Passing, like prettiness, is a privilege; passing, like prettiness, can also be a peril, if someone believes we are deceiving them.
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Well, in many ways, that prettiness is precisely the point.
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The photos' prettiness becomes pathological — diplomacy distilled to its empty aesthetics.
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In essence, she has crossed a line from prettiness to power.
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The cultural obsession with prettiness remains, but the standards are even higher.
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Likewise Ms. Lane's noble prettiness has never looked subtler or more endearing.
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I do not mean by charm, prettiness, but an appreciation of beauty.
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It's a contrast to the American prettiness that Jessica can never escape.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked "female".
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For anyone expecting cozy Impressionistic prettiness, these are an invigorating inclusion and surprise.
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But vases of flowers on tables have been cursed by their own prettiness.
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The main rule of thumb is achieving a balance between practicality and prettiness.
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There is a primness, a cuteness, to the place, a simple if noxious prettiness.
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Without them, it's just a lot of prettiness and excess on the red carpet.
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Weighing the merits of his performance is subjective; I'm declaring his prettiness objective fact.
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To counter the prettiness of the gown, I opted for a more edgy look.
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The thing is, it never really implodes, courtesy of pace, and pure, lurid prettiness.
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Mr. Forsythe totally ignores the Atlanta edge in Abra's "Vegas" in favor of ballerina prettiness.
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This can't be an accident, the inverse relation between prettiness and deliciousness at Café Altro Paradiso.
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Many people's first interaction with a young girl is to compliment her cuteness, prettiness or clothing.
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Still, Mount Amiata had nothing of the well-groomed prettiness that tourists associate with the region.
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These elfin creatures have a delicate prettiness that suggests a cross between supermodel and baby llama.
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BEACON, N.Y. — Sam Gilliam, an abstract painter of 85, proves that optical prettiness can have depth.
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Her aesthetic can be anarchic, and it frees her to focus on specific images rather than prettiness.
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"It's not like it moves you way up on the scale of prettiness," one woman told Quartz.
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Its avatars have the same bland, glossy prettiness of Second Life residents, but they're far more detailed.
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Eyelashes on the spring and summer runways took the latter course, as prettiness tipped toward the spooky.
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Kira loves films like "Sleeping Beauty" in which the central characters' powers are linked to their prettiness.
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" She explains that she was suddenly accepted, yet "did nothing to earn the attention my prettiness granted me.
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It trades more in post-rock prettiness than it does in primal fury; it's more sunset than midnight.
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But it also has substance—the game's prettiness lures you in, but the awesome gameplay keeps you playing.
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Who knows how a 6-year-old would hear her mother's quibbling with a stranger over her prettiness?
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Photographs flatter him: there he is, with his bright, taut prettiness, delicately clenching the muscles of his face.
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This kind of prettiness might work in a three-minute song setting or a nine-minute concerto movement.
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Born into penury and disgrace, Becky pulls herself up by her corset-lacings, assisted by prettiness and wiles.
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"You can come home from a crazy shift to this prettiness and just switch off," Ms. Classen said.
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There's a wistful prettiness to their tunes—in the vein of Kings of Convenience or even early Fleet Foxes.
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His brow is bisected by a deep furrow, and his former prettiness has weathered into something much more interesting.
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" What struck me at his most recent restaurant, Café Altro Paradiso, was "the inverse relationship between prettiness and deliciousness.
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The child smiled at the new self in the mirror, this bright face with its velvety scalp, the last prettiness gone.
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"Christmas Together" keeps the pealing prettiness and classical mash-ups, but in much larger formal arrangements that usually turn toward popera.
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There's protest behind the prettiness of "Omoiyari," the fourth studio album by the songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi, who records as Kishi Bashi.
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Any prettiness they possessed was incidental to their practical purpose and noted only in passing, en route to the boiling pot.
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Ms. Berkeley, who brings to mind the young Winona Ryder, is a piquant study in poised prettiness about to crack open.
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"Play" here designates by turns novelty, delight, sport, games, prettiness, music of any kind, gambling, magic shows, spectacles, illusions and fashion.
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Girls today grow up knowing not just that prettiness is required of women, but that the standard for beauty is near perfection.
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If murdering and yelling are the apotheosis of male power in the gaming imagination, inoffensive prettiness is the apotheosis of female power.
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In a cinematic landscape littered with choppy, sloppy action climaxes, John Wick's violence stands out for its prettiness, its precision, and its patience.
