Although we may tolerate insipid prettiness in perishable confectionery, we ought not to do so in objects which become associated with our daily life.
Marjorie's eyes were lifted in an appealing fashion, the prettiness of which she would have been the last to believe, to the dark eyes somewhat haughtily questioning hers.
Stage prettiness was never more out of place than in the Covent Garden presentation of the scene.
But they are the inhabitants of a dear, familiar world in which everything breathes of prettiness and lovable good-humour.
Clearness, neatness, and prettiness are to be found everywhere in his pictures.
We were delighted with the prettiness and quaintness of that country, and still more with the prettiness and quaintness of the Japanese people.
Will you not always find sorrow and misfortune seated at the root of things if, disregarding overlaying prettiness of summer days, of green leaf and gay blossom, you dare draw near, dig deep, look close?
Her prettiness was enhanced by a timid and appealing playfulness.
At the dance which followed the sleigh-ride Kennicott was devoted to the wateryprettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily interested in getting up a Virginia Reel.
Quality rather than style and plainness rather than prettinessare his standards in dress.
So it is small wonder that men have placed prettiness near the top of the list, and the Alimentive woman is the prettiest of all types.
Her prettiness tormented him; therefore he hated her, and everything about her.
Some women, for instance, irritated your admiration by the capricious prettiness of one or two features, or fatigued it by the monotonous regularity of all.
Here is a bit of wild woodland nature unspoiled by the improving spirit which makes for prettiness in the Royal Parks and Kew Gardens and in too many of the County Council's open spaces.
It saves trouble and makes forprettiness to cut down decaying trees.
Her prettinesswas still visible in the darkness; she was opening and closing her enormous fan.
She paused again for an instant; she was looking at Winterbourne with all her prettinessin her lively eyes and in her light, slightly monotonous smile.
In the weak moments of early love her husband had acquiesced in the profanity, but later all the gain to her soft prettiness did not compensate for the twinges of his conscience.
He was going to extinguish the pallid light of Susan's prettinessin the brightness of Myrtle's beauty.
She would have been called pretty by anybody but Gusta, and Gusta herself must have allowed her prettiness in any moment less sharp than this.
The woman was tall and slender, and her pale face had some trace of prettiness left; her clothing was better than that of the others, though it had remained over from some easier circumstance of the summer.
The Rape of the Lock, perhaps, stops short of beauty, but it attains elegance and prettiness in a supreme degree.
The enfeebling eclecticism of the Carracci, and the profitless fecundity of Guido, had given currency to all sorts of second-rate qualities, and in painting had substituted prettiness for beauty.
But there was always something more than mere prettiness about Sylvia, something which seemed to shine from within out.
The managers smiled unctuously upon her prettinesswhen Suzanne bearded them in their dens.
At the station in Norton, Roger Minot waited with his car to meet Suzanne--a crushed anguished Suzanne, her pertness and her prettiness equally in eclipse.
She was not wise enough to know that it was nothing in her meagre little personality that had roused the lightnings in a manly bosom, merely a type of prettiness made unconventional by the setting and the man.
Yet, as she spoke, she lightly laid her hand over the tattooed image of the flying sea-bird, concealing it, for it moved her to the point of active suffering in its quaint prettiness fixed thus indelibly up in the warm live flesh.
She is pretty, too, the kind of prettiness that does not awe or stir deeply or command worship.
As a man, he can win a wife as well as the more favored ones, and there are women present with much less style and prettiness than Marcia.
On the contrary, she was touched by a sort of despair that the prettiness of which she was wholly conscious could not, after all, give her what she had a right to expect from it.
Her comfortable kindness, so unequivocally free from hidden doubts, was really soothing to poor Anthony, and paved the way for the step which Ada's prettiness and enthusiasm and desperate admiration brought about at last.
The virtues which the artist values most in them are prettiness and punctuality.
This type degenerated into mere facile prettiness in the hands of lesser masters, and, in protest against it, was created by the hands of the Pre-Raphaelites a new type, with its rare combination of Greek form with Florentine mysticism.
Stone bridges are works of architecture and art; wooden bridges have a certain rustic prettiness in the country; but the iron bridge of the railway harmonises with nothing.
Wraysbury is rather a pretty village than otherwise, and we leave it with a wish that it may be spared any loss of its present prettiness for many years to come.
Perhaps to excel some others by the prettiness of her apparel might be a pride to her.
Then the door opened, and Ayala, radiant with beauty, in all the prettiness of her best morning costume, was in a moment in her arms.
An idyll could not be carried out with more prettiness of manner than is this picture which represents the rising of a people.
Under its influence the jejune painting of prettiness practised by others was changed to modern pessimism and sorrowful resignation.
If I was to say a word to my son that I thought that, there wouldn't be no prettiness left to you.
I can tell him 'Christina is my youth and my prettiness and my true faith and all that you once knew.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prettiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
