Sentence examples for prettifying from inspiring English sources

Prodded by Jackie Goldberg, the local council member, local property owners agreed to tax themselves to the tune of $600,000 a year each for the next five years to raise money for infrastructure, and voluntary organisations began the mammoth task of cleaning the graffiti and prettifying the streets.

Some are in effect travelling back in time, getting rid of post-war apartments on their fringes while prettifying their medieval cores.Demolition crews have also been at work in some of the most severely depleted Japanese towns and in the American Midwest, where the process is gently known as "right-sizing".

They are filling in potholes and prettifying pavements and praying that fellow villagers visiting the capital will not spot them navvying.But the country is looking beyond the summit.

Its one dab of brilliance is having Romeo write his monologues, your basic horny teenager prettifying his thoughts on paper.

In a funny way, the broken-windows theory of halting crime by prettifying bad neighborhoods -- put into practice by Mayor Giuliani and former Police Commissioner Bratton -- is not paternalistic but maternal: the clean-up-your-room strategy of policing.

He has rerecorded some of his best-loved songs with deft Nashville professionals, prettifying — or, if you like, desecrating — his own beloved back catalogue of obscurities.

Beyond the sheer graphic impact of so much disease, distortion and disfigurement, what distinguishes them is an acute paradox: here the styles and modes of bygone eras are used not to prettify people or create a picturesque landscape, but to render the pathological as clearly as possible with a view to instructing physicians.

Bankers was fined $64m earlier this year after admitting that it had transferred unclaimed customers' funds to prettify its balance sheet.

Can you point to someone "who makes art out of working-class lives by refusing to prettify them"?

And, thanks to the no doubt well-meaning but bizarre concept of "social promotion", up to 300,000 students who fail to pass exams each year are still automatically passed up to the next grade.In this section To traffic hell and back A surfeit of disaster The hobbled cheerleader Oh, Lord Rudy v Rudy Unsafe waters Prettify it, or get rid of it?

A shabby part of east London has been prettified: the site of the main Olympic Park was until recently rough scrubland containing piles of rotting fridges and a dirty river.