prettification

No newspaper can be held responsible, however, for the prose prettification in its advertising.

The prettification ignores the damage the Saddam claque is doing to the world.

But they are far too grateful to begrudge him a little posthumous prettification.

This degree of denial and prettification is dangerous.

He hasn't committed cinematic cosmetic surgery, falsifying for mere prettification.

This prettification and appeasement of China, France and Russia continues.

"Wanda Jean's" purpose is to question the legal system by exposing its dreary and loaded mechanisms without prettification.

While he captured many people in bleak surroundings, his photographs reflect no condescension or pity - or prettification - but rather an appreciation of the lives being shown.

That led to the linguistic prettification of saloons as taverns and of shops purveying the mother's milk of John Barleycorn as package stores.

Today, Neil Welliver and Alex Katz both live near Belfast, which has missed out on some of the rampant prettification happening in coastal towns.

His sloppy technique included "slackness of rhythms, wrong tempos, distorted phrasing, an excess of prettification and sentimentality, a failure to stick to what the composer has written".

An inaccurate prettification of a pioneer society where things were often unjust as well as asymmetrical, it is, she said in an interview, "as phony as a nine-dollar bill."

His first step at prettification has been to write a memoir, "Tommyland," published in mid-October by Atria Books, in which he gets to tell his side of the story.

"Their preservation and prettification proclaimed a new social reality," Joshua B. Freeman wrote in "Working-Class New York" (The New Press, 2000).

But no one at the city's Department of Transportation could have foreseen the angry ambush awaiting its plans to close the oft-congested Prospect Expressway on May 3 for an all-volunteer prettification project.

A flat of purple petunias long-expired from neglect- Susan's one attempt at prettification - depresses us every time we leave for work in the morning, resting as it does in the thin strip of soil between the driveway and Mishka's crop circles.

Mr. Kalichstein and Mr. Bronfman gave the Stravinsky the full two-piano treatment, and the work's savage rhythms and harmonies, shorn of what little prettification Stravinsky chose to supply with his orchestration, have never sounded bolder or crueler.

Although he is now the foremost exponent of French musical tradition, meaning its epitomization of clarity, order and reason, he is a stern polemicist against the prettification and sentimentality that are also very much associated with French musical theater, and with "Pelleas" especially.

He cited a broadcast by Peter Jennings of ABC when Yasir Arafat's plane was missing: "if something has befallen him in a terminal way. . . ." Because the word lying is off-putting to some, we have seen some prettification under oath.

Moreover, Mr. Fussell believes that most of the reality of war has been obscured behind a retrospective campaign of prettification whose major exponent is the Time-Life Books multi-volume pictorial history of the war (which occupies a prominent place on Mr. Fussell's living room bookshelf).

Unlike Robert Wilson and Martha Clarke, who explore relativity, irrationality and evil in the context of beautiful eye-pleasing tableaux, the Wooster Group's theatrical collages present the violent inexplicable collision of cultures and artistic materials without prettification or overt moralizing, although the work resonates with a post-countercultural despair.