Sentence examples for an ugliness of from inspiring English sources

Their insipid romance is fortified by exchanges of poetry, impromptu musical numbers and frolics through metropolitan splendor, all of which is undermined by an ugliness of spirit that allows for a delightful woman to fall (empty) head over (obedient) heels for a repugnant leading man.

But it observes an ugliness on the behalf of men's sexual desires.

As I said, there's an extraordinary ugliness of spirit abroad in today's America, which health reform has brought out into the open".

The Thomas hearings had a unique ugliness, of course, and Biden's role was surely not his finest hour, but the outcome of the hearings probably affected the Court as an institution in only a modest way.

"But they are a kind of mirror that shows a face of men, an ugliness, and shows the real experience of women".

Neither company has an adequate production of the full-length "Swan Lake," and City Ballet's (though it is generally the less foolish and has the better final act) has a startling visual ugliness of design.

The term arts and crafts came into common usage in the Victorian era, when writers like William Morris called for a return to craftsmanship as an antidote to the ugliness of the early machine age.

It is, of course, art rather than history — an elegant composition of dreams, memories and suggestive images — but its artfulness seems like an alibi, an excuse for keeping the ugliness of history out of the picture.

Almost all judgments about someone's language – the laziness of a glottal stop, the slowness of rural speech, the supposed ugliness of a particular urban accent – have no linguistic justification and reflect only the prejudice of the judger.

The sheer ugliness of a naked body when inserted between a goitered neck and a laughing ghoul.

The ugliness of an industrial trolley sitting atop flattened cardboard boxes is offset by dramatic backlighting and the thin fragility of plastic bags, blown up like balloons.