Sentence examples for destroy beauty from inspiring English sources
Dutch 17th-century vanitas paintings focus on the transience of life, but Pompeo Batoni's "Time Ordering Old Age to Destroy Beauty," with an old woman reaching out to touch the unblemished face of a young woman, is more disturbing.
As with much romantic poetry, the real subject here is time — which destroys beauty and turns the sweetest kiss into a memory.
Several skirts are homages to arte povera, the school of conceptual art that celebrates ephemerality and decay: one skirt is dyed in such a way as "to create a damaged effect," while another assumes "a dirtied look of almost destroyed beauty".
Obviously, any of these modifications would totally destroy the beauty and success of that space.
"But building beyond the boundaries of the domain threatens to destroy the beauty of the historical Polenov landscape".
We shouldn't act like we own the planet, particularly given our dispensation to destroy its beauty.
Cars spread us out and isolate us, encourage rudeness, destroy the beauty of our landscapes and the health of our environment, and kill us with shocking frequency.
In 1963, Scenic Hudson challenged Consolidated Edison's plan to build a power plant, arguing that it would destroy the beauty of Storm King Mountain near West Point and threaten local water supplies and fisheries.
"I think that that's the responsibility of the principals, teachers, administrators, to make sure that a handful of bad apples don't destroy the beauty for everybody and don't take away the opportunity for everybody".
Dick had been the first person to pay the family his respects when they bought the place, and he expressed the hope that they wouldn't destroy the beauty of it by modernizing it.