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In his early days, Mr. Chang served the kind of food chefs like to eat: intense, animalistic, O.K. with messiness, indifferent to prettiness.
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We've done all of the budgeting legwork for you, and you'll be happy to know that there's plenty of prettiness to be found.
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"Grace Action" uses 12 performers; I find it a dance of pretty surface rather than of human depth — but the prettiness is exceptional.
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The album is their response to the Paris that exists out there in reality, removed from the picture postcard prettiness of the Louvre.
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Good. Great audio is hard to sell because it doesn't lend itself to benchmarking or obvious prettiness like, say, a better graphics card might.
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They're worried because they know that being pretty matters for girls, and that in this culture, thinness is a key component of that prettiness.
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Something about Ms. Davis's refined prettiness and her undisguised, unapologetic liberalism doomed her to that ignominious loss to Greg Abbott, 59 to 38 percent.
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" There is a memorable description of a mother whose "cheeks sagged as though her prettiness had been pawed off her face by her children.
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The wooded mountains surrounding it, though, are rich in all kinds of desirable rocks, some valued for their industrial uses, some for their pure prettiness.
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"A man must look pretty," according to Lord Harley (Nicholas Hoult), one of the foremost statesmen of the day, but the prettiness is deliberately overdone.
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Salisbury steak is such an instance: a good idea and a good name, though its reputation as a TV dinner has stained the prettiness somewhat.
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Most dishes are composed with speed and efficiency, rather than prettiness in mind — no wasted movements in the kitchen, no superfluous components on the plate.
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You can O.D. on the tongue-in-cheek prettiness of his painting's soft-focus glow or marvel at the discreetly dysmorphic bodies of his subjects.
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In his early days, Mr. Chang used to serve the kind of food chefs like to eat: intense, animalistic, okay with messiness, indifferent to prettiness.
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Richness reigned on Erdem Moralioglu's runway, too, which married the sumptuousness of Ottoman dress, its rich fabrics and gilded details, with a daintier, English prettiness.
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Likewise, Mr. Gouez said Moët Ice is blended with base wines that have more flavor intensity, prettiness on the nose and acidity, to anticipate the dilution.
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He's able to do the same on "Scar Tissue," compiling brief moments of romance and prettiness, hanging them all together and seeing what comes of it.
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"I've Been So Lost For So Long" has that same resonance, the steady, bright guitar, the prettiness through gentle chaos, that made—still makes—American Football intriguing.
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Case in point is the Revero's solar roof panel, which, for all its prettiness is much more about the image it conjures than the performance it brings.
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She is at turns both delusional and self-aware enough to know that prettiness is a facade, and that portion control and exercise won't heal a broken heart.
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"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" is written with a stately but unremarkable prettiness; it is not a book that will make its mark for reasons of style.
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Inside the kitchen, similar patterns are collaged on the wall with many others — overlaid, clashing, apparently as random as strips of papier mâché, yet oddly classical in their prettiness.
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But prettiness alone has never been enough to secure a spot on a top-tier best-dressed list (like the ones compiled by Vogue, Vanity Fair, and New York magazine).
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The elephant is handsome, seen in a certain light, but we're talking about prettiness here, so focus on the lilies and try to block out the image of the elephant.
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Real life is full of flaws and imperfections, and there's this forced prettiness to pics coming out of Samsung phones and the new iPhones that I just don't find appealing.
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He says that he's always admired the jazz-classical pianist Keith Jarrett, whose piano work shares a forlorn prettiness with the music that Burr worked on for The Sims soundtrack.
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There were self-contained arias here, including one that ended neatly enough to garner applause — a rarity in Prototype-style contemporary opera — as well as moments of disarming pastoral prettiness.
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The smudgy, grimy urban landscape — emergency rooms, fast-food restaurants, blocks of modest, over-mortgaged, squeezed-together houses — is shot (by Sean Price Williams) with a fastidious avoidance of prettiness.
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She could rest on mere prettiness, the fact that the camera loves her, but instead she showcases the roiling emotions inside, creating people who are ambitious, weird, sad, angry, and inexplicable.
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Michelle knew that at least some of her success was about her prettiness and her willingness to gather her salespeople and take them out for drinks with male executives near headquarters.
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At their center, this so-called Mozart of chess — he became the world champion in 2013 at age 22 — is reduced to flying fingers and a face of boy-band prettiness.
