Worse still, even the minor facelifts the company's limited budget allowed seemed to go drastically wrong: witness the final Diamantes imported to the U.S. or the progressive uglification of the Galant sedan. (Autoweek.com)
But it seems evident that the target must have been, in part, the form of life in which the affluence of the Reagan years expressed itself in collecting art, in «getting in on the ground floor» through acquiring paintings that were certain to appreciate in the way that Abstract Expressionist paintings had done - so that «bad painting» was a kind of willed uglification, a refusal to be complicit in the agenda of painting - as - luxury. (davidrisleygallery.com)
Hey David, I don't know if you get enough hits from the UK to justify the extra typing / uglification of your links, but I'd make sure to use your Amazon.co.uk click - throughs if you had»em. (4thletter.net)