In Home, even the most painful and devastating moments are told head-on, not prettified to make them more palatable nor heightened to create a stronger impression. |
To hide these issues under a cloak of prettified gentility would be a great betrayal of the art form of opera and the huge heritage of deeply-felt music which it incorporates. |
Apart from the BES, he prettified up to 100 houses in Engadine with scraffito decoration. |
Our show isn't a prettified atmosphere, it's pretty full-on. |
Also investing huge amounts if money rightly in the High Street being prettified with welcoming clean fresh facades. |
Because nothing is approximate, nothing is prettified, gussied up, softened. |