prettify
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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
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.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2015
It is exquisitely photographed, not in a way to prettify things but to recognize their beauty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2014
His job was not to prettify, but to warp and curdle.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2014
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
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
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.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
This has a prettified and pleasant sound—in speaking of a great, or rather of a big, nation.
From 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 by Gerald Stanley Lee
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
“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.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2021
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
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
