Sentence examples for pretty rather than from inspiring English sources

The model became pretty, rather than austerely aloof.

He sees the parents succumbing to cultural stereotypes of daughters being pretty rather than intellectually empowered.

But Pitt's face is pretty, rather than noble, and he doesn't have the right voice for tragic heroism.

If it weren't for the eyebrows, which are caricatures of eyebrows, exceptionally dark and heavy, Radcliffe might be pretty rather than what he is, which is handsome in a vaguely gothic way.

Like the rest of the collection, the effect was pretty, rather than menacing, making this an approachable and appealing collection where the former giant gestures had been cut down, prettily, to size.

This submersion was lessened by a rather sentimental score for solo piano, played by a Bard student, Kazio Sosnowski; pretty rather than meaningful, it narrowed the dance's emotional range, blunting its more sinister and mysterious shadings.

At the time, the women were among a group of women athletes being pushed to "swim pretty," rather rather than competitively, Kokai said.

A 2-0 win for United was pretty average rather than Pretty Woman, with even Sir Alex calling it "a very ordinary performance".

"It's quite nice talking about what it was like to be the young pretty thing, rather than being it".

"For the most part we played ballads on the pretty side, rather than swinging them like Benny Goodman".

A third thinks that it is a pretty woman, rather than cloth or fur, that really attracts moths.