Like The Lovely Bones, it's pretty miserable prettified slush. |
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. |
Our show isn't a prettified atmosphere, it's pretty full-on. |
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. |
On inspection, the colours were wrong, ditto the texture and the screws that prettified the straps. |
In the minds of many it may be prettified and romanticised, but the need for it is strong notwithstanding. |