prettifying

Example Sentences

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Graf’s approach is admirably less enamored with the prettifying impulses so many filmmakers rely on to capture the past, and instead centered on putting us inside it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Cale is not interested in circumventing or prettifying anguish: let it come down.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2017

There are materials such as carpet squares and windowpanes for prettifying the work.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2014

The three artists write that they sought “to avoid prettifying the catastrophic change wrought by a warming planet,” but there is beauty in their depiction of a vanishing blue world.

From Washington Post

But this is just a way of prettifying yet another dumb mistake, the one involving all that coffee.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich