Use "prettiness" in a sentence
prettiness example sentences
prettiness
1. "And these be yon flowers for just prettiness," she finished with a gush
2. And, I’m lucky to be able to truly say that I find Talia to be the most attractive among you by far, not only for her alluring prettiness, but for her intelligent and adorable manner as well
3. That prettiness hid unpleasant, needle-like nettles that grew along the lower parts of its stems and stung when touched
4. She was very pretty, but underneath that prettiness was a bossy, spoiled little brat
5. Not that he set any store by prettiness, he told himself; all he asked in a woman was devotion
6. One of the major attractions, apart from the prettiness of the countryside and its proximity to London which would allow trips into the city whenever he desired, was the fact that there was some vacant farmland that could be purchased quickly
7. Mere prettiness is a little difficult to place, it does not come between either of our extremes, possessing little character or type, variety or unity
8. But Watteau's great accomplishment was in doing this without degenerating into feeble prettiness, and this he did by an insistence on character in his figures, particularly his men
9. At any rate there is enough in the figures to prevent any sickly prettiness, although I think if you removed the figures the landscape would not be tolerable
10. But the followers of Watteau seized upon the prettiness and gradually got out of touch with the character, and if you compare Boucher's heads, particularly his men's heads, with Watteau's you may see how much has been lost
11. She turns to favour and to prettiness
12. He also, appeared very fragile and in his childish face was reproduced much of the delicate prettiness which she had once possessed
13. The half-light under the thick mass of leaves brought out the youthful prettiness of her face; made the clear, light fabrics and white lace of her dress appear luminous
14. "All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid
15. Meanwhile many of the milkmaids had said to one another of the newcomer, "How pretty she is!" with something of real generosity and admiration, though with a half hope that the auditors would qualify the assertion—which, strictly speaking, they might have done, prettiness being an inexact definition of what struck the eye in Tess
16. And yet, when after some resistance he had consented to take the Casaubons to his friend's studio, he had been allured by the gratification of his pride in being the person who could grant Naumann such an opportunity of studying herloveliness—or rather her divineness, for the ordinary phrases which might apply to mere bodily prettiness were not applicable to her
17. Eugenie, tall and strongly made, had none of the prettiness which pleases the masses; but she was beautiful with a beauty which the spirit recognizes, and none but artists truly love
18. But still what did the prettiness of a passing girl matter to a prosaic fellow like him? “Besides,” as Stephen added, wisely, to himself, “I’m too old for nonsense, and too young for business—so what’s the use?”
19. She was fair and innocent, of a prettiness more English than foreign, and the scare in her blue eyes made them all the more appealing to the young man
20. Such prettiness as it held, however, was just now stricken out of it by the blanched terror which dominated every curve and line
21. She couldn’t help recalling an incident that had happened two years before, when she had seen herself in that same glass transformed into sudden prettiness by Polly’s skillful fingers, and how her pleasure in her appearance had been turned into humiliation by Simeon’s petty tyranny, when she asked him to pay for her hat
22. The small glass told her that her face was still very attractive, although it had lost much of the girlish prettiness it possessed in the days when Tom had known and loved her; but then—thank Heaven!—she had never cared for such things, and all she wanted was success in her chosen profession, the one thing which she loved in life
