated along. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
She was pretty in her way, but in this place her prettiness could only have one conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference
All girls were of an even prettiness to him, and Huldah Spiller was a pleasant little thing. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
I am not interested in creating prettiness; what interests me is the light that fire creates. From Wordnik.com. [Making Art Of Light And Fire] Reference
Her mouth was almost too large, but even that could not spoil the essential prettiness of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
One was Blaisette, a vision of dainty prettiness in a new blue gown; the other was Dominic Le Mierre. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
He lost his chubbiness and his pink prettiness and became thin and wiry, brown faced and brown limbed. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
One never knew whether Clara had not more behind her smooth prettiness than ever she brought to light. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
But for her constant obtrusiveness, it is doubtful whether Jim would have noticed her prettiness at all. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
For the first time he would see her at her best; might not her prettiness -- bah! the thought disgusted her!. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Her eyes were very large, and because of her eyes she carried within her the perpetual potential for prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [Heavenly Blue Morning Glory] Reference
Among the middle classes and the common people, the ugliness is more pleasant and sometimes becomes a kind of prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Catching the essence of Bernadette Peters, he sees beyond her "prettiness ... and saucy verve" to a "purity that ... approaches pathos.". From Wordnik.com. [Showbiz: Clurman Takes The Stage] Reference
Mrs. Selwyn was a slender, colourless woman, possessing the remnants of what must at one time have been an ineffective kind of prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
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