On Thursday, as he vied to win what was essentially a conservative beauty contest among potential presidential contenders, Walker boasted about a new war with unions.
Later that year, Chaffetz told TMZ that conservative beauty pageant winner Carrie Prejean, who sparked controversy after a sex-tape revelation, had a future in politics.
Agencies tend to be relied upon for a certain, specific aesthetic – often a traditional, even conservative, idea of beauty.
He was a convenient straw man for radical art historians who attacked him as a posh conservative lover of beauty.
Are heroic acts, astonishing generosity, sacrifice and beauty liberal or conservative?
At the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Roger Scruton enters a plea for architectural beauty, and at The New Statesman, a review of Scruton's The Face of God: the Gifford Lectures.
A combination of dermatological intervention (Botox, fillers, plastic surgery), airbrushing, less conservative dress codes and a rigorous health and beauty regime allows women with enough money and motivation to practically stop the ageing clock.
Welcome to the incongruities of running a beauty pageant that aspires to embrace the conservative nature of Arab societies while still being, well, a beauty pageant.
As a conservative powerhouse, he may prefer tearjerkers like The Red Pony and Black Beauty to the avante-garde Equus.
The best — notably "And the Bridegroom" (1993), which finds a slim lass asleep beside the dozing mountain of Bowery — are powerfully perfect on Freud's truculently conservative terms, forcing raw flesh across an unguarded, because unsuspected, frontier of beauty.
With her photographs, Ms. Brady also uses her subjects to question female identity, sexuality and standards of beauty — an issue she often questioned growing up in a conservative Roman Catholic household.
