Words similar to it--but

Example sentences for: it--but

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And there was one of Cartier's glorious tiaras on loan, crowning the head of a 6-foot African-American lady wearing the perfect silvery backless gown to go with it--but alas, she had to be followed everywhere by security guards.
It all seems unpleasant and slightly absurd--the night guard is "an excellent form of birth control," as one wearer puts it--but the alternative is losing your teeth at 40, getting dentures, and gumming your food.
Only in one clause does Sontag hint at the conditions underlying the book--"today's hugely complex fashion-and-photography system," she calls it--but the topic at hand is something else, and she veers away.
People went out of their way to attack not just the book--some candidly admitted they hadn't bothered to read it--but Harrison personally, and her husband, her agent, and her publishers for good measure.
It's not that Brown's uninterested in beautiful or ambitious writing--she publishes plenty of it--but she cares most about attention-getting.