But this is just a way of prettifying yet another dumb mistake, the one involving all that coffee.

He called it the "prettifying of reality."

(If news departments excised bloody scenes, they would be accused of prettifying harsh truths.)

Thousands of them, moving back and forth around the woman's neck and up over her face, busy about the business of prettifying her."

If one didn't know Mr. Schoendoerffer's history, one could accuse him of prettifying battle, so gorgeous are so many sequences.

Weimar's tangled history - more tangled still in light of the posthumous prettifying of the poet - was darkened by its role in World War II.

But the program made a strong case that tricks like repackaging outdated fish and prettifying unsold chicken with barbecue sauce were common at two Food Lion stores at least.

But the film stops prettifying its main character as it depicts the shooting that left him paralyzed from the waist down, his subsequent drug addiction with Althea in Bel Air ("I ought to move to a place where perverts are welcome!"

He gives the reader a succinct and devastating portrait of Japan's historical amnesia: its whitewashing of the Nanking massacre (in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed), its prettifying of school textbooks, its reluctance to acknowledge Japan's aggressive role in the war.

As with the homeless, television was back in the business of prettifying reality.

No attempt had been made to prettify the place.

Despite the poor light in the tent she was trying to do something to prettify her fingernails.

"Do you wish me to prettify your ugly face in the mud?"

As the truth about the origins of that war comes out, there may be a temptation, once again, to prettify the story.

And the Government did not feel the need to prettify the decision by invoking compassion or civil rights.

We must be careful not to "prettify" our loss.

"I never cast this project as prettifying," he said.

But this is just a way of prettifying yet another dumb mistake, the one involving all that coffee.

It would have been difficult to prettify him.

No undertaker had intervened, however, to prettify the death of Horrible.

String vibrato, in this section and elsewhere, served only to prettify.

No use to try and prevaricate or prettify, in the hope of securing a better sale.

He challenges Clare to write a book about a situation that she can't wrap up or prettify.

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She was past the stage now of prettifying disguises of her pregnancy.

The only thing remotely nouvelle is the attempt to prettify the plates served.

He also added that she doesn't try to sugarcoat or prettify grim realities.

She did try to prettify the place.

But it wasn't enough simply to prettify reality.

We are not human children who require our parents to prettify our stories to make them palatable."

Which is why members of the women's golf and tennis tours, for example, have sold calendars prettifying their athletes.

Miss Marshall falls within this school as she does not prettify the straightforward jumps or catches among partners.

A campaign has begun to bring down the billboards, landscape the highways and otherwise prettify the approaches to Houston.

Instead, the effect is to prettify the whole thing, something for which designer William Dudley needs no second invitation.