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Example sentences for: ugliness

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Improvements in architecture, regaining intimate space and scale and all the rest, won't disguise the ugliness of advertising the local bank, Chevy dealer, and chain retailer as a backdrop for baseball.
At one point, Joe muses that Dirac's early theory of quantum electrodynamics was slow to gain acceptance because it was aesthetically unappealing--"Acceptance withheld on grounds of ugliness"--and this phrase could well serve as the novel's ironic motto, for its plot is littered with examples of this prejudice.
Abortion is necessarily an ugly business, and it doesn't do them any good to debate the extent of its ugliness.
At times, Duvall seemed to be sentimentalizing the gypsies; at others, he seemed to be rubbing our noses in their ugliness and duplicity--or was that just my racism?
People who are attractively slim do not talk about the ugliness of obesity in the presence of people who are grossly overweight.