Many battles remain, many ugly shards will slice at the veins of the culture for years to come.
The "biggest and ugliest" electricity pylons slicing through some of the UK's most treasured beauty spots are set to be torn down.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo.com liked celebrating that slice of beauty on an ugly day, and Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post followed suit.
No matter how you slice the numbers, they are ugly.
A parent, a spouse, or someone close broke trust, sliced and diced you with ugly words, or abandoned you.
In between was a telling spell when Wilkinson and Geraghty were forced into ugly errors with a pass around the back and sliced cross-kick respectively.
No matter how you slice the weenie, it adds up to a pretty ugly picture.
Of cult cheerleading classic "Bring It On," moviegoers were prepared to expect "a slice of diet cheesecake, a 'Coyote Not Quite So Ugly.'" "Mean Girls" fared somewhat better among critics -- The New Yorker called it a classic in 2014.
"Lost" is another three-minute slice of unexpected introspection, woozy and vulnerable all at once – "when I'm ugly, hug me" – that gives the last word to his better half.
A grimy, butter-side-down slice of life straight from 1977, Bravo Jubilee is, like its predecessors, raw, crude, ugly and brazenly real, with no allowance made for modern sensibilities.
