Ms. Paulson, as slender as a stalk of wheat, has the porcelain prettiness of a delicately sculptured figurine — but one that, upon closer examination, possesses hairline cracks that only render it more beautiful.
The book translated one line as "There are lovelier than you, lovelier," while Goggles rendered it as: "There are more beautiful than you, is' beautiful".
From a strictly grammatical standpoint, it makes little sense, seeing as the Wolof, if translated, would already mean "it's pretty" or "it's beautiful," rendering the English "it's so" completely superfluous.
Whereas Darwin believed that male-male competition was generally thought to improve the species, female choice resulted in the development of beauty without utility: "a great number of male animals… have been rendered beautiful for beauty's sake" (Darwin 1859, 371); "the most refined beauty may serve as a charm for the female, and for no other purpose" (1871, vol. 2 92).
It effortlessly resists the years, equilibrates itself perfectly and renders more beautiful everything it touches.
Haslett has a great gift for capturing the strikingly different inner worlds of his characters and rendering them in beautiful prose.
It's not always easy to read — many of the essays only begin to yield their full significance on second or third encounters — but it is filled with astonishing insights rendered in beautiful prose (and not just by the standards of twentieth-century philosophical writing).
Prioritizing function over form, the chair is rendered beautiful in its simplicity and efficiency.
This includes such hits as the original King's Quest: Quest for the Crown rendered in beautiful 16-color CGA, a game that literally made my jaw drop when I saw it boot up on my friend's XT computer in about 1985.
