But when the composer Hannah Lash contemplated subjects for a planned chamber opera involving two singers and string quartet, she picked "Beauty and the Beast" specifically for its qualities of intimacy, vulnerability and conflict.
A pile of violet-tinged freshly picked beauties with their silvery leaves is quite an enticing sight.
You can pick up beauty products, hand-sewn leather notebooks and sketchpads and its latest hot seller, a series of Freitag-inspired canvas bags at bargain prices.
After going through the ads in the back of a Vogue, Misbah picked a beauty school to attend in London.
Customers pick up beauty products five times before making a decision to buy it.
His pass for the first goal was a beauty, picking out the run of Simon Davies through the Hamburg defence.
In 1988, as The Little Mermaid was wrapping, production on Aladdin was picking up, and Beauty and the Beast was in full swing, Ashman was diagnosed with HIV.
But Karin Tilberg of the Northern Forest Alliance worries that the state will "allow itself to buy retail, cherry-picking beauty strips along lakes".
They'd overnighted at a Super 8 in Pompano and showed him the postcards, the Barefoot Mailman, bathing beauties picking oranges.
Now the woman behind such wacky-but-wise axioms such as "let the penis do the picking" and "beauty fades, dumb is forever" tells HuffPost Entertainment what to look forward to in season five, premiering on Bravo August 15th, why New York women are the stupidest (in the world!) and how Marc Anthony's control issues lost him Jennifer Lopez.
But that wasn't going to be a problem here, because the beauty of picking this bread was that the sandwich could be held either side up, unlike a roll or a bagel (this is a serious business; I think a lot about these things).