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And though I can never resist "Needed Me" and its infectious chorus, or the raw-edged prettiness of "Kiss It Better," it's always been "Work" that stood out the most to me.
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She's still attractive, of course – literally every superhero is a stone-cold hottie, even the ones who would never deign to care about such things – but her prettiness is framed as incidental.
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There's more to sift through here than on, say, 2011's Strawberry or 2007's Left for Dead, both of which led with their prettiness and invited you in on that basis.
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Some women have embraced the straightforward prettiness of the trend, adding a wicker basket and clog sandals; others have paired them with Dr. Martens or Air Force Ones and a knowing scowl.
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While the cinematic approaches are different, there is a common thread: Using the body as a force that steers clear of prettiness in favor of something more primal, raw and even ferocious.
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It's filled with with prettiness, which I know sounds weird to say, but there's very few games that are like just constantly pretty, and very few sci-fi games that aren't gritty.
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It's the fantasy of finding an escape hatch from the things the world demands of women — the enforced prettiness and sweetness and sexual availability — and turning the rejection of those tropes into power.
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Ben Brantley, The New York Times: Alexander Dodge's sets, fleshed out by photographic projections by Aaron Rhyne, have a pop-up book prettiness, though they often seem stranded between two and three dimensions.
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If occasionally the theatricality of the clothes became overly cloying, and you wished for a streamlined techno-clad surfer dude to show up (or perhaps Jack Sparrow), they still had an alluring prettiness.
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"I haven't been interested in prettiness for a long time, and the world doesn't look saccharine and innocent to me anymore," Chung, who launched her eponymous brand in 2017, said in a statement.
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I was embarrassed by how easily I'd conformed to cookie-cutter "prettiness" ideals that favored well-behaved, sleek, shiny lengths over my unpredictable but nonetheless beautiful curls that had a mind of their own.
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There's an earnest, feigned innocence to Richard D. James Album, achieving a balance between the music-box prettiness of classical music repackaged for children and still-innovative rhythms that crashed into walls like test dummies.
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He made it all the way through college without a girlfriend, yet he doesn't bother to resist the advances of the bold and frivolous Nina, whose appeal, beyond her prettiness, Ms. Williams doesn't make clear.
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I also have enough experience on the playground to know that little boys are disproportionately asked what they like to do, while girls are more often reduced to their clothes or hair or general prettiness.
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Ms. Soper performed the second selection, as an allegory of Reason, in which a neo-Classical piano part adds arch prettiness to a text that cleverly spins variations and puns on the same key words.
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"Madiba Riddim," cascading through a lilting guitar hook that shares its trebly tone and bittersweet prettiness with several African pop genres, also showcases Drake's gentle soulfulness as a singer responding to rhythmic nuance and kinetic motion.
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Add sonic gaps, jaggedy textural shards, and vocoder anomie to the previous album, subtract unifying electroriffage, warm synthesizer beds, and hummable tunes, as Vernon has done, and the abstract prettiness is left intact — just rendered more incompetently.
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It is prettiness that is very alarming to me, so I tend to do a juxtaposition of something that might be pretty with something that is harsh, just because I feel that they occur in life together.
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Here, in the midst of uncomplicated prettiness, stands the 5,500-square-foot rough-complected gray concrete cube, its presence both a rebuke to the area's bourgeois pretensions as well as a reminder of its recent totalitarian history.
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She was delighted by its prettiness, how much everyone who lived there seemed to like it and how it felt both idyllic and down-to-earth, a place of not only stately houses but long-term renters.
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But here, in the middle of all the charm and prettiness, is a model for the sustainable, genuinely enjoyable, city-wide music festival: cheap tickets, reinvestment, locally-based organizers, and a modicum of respect for the city itself.
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Sedaris's Instagram works even better when encountered organically, as Instagram intends: as an intermittent interruption to your feed, a prettiness palate-cleanser, a single blip of creepy Americana to break up all the açai bowls and "Rain Room" photos.
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His accounts of Mozart's Sonata in C, K. 545, and the Fantasia and Sonata in C Minor, rendered without pause, veered from porcelain prettiness to turbulent Romantic gesturing and back again, neither manner suitable to the music at hand.
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Each time that he starts with the Forsterian tone I worry that Hollinghurst has fallen for historical romance, the prettiness of an exclusive past, a time when it was delicious to kiss boys in cupboards between tutorials or whatever.
