beautiful
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Example Sentences
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“Seurat and the Sea,” a scholarly and astonishingly beautiful show now at the Courtauld Gallery, and organized by Karen Serres, the museum’s senior curator of paintings, fills that critical lacuna.
The hosts erupt with laughter, saying that they’d always thought the chant was something more “beautiful and majestic.”
From Los Angeles Times
Or maybe, Elizabeth Goldring impishly suggests in “Holbein: Renaissance Master,” he meant that he’d happily take Communion if only the table were more beautiful—dressed up, say, like a Catholic altar.
She also performed a hauntingly beautiful rendition of her soul pop track A Couple Minutes as the award show, which celebrates black talent across the entertainment industry, marked its 30th anniversary.
From BBC
The first thing I noticed was a British group who weren’t known for being very beautiful, very handsome, and their roadies were definitely not.
From Los Angeles Times
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