Sentences with phrase «ugliness of»

I had grown VERY tired of the ugliness of my main bathroom.

My children would be shielded from the ugliness of it all.

Part of the ugliness of Android is that you so frequently have to, whether you're looking for app permissions management or just timely updates for many Android phones.

«The market has seen a switch in sentiment from hope of ETF approval to the ugliness of internal fighting,» said Charles Hayter, founder and CEO of CryptoCompare.

At first, I hated the sheer ugliness of the design, which echoes the hyper masculinity of a huge rich guy watch.

Sure, there were a lot of Wal - Marts thrown up in the Aughts, but Daniel Libeskind's addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto surpasses the ugliness of bland functional buildings by being both ugly and useless.

It was my first taste of the ugliness of the legal culture.

As you know, USENET adapted «troll» to apply to the drop - by dive - bombers who visited just to cause fights, by «translating» the assumed visual and mental ugliness of the fantasy troll so that the decribed certain USENET types.

However, Kat took me under her wings and shielded me from the ugliness of dealing with the «other» insurance company.

You should watch the video above for yourself to get the full experience, but my first impression is that these scenes are the artist's view on the ugliness of consumer culture.

When I read the extraordinarily nasty ugliness of a few commenters here, I wonder the same thing.

The beauty of a wood fire, burning free, would be replaced with the ugliness of wood burning in a prison.

Although ridiculed initially by some critics, and cut loose by New York's Marlborough Gallery, Guston was supported by his artist - colleagues, and justified his «ugly» iconography as an reflection of the ugliness of modern life.

A certain kind of creative ruthlessness connects the various artists represented in «Low Life Slow Life,» from the raw ugliness of Robert Mallary's «Little Hans» (1963), a sculpture made of resin - dipped tuxedos, to the sheds - present in the exhibition but sealed shut - containing all the paintings acknowledged as his own by McCarthy's friend, Al Payne, who died during the show's preparation.

«We have a tendency to cover up our flaws and decay, hiding all the ugliness of life,» she says.

The Haskell who spoke next was more considerate, and Kit tried to forget the ugliness of five seconds ago.

The works selected for the exhibition are what is needed now: a moment of private reprieve from the ugliness of the world.

Distracted from the ugliness of the real world.

«You have shown me the ugliness of continued existence.»

There are bright, vibrant colors, solid animation (from Japan's TOEI Animation, of all places), rich detail, and none of the compression problems / ugliness of the Sega CD version.

Not many of us in this generation can personally remember the ugliness of the Great Depression, but we can remember the tense and tough times during the mid 1980s.

Today on NPR: Michigan's new Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is using the ugliness of racism to teach a lesson of acceptance.

Beauty's name belies the ugliness of animal homelessness; so many dogs and cats are victims of neglect and abuse.

How quickly we forget the ugliness of 2008.

The sheer ugliness of its business partially explains why it sports such a high dividend yield at well above 8 %.

While it has been possible to get your eBook for sale at Kobo through Smashwords, the opportunity to directly upload an EPUB to the Writing Life store ensures that Kobo readers receive a professional - quality eBook without the ugliness of.

The ugliness of Lendink's story underscores the malfeasance behind file - sharing hysteria.

But in her last years, she battled the ugliness of cancer for five months until she passed.

The ugliness of indie authors attacking fellow authors was unprecedented and so unfortunate.

Paul Biba over at TeleRead pointed out the other day a post at the Wired blog by Priya Ganapati about the ugliness of eBooks.

Ackerman is above all a sensory writer, and whether her subject is a flock of flamingoes in the middle of Warsaw, or a blitzkrieg of bombs tearing their world apart, her senses play in the fore, undaunted by the beauty or ugliness of what they suss out.

The standard for EPUB apparently remains the ugliness of Palm Pilots circa 1998.

I appreciate agent Barry Goldblatt recanting the ugliness of his initial response, that takes guts:

But like a child who learns the world doesn't pause while he sleeps, Chon begins to recognize the crushing unfairness and ugliness of death's gift.

They can not handle fancy lists or dingbats so I leave them on Map to Unordered or Ordered and accept the ugliness of HTML lists.

His writing often contains elements of mystery and the fantastic, as he tries to find the redemption in the horrific; the surviving heart still left beating among all the sorrow; the beautiful lost somewhere in all the ugliness of the world.

Despite the ugliness of genocide, this book describes human resilience and the strength of love and goodness and the determination to be counted.

Each suffered in her own way from the ugliness of the father and the seeming uncaring of the mother.

It was quite bright and tranquil the day it begun, snow lazily falling and blanketing the world in a soft downy blanket of fluff, drawing a white curtain over all the ugliness of the world.

I felt her decision to share all the ugliness of war with the children was ill advised.

I agree that the presence of flies at a murder scene sets the tone and reference the town's dying state, the crops dying, the drought, the decay, the ugliness of the crime, of death.

That bumper, the real one, is tied to your frame and is actually absorbing the energy from impact where the facade is just existing as a cover due to the ugliness of the actual bumper.

«I was exposed to the real, raw ugliness of people not understanding difference and people not being prepared to engage across lines of difference,» she says of her childhood in Thomasboro.

The dirt, stink and general ugliness of New York's Pennsylvania station should not be attributed to federally - owned and operated Amtrak, as the station's management is the responsibility of New York City and Boston's station is both clean and well appointed.

It mostly just hints at what's happening to Jews in Nazi Germany and never reality lets us see the stark ugliness of racism at its worst.

Despite the grim ugliness of the plot, Triple 9 is still a rather intense piece of filmmaking.

Mark Harris» latest Grantland column about the ugliness of Oscar season — the Age of Outrage meeting Oscar season but lest we forget what happened to Zero Dark Thirty last year, and Lincoln for that matter.

But inAPPropriate Comedy is a barren, laughless wasteland, and the ugliness of its racial stereotypes and crude sexual humor makes it seem about twice as long as its 83 - minute running time (which is really more like 75 minutes padded out with outtakes, bloopers, and an unusually long end - credits sequence).

The filmmakers barely even try to draw comedy from the ugliness of lines like that and «In culinary news, the roasted white skin of innocent bystanders is fast becoming a soul - food staple» — one of those wacky decontextualized news snippets that were clearly added in post-production, like far too many of the film's gags.

Behind the lens, Tudor Vladimar Panduru manipulates a hand - held camera to give the film immediacy while at the same time capturing the ugliness of the landscape.