prettify
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Leight doesn’t prettify the ugly side of our history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
Instead, they take an approach that is at once more generous and more unsparing, refusing to either condemn their characters or prettify them.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
Sometimes in a Gothic novel authors lose courage and prettify the end.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
It is partly an aesthetic thing – they are trained to prettify the plate – and partly a crisis of faith in their own ability.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2016
But I knowed I had to prettify the story even more.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
Even these startlingly grim numbers have been heavily prettified by Root, who has been papering over some tectonic faults in his team's batting.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2021
The present, commingled with this prettified past, can sometimes feel unsightly, crass even.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
Oakland has long defined itself by what it’s not, which is to say the prettified and pretentious city across the bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
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.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Cale is not interested in circumventing or prettifying anguish: let it come down.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
There are materials such as carpet squares and windowpanes for prettifying the work.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2014
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.
From Washington Post
But this is just a way of prettifying yet another dumb mistake, the one involving all that coffee.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
