Robotic CNC machines – cutting systems that use spinning tools to swipe through metal, wood, and plastic – are cool but ugly.
Now it was cool to be ugly.
"If I have done anything," she told British Vogue, "it was making ugly cool".
I did, and nearly crossed the DMZ separating cool from dangerously ugly.
I have learned that anger is not cool, it is ugly, even though it might feel momentarily cathartic".
In my own closet, I have a pair of Prada trousers from the nineteen-nineties that I treasure for their ugly cool.
Prada's useful notion of "ugly cool" may finally solve the problem of finding an English equivalent for the French epithet jolie laide.
The WRX looks strange, ugly or cool, depending on your disposition, which means you may be driven to another car just to avoid driving the Subaru.
"Cool, you're not ugly," she says and motions for me to come in.
Never pass somebody off for being "not cool enough" or "too ugly" because normally these people are amazing and being friends with them will bring so much happiness to your life.
