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no beauty

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ugly duckling
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"There are no beauty contests for women in Turkmenistan but there are for horses," said Ashir, a 70-year-old breeder.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

But by jumping on the bandwagon and feeding the machine, the resulting image loses its novelty; there is no beauty or introspection, certainly no personality.

From Salon Apr. 16, 2025

“Grief is certainly no beauty maker. My eyelids are starting to droop,” she wrote in one post, worrying that her “jowly bits” made her look not only older, but “somehow bitter.”

From New York Times May 15, 2021

“I just got into rock climbing this year, and you can masculine your way up a wall, but there’s no beauty in it,” he says.

From The Guardian Nov. 15, 2018

Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman




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