Definition of beuty
1. beauty [ n ] the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
Used in print:(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)
Compare the vast difference in scope and beauty between his neat and witty little Classical_Symphony and his big , muscular , passionate , and eloquent Fifth_Symphony ; or the Love_for_Three_Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful , imaginative , colorful , and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet , The Stone_Flower .
(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)
Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty .
(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)
If art is to release us from these postulated things [ things we must think symbolically about ] and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy , it must sever its connection with these common_sense entities '' .
William_Wimsatt and Cleanth_Brooks , it seems to me , have a penetrating insight into the way in_which this control is effected : `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) - then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification , compounding , or magnification , or any direct assault upon the affections at_all .
The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment : contrast the perceptual skill of English_professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor_cars , political candidates , or female beauty .
Synonyms beauty Related Terms ugliness appearance glory comeliness handsomeness glamor prettiness pleasingness pulchritude raw_beauty exquisiteness picturesqueness attractiveness deck beautiful ugly2. beauty [ n ] a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Used in print:(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)
Not everyone is bewitched by Byron 's caliphs and harem beauties '' .
Synonyms beauty mantrap looker sweetheart stunner peach lulu knockout dish ravisher smasher Related Terms woman stun3. beauty [ n ] an outstanding example of its kind
Examples:
"his roses were beauties"
"when I make a mistake it's a beaut"
(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)
I sought_out the gardener and asked him what he did to produce such beauties in that weather .
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