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  • Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.

    Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything 2010

  • It offered less news and more opinion, anchors became shouters, sets and graphics were cosmeticized, the simple was replaced by the ornate and clean, hard facts were transformed into talking points.

    Reese Schonfeld: 2010 and a Happy New Year Message to CNN Reese Schonfeld 2010

  • It asks the question do we really need to disinfected, preserved, cosmeticized and deodorized after death.

    Mallika Chopra: Do You Want to Be a Rhododendron After You Die? 2010

  • It offered less news and more opinion, anchors became shouters, sets and graphics were cosmeticized, the simple was replaced by the ornate and clean, hard facts were transformed into talking points.

    Reese Schonfeld: 2010 and a Happy New Year Message to CNN Reese Schonfeld 2010

  • But given a choice of whether to experience the game as it is -- by actually being there -- or to consume the experience packaged, filtered and cosmeticized by television, I'll choose the former every time.

    Dave Hollander: Sports on TV Better with the Sound Off 2008

  • These are not cosmeticized pictures of this terrible reality that now threatens to expand to yet more regions of the world.

    The Real Face of War 2007

  • Offworld billions cosmeticized the Zone, and Corporation police forces maintained its sanctity at gunpoint.

    Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

  • The authors of the legislation have cosmeticized it with tax breaks and tax cuts.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Laurents thinks the cast of "West Side Story" should look and act like "young killers" and that the show's theme is tragic, not cosmeticized: "Love cannot survive in a world of bigotry and violence."

    unknown title 2009

  • We were in the makeup room being cosmeticized for appearances on a cable television show.

    The American Spectator 2009

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