The "beautification algorithm" is more properly a "prettification" one, I think--generally speaking, it turned beautiful and interesting faces into boring faces. ❋ The Year In Pictures (2008)
And Lionel Shriver gets her teeth into the issue of male versus female novelists and gives it a good shake, arguing that female writers never receive the kind of accolades awarded to their male counterparts, and suffer from an infantilizing 'prettification' by marketing departments: ... trussing up my novels as sweet, girly and soft is like stuffing a rottweiler in ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some have got sniffy about the 'prettification' of his music as he moved away from dissonance but I think whatever he releases is of such a standard we can trust him to always be interesting and engaging, however small or large the progressions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His gesture of confidence: Vornado Realty Trust, of which he is CEO and chairman, will within three months begin construction on a more than $100 million rehabilitation and prettification of 330 Madison Avenue, the classy old broad of a building at the near-peerless corner of 42nd Street. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Daley explains his passion for prettification by recalling that shortly after being elected in 1989 he took a train from Washington to New York, and was struck by the ugliness travelers saw as trains entered and left cities along the way. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One of the reasons I loved the movie The Departed was because in every single frame, a hard, dark, ugly truth was being spoken -- without apology or prettification -- and that of itself was beautiful. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Straight men are not wired in the art of prettification thank goodness. ❋ Becca (2006)
In any case, prettification reached its peak and because I ended up with an extra ticket I was able to get hubby in as well. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2006)
The government's prettification efforts in the pending Supreme Court cases continue. posted by Eric 5: 22 PM | ❋ Unknown (2004)
Especially cool was getting to see all the Uglies madness at the Indiana school Scott visited -- there were hoverboards and games and all sorts of things, but my favorite was a gameboard set up like Operation, complete with bones and things to be removed during prettification. ❋ Unknown (2006)
After all, a big part of the prettification adventure is being able know what the product will smell like in advance, which is not a very web-translatable experience. ❋ Unknown (2005)
A flat of purple petunias long-expired from neglect - Susan's one attempt at prettification - depresses us every time we leave for work in the morning, resting as it does in the thin strip of soil between the driveway and Mishka's crop circles. ❋ Coupland, Douglas (1995)
But printing pictures in color, in any medium, was considered a weakening of the fiber -- an excursion into prettification or floridity. ❋ Jacob Kainen (N/A)
While this has its obvious dubieties and disadvantages, any other course would have smacked of prettification -- a fate which such a book as "Yama" surely does not deserve. ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)
The narrator travels with adorable Jankey to Venezuela before their adventure peters out in budget-busting prettification and smuggled cocaine. ❋ Nandini Lal (2011)
They sought to rid every surface and angle of prettification and allusion, and make each a sharp, clear revelation of the bones that kept the building standing up. ❋ John Bentley Mays (2011)
First, I would like to say that I'm not attempting to create an attractive form, but to create styling that is cross-browser compatible and could serve as a basis for further prettification. ❋ Unknown (2009)
