Ejemplos de uso de prettified
1. As a result, they over–prettified things, turning out some snarly gas–guzzling monsters at the top of the market but under–applying themselves to the agricultural community which made Land Rover famous.
2. Much of what drives Britain‘s confused and inconsistent attitude towards meat eating is not concern over the welfare of farm animals, but the modern horror of coming too close to food in anything but a transformed, prettified state.
3. No strategy in this regard has been unexplored, so that even the iron ring of Norman fortresses – a rather revolting colonial legacy – are prettified by its tourist board so that Wales becomes "gwlad y cestyll" – land of castles.
4. This isn‘t, I don‘t think, a reflection of the fact that women and men have fundamentally different psyches, more a reflection of what is still expected from women, even now – an acceptance of humour only where it‘s wacky and prettified, everything filtered through the dufus–kindness of the Bridget Jones trope.
5. The former, with that semiautomatic verbal polish with which a sharp lawyer appears to be thoroughly convinced by his own eloquent statement, and the latter with that same prettified nonchalance with which an amateur poet helps himself to "poetic license." Thus Peres was able not only, to the point of disgust, to flatter Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas (who remained insultingly dogmatic) and to fulminate endlessly about "the New Middle East." He also made ceremonious mention of "Oslo" as a factor that "changed the routine of the Middle East." Advertisement It did change the Middle East, and in a big way.