Sentence examples for then beautiful from inspiring English sources

Then, beautiful color: red houses by the water, green leaves on trees, a sunset, grasses, sun.

Since then, beautiful Inle Lake has come under threat from rapid tourist development and pollution.

"It was glacier land, then beautiful swampland, then they drained that, put in orchards" she said of Skokie.

Ma said, "I was taught that sex was dirty and awful, a sin before marriage, but then beautiful after".

Then "beautiful" makes a natural equivalent to the Greek adjective, certainly sounding less stilted than the alternatives.

In both cases, then, beautiful objects appear purposive to us because they give us aesthetic pleasure in the free play of our faculties, but they also do not appear purposive because they either do not or do not seem to do this intentionally.

"God," Drabble says, "marbles were so beautiful then".

"It was all so beautiful then," he recalled.

This is so hard, but then it's so beautiful.

And then everything is so beautiful it is hard to stay indoors.

What the New Wavers liked, apart from the subversive nature of the material, and what may seem to us old hat by now, is that everything was shot on location in Paris and its quays; the book seller's stuffy household and the then-beautiful suburban countryside are evoked with great eloquence and skill.