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It teeters on the uneasy threshold between prettiness and banality and has little of the poetic invention of the two major sculptures hanging in the store's atrium, both lyrical and epic, of grouped boat shapes that lavishly float overhead.
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Such incongruities come easily to Ms. Markey, who veers from scary intensity to a strange plastic prettiness that makes her seem like a character out of a lost Disney cartoon that the company decided not to release to the public.
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I wanted to speak their language, but also to show them that you have a lot of power with that prettiness and you can hide behind it or you can be kind and it won't take anything away from you.
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That last thing is emblematic of what games like these represent against the bigger, more stressful games: forests and lakes are usually symbols of your limits; they function to add prettiness to an environment while also keeping you fenced in.
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The cold hand of digital modulation leaves unexpected traces in that ultrasensitive laryngeal quiver, and while it's sometimes amusing to hear him undercut the prettiness that is his spiritual calling, more often than not his vocal performance screams overwrought artifice.
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The label situates the band's sound as "something between Thisquietarmy, Sutekh Hexen, and Darkspace,"which rings true; hints of aggressively atmospheric USBM bands like Ash Borer bleed through, as well, married with a sort of frenetic, hyperdriven post-rock prettiness.
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It was as if the setting — romantic and historic and timeless as it was — took some of the pressure off the clothes, and allowed viewers to simply glory in the details of their twisted prettiness as opposed to drowning in it.
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Perhaps the most celebrated Western resident in Japan, Lafcadio Hearn, was initially bewitched by the dolls' house prettiness and aesthetic refinement all around him; but the longer he stayed, the more he located the country's heart in its ghost stories.
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The protagonist, Ida, has a green-eyed prettiness, her hair soft, straight, long and honey-colored, her dress ruffled and draped just so, but her bare feet are enormous and wide, like someone who digs up potatoes in a shtetl.
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Colors!) while claiming that they had a "single-page" term sheet for founders, implying that the term sheet's simplicity and prettiness showed that they weren't really investors, but more like a Brooklyn barista with an art side hustle (and a lot of cash).
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They share a belief that fashion needs to be about more than mere prettiness, but should grapple with issues of self and society, as well as a love of contemporary art, reflected in their personal collections as well as the Prada Foundation.
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With the release of Uglies in February 2005, author Scott Westerfeld introduced us to the world of Uglies and Pretties: a future society in which one's sixteenth birthday meant a compulsory cosmetic surgery to become beautiful, and where prettiness led to power and resources.
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Drifting through Auto-Tuned falsetto and floating through dreamy landscapes of noise, Yachty understands that texture and atmosphere have become some of rap's most important tools and takes these ideas one step further, relishing the prettiness of a modulated "hellooooooo" or a voice melting into a synth.
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Emily Hardman, the essay's author, and Rob Reading planned a lovely, pared-down wedding with a reception at the Joseph Smith Memorial Center in Salt Lake City — a stately, wood-paneled room with multiple chandeliers and an ornate ceiling (the inherent prettiness of the venue helped).
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The size-inclusive retailer offers every outfit component in sizes petite, standard, and plus; and keeps us coming back again and again thanks to a constant stream of wearable prettiness, both from its in-house lines and romantic, fantastic brands like Farm Rio, Mara Hoffman, and Rachel Comey.
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To accentuate the prettiness on the current album, they slow down the tempos, sing more breathily, foreground the painstakingly strummed or plucked acoustic riffs, and generally dilute each element until they attenuate the wires running through the machine, and the whole thing unravels into a pile of gears,poles,snapped strings, and smaller contraptions themselves unraveling.
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There were other concerns, of course, running through the collections: the pulling down of borders and the lowering of barriers to entry, as the couture welcomed the American ready-to-wear labels Proenza Schouler and Rodarte, who merged their signature conceptual urbanity and twisted prettiness with the discipline of craft and classicism, and were the better for it.
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Surrounded by friends with long, swishy hair at school and constantly presented with images in movies, TV, magazines, and my favorite music videos that suggested straight hair was the pinnacle of prettiness, it was unsurprising that a preteen me stubbornly wanted to iron out every kink in my natural hair, trying desperately to conform to the perceived ideals of Western beauty.
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From two much-discussed Fyre Festival post mortems, to the recent revelation that bestselling author Dan Mallory almost certainly fabricated his way to incredible professional success, to March's HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which focuses on two victims of Michael Jackson's alleged child abuse, we're being confronted with our cultural tendency to equate charm and prettiness (and in some cases, fame) with goodness and truthfulness.
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