Sentence examples for beautified from inspiring English sources
It harks back to the way Mr Mda's Xhosa people beautified themselves with red ochre, and serves as a metaphor for the struggle between "believers" (traditionalists) and "un-believers" (progressives) in today's South Africa.The starting point is a real event: the destruction of the Xhosa as an independent nation when, in the mid-1850s, they were misled by Nongqawuse, a young prophetess.
THE parliament of Andalusia meets in a former Seville church, vastly beautified by the removal of saints and stucco alike.
Though output in the north has grown more slowly than elsewhere, its cities have beautified themselves: boules pistes and public sculpture liven up formerly deserted bits of Leeds; the seafront at Hull boasts a futuristic new aquarium.
Innumerable town squares and pocket parks have been created or beautified, even in gritty places like Detroit.
Dogs big and small are beautified for 100 pesos ($7.70) in the back of a perspex-walled van run by Fluffy Shower, a mobile pet-salon that visits Mexico City's posh neighbourhoods to apply shampoo and ribbons to upper-class animals.
King Charles VII preferred to live just behind the Bastille, in the Hôtel des Tournelles, which Henry II had had enlarged and beautified by Philibert Delorme in 1550.
The White House did not reply with specificity to calls and emails on why the woman who had, for the duration of Obama's presidency, been entrusted with beautifying the nation's most famous address was apparently not trusted to leave the premises on her own.
Them pigeons there to beautify the park, not to eat.
A Chinese spokesman accused Mr Abe of "beautifying aggression", and called the war criminals remembered at Yasukuni "the Nazis of Asia".
Too many "pressing threats" get in the way of beautifying the way other countries govern themselves.
They have ample room to beautify their records, by using different ways to translate past returns, earned in national currencies, into euros.To see how this might happen, pretend the euro was launched on January 1st 1997 with its value set equal to the ecu, a basket of Europe's national currencies, as the real euro will be.
