A perfectionism that rejects or abandons what we cannot fully control is a flaw far deeper than a monster's ugliness. |
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The ugliness stands out this morning, the snowdrifts soiled by what the wind has picked up from the fields. |
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But it has a ring of truth to me, mixing, as it does, ugliness with disorganization and a spiralling cycle of unaccountability. |
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It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled. |
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I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep. |
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Evidently, a lot of the ugliness occurred near the end of the concert, about the time that Jethro Tull was scheduled to perform. |
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There's no denying the ugliness of much of the surrounding neighborhood, with its filthy streets and corroding industrial buildings. |
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With live video feeds via satellite to a global market, much of the ugliness of war is brought into homes almost everywhere. |
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He lives in the picture-perfect place that doesn't have crime, poverty, or ugliness, Mitch thought apprehensively. |
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Ben is a genetic throwback to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness. |
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This innocence clashing with the ugliness of life, was this good news for art? |
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In these relationships, Michell portrays the ugliness in the institution of marriage and the establishment of family. |
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She has written an updated foreword to her book about the ugliness that was Bonfire of the Vanities. |
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Like all master craftspeople, Brian wanted to let the ugliness and mistakes in. |
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, but so are ugliness, crudity and complete bewilderment. |
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And for some reason, we have these little Edens, these pieces of paradise in the ugliness. |
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I gazed down upon the old quarter, a collage of dun roofs, domes and vaults, pencil and square minarets, ugliness and elegance. |
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The clash of contemporary ugliness with ancient beauty is a tripwire I often stumble on. |
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Understanding her dance has rested upon a binary that relegates ballet to a position of abjection, impurity and ugliness. |
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Music and lights and laughter, scratchy laughter that even in its ugliness sounded happier than mine. |
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I am afflicted with a proclivity for self-criticism whereby every blemish is revealed in all its unredeemed ugliness. |
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Next of kin to the golden coreopsis, it behooves some of the bur-marigolds to redeem their clan's reputation for ugliness. |
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What cosmic, mystical reason could there be for such evil and ugliness and destruction to exist? |
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It is the ugliness that is intolerable to look at, that turns you to stone or salt. |
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My last day there, we were caught in the middle of some ugliness on that bridge. |
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She has stimulated me to create and to share beauty where others tolerate ugliness. |
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Discordant vocal and guitar overdubs add a welcomed ugliness to the track. |
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If we aspire to that personally and legislate for it publicly, the ugliness will dissipate. |
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The couple complained about the dumpster in the driveway, the size of it, its ugliness. |
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As cities grew, administrators across Canada became concerned about urban ugliness and unhealthiness. |
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The little girl, terrified by the old lady's ugliness, cries out in fright. |
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Some buildings in the city are stony-faced, and their ugliness should be bricked up. |
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They can be recognized fairly easily by their repulsing ugliness, their void gaze, and their tendancy to thrown themselves at anything alive. |
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In Parque San Mateo, Patricia Nova, a mother of two, says the bucolic hacienda next door compensates for the ugliness of the estate's concrete. |
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That hardly any believers approach aesthetic taste in this way is in no small part the reason we are flailing about today in a culture of ugliness and death. |
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The attached photos are a visual reminder of the ugliness of feedlots compared to the province's natural beauty. |
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There are vast natural resources and great beauty as well as the ugliness of greed and environmental abuse. |
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The city's contrast between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, has always been fuel for the creative fires of artists of all kinds. |
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He discovers that the king has created pain, ugliness and pollution throughout the land. |
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Beauty: As you groom, you remove the hardness, blemishes, lesions and traits that are responsible for your ugliness. |
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We have never been against industry but we are always against exploitation, ugliness and greed. |
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Brookside showed societal ugliness in a way no soap opera had done before. |
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She lived alone because of her peculiar ugliness, caused by a fire. |
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One critic applauded this famous man for revealing his ugliness. |
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The stultifying ugliness of a northern British industrial city is somehow transformed into a kind of wild beauty by the way the ratio opens up the image. |
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The ugliness of fashionably thin, beautiful models is clear and sickening. |
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After all the ugliness of what has happened in our game, the building for the future that people such as Calderwood are undertaking will stand us in good stead. |
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Its no longer even faintly pretty but has become a wrinkle of ugliness. |
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The product of the Soviets' laudable campaign for universal public housing, Petrzalka's rank ugliness serves only to emphasize what a jewel the old part of the city is. |
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Lee makes a convincing case that the loveliness of much Renaissance art is inversely related to the moral ugliness of its patrons. |
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The ugliness we sometimes encounter transcends outward appearances. |
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The ideology of bigotry can be found all over Europe, in fact, and its ugliness is spreading like gangrene, especially in France. |
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I can see vulgarity and ugliness anywhere I want to look, and I can see it for free. |
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The four paintings project a full-frontal ugliness. |
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Scratch the surface, and ugliness pops up. |
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In recent years the Rossiya's ugliness has been matched by its seediness. |
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In other words, it was a thing of beauty from a land of ignoble ugliness. |
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The tyranny of time, devouring love, the insatiability of creation: with powerful words, the author marks time in a singular universe where beauty and ugliness live side by side. |
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The boat stops in Ponza where he refuses to stay at the only hotel because he finds himself afraid of the cold unfriendliness and of the ugliness of it, for it resembles so much of the world. |
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Faced with a world torn between good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, he enjoyed imagining it free of political dealings and machinations. |
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I am going through the spirit of the churches and what is right will stand fast, and what is wrong will rise up in ugliness and fight what is right. |
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There's no online platform – Twitter, Livejournal, Medium, Facebook – that hasn't been turned, at some point, into a soapbox for ugliness and hate. |
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It is a change for the better, to rub up on the ugliness of the place, see the stains it leaves. |
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By discussing his admiration of women and his desire to understand how to love a woman, Ramdath hopes that his work will illuminate a beautiful truth in a search that often exposes tremendous pain and ugliness. |
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Finally, perhaps this report will at some time enable us in this Chamber and in the Union to have a rational and reasonable debate on immigration and visa issues, decoupled from the ugliness of nationalism and xenophobia. |
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But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. |
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Beauty may be attractive, but ugliness is more fun, or so it will seem to the peruser of this fascinating volume edited by Umberto Eco and translated by Alastair McEwen. |
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Hunt's works were not initially successful, and were widely attacked in the art press for their alleged clumsiness and ugliness. |
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Wherever that approach was tried in Birmingham, or Glasgow, or around the elevated Westway in north-west London it caused exactly the sort of ugliness and alienation he had hoped to banish. |
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In Meiners's book The Outline of History of Mankind, he said that a main characteristic of race is either beauty or ugliness. |
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A grotesque is a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful human or animal figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness or caricature. |
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He rated each for the beauty or ugliness of the skull and quality of their civilizations. |
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Aren't I beautiful in refusing the opposition between beauty and ugliness? |
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His deep, resonant voice, somber but nonjudgmental in tone, allows the ugliness of the era and the phenomenon of Lustmord to speak chillingly for itself. |
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Tourists are discovering the resultant transformation of the Ruhr region from slag heaps and smoke-belching ugliness to a green, leisure-based landscape. |
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Others in the crowded bus, having nothing better to do, took up the cry, and soon many of the higglers were chorusing about the ugliness of the fisherman playing dominoes. |
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The tackier the better, the more lights and bells and overall ugliness. |
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That may be meant to suggest another problem entirely, Jake's agenbite of inwit, but it's less trivial than it seems, part of what Julius calls the aesthetics of ugliness. |
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His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner. |
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