Though the ugliness and dreary crowded sameness with which standard sprawl replaces decent landscapes are reason enough for opposing it, other good reasons exist as well, perhaps especially in rural counties.
Their stark and extensive ugliness has made them the subject of much high-level investigation, most of which has sought to make their conversion into usable scrap metal a profitable process.
No doubt in this country, as in many others, there is more honest friendship and less ugliness among the simple beings devoted to purely physical work.
It’s because what I remember is not pain and ugliness but only the beauty of sacrifice and the nobility of men who at other times may have been very sordid,” she said warmly.
Now it was by the use of sounds cunningly contrived to displease the ear that Strauss built up his atmosphere of uglinessin Elektra.
But though ugliness be the opposite to beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness.
But I would by no means insinuate that ugliness of itself is a sublime idea, unless united with such qualities as excite a strong terror.
Ugliness I imagine likewise to be consistent enough with an idea of the sublime.
On the walls, several photographs of Italian masterpieces disguised the ugliness of the typical boarding-house paper.
There was every ugliness or distortion that told of unnatural aversion conceived by parents for their offspring, or of young lives which, from the earliest dawn of infancy, had been one horrible endurance of cruelty and neglect.
She loved him in spite of his ugliness and decrepitude, because “all was beautiful within him.
A Greek before Troy, notorious for his uglinessand scurrility.
It happens very luckily that the sobriety and discretion is of my daughter's side; I am sorry the ugliness is so too, for my son grows extremely handsome.
You may easily suppose how much this extraordinary dress sets off and improves the natural ugliness with which God Almighty has been pleased to endow them all generally.
If at the moment of physical delight the covering were taken away, and a face of hideous, revolting ugliness disclosed, one would fly in horror, in spite of the beauties of the woman's body.
My page was a man of thirty, and terribly ugly; but this was a recommendation, as his ugliness secured him from the jealous suspicions of husbands.
I found him with a young man whom I recognized as his brother, though he was very handsome and the marquis very ugly; but the distinction between beauty and ugliness is often hard to point out.
Plato ordains in his Laws that he who has performed any signal and advantageous exploit in war may not be refused during the whole expedition, his age or ugliness notwithstanding, a kiss or any other amorous favour from any woman whatever.
Ugliness of a confessed antiquity is to me less old and less ugly than another that is polished and plastered up.
Whatever is unnecessary for either of these motives (or any others) for making a noise, can be put to the account of the desire to avoidugliness and enjoy beauty.
Across the fields I saw the tin roof of the conventicle where we went to church on Sunday, lifting its modern ugliness beyond the playground walls.
There was evidence of intense internal struggle that yet did not include the ugliness of strain.
I have dwelt already on the great lack of beauty and of art in social work, on its ugliness and drabness, and on the care-worn look in the social worker's face.
I have written of the ugliness and the depression that I have seen too much in social workers' lives.
Ugliness is just as irrelevant as prettiness, and the painter who goes out of his way to be ugly is being as inartistic and silly as the man who makes his angels simper.
And all men's miserable days, And all the ugliness and pain, O Providence, I will not praise.
Beauty and ugliness are matters of mental correspondence.
Its silver-flecked gray paper and oval gilt picture-frames recalled an epoch nearer and uglier than that of the grave library and sprightly boudoir below, though even its ugliness had a charm.
And here she stood, under that cruel sky, among the unimaginable ugliness of this City of Dreadful Night.
So many writers have expatiated upon the sordid ugliness of Castellamare and upon the beauty of the wooded slopes above the town, that a further description of the place may well be dispensed with.
It was a land of ugliness and mourning, a city of stifling air and of human terror.
Despite all the ugliness which had so repelled Ruskin, the squalor which moved Matthew Arnold to the fiercest scorn in all his writings, Morris's appreciation arose from his craftsman's knowledge and respect for supreme craftsmanship.
I am sick of my life here; of the ugliness of everything.
Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla; under Claudius and Domitian there is a deformity of baseness corresponding with the ugliness of the tyrant.
If we wish to discover at one glance what a degree of ugliness fact can attain, when looked at through the distance of centuries, let us regard Machiavelli.
Beauty is thrift, ugliness is waste, ugliness is sin which scatters, destroys, integrates.
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