unbeautiful

Brown says that, like Boyle, they are the "unbeautiful", ignored by their bosses despite their diligence, dismissed by advertisers, ignored by popular culture.

NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

We know, however, that Beethoven had some poetic idea in his mind as he wrote this; but as he never gave the clew to the world, the music has been swallowed as 'absolute music' by the modern formalists "-- a comment which would apply almost word for word, with a change of names and titles, to a certain tumultuous and" unbeautiful "passage in MacDowell's" Lancelot and Elaine. "

Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

That scene at the end of the movie Elizabeth, when she goes 'alright, f--k it, I'm going to succumb to my destiny and be queen' and she becomes unbeautiful.

Fear And Clothing: Cintra Wilson's Fierce Fashion Prowess 2011

As to me, I could pick apart the little things about my face or my personality that make me feel decidedly unbeautiful.

Some Shape Of Beauty - Her Bad Mother 2010

Suppose there was something else in my life that took the other ninety-nine parts, and, furthermore, that ruined my figure, that put pouches under my eyes and crows-feet in the corners, that made me unbeautiful to look upon and that made my spirit unbeautiful.

Chapter XIX 2010

And the shop that stood between the pawnshop and the shop of dreary indecency showed with quite a blaze of old world beauty, for it was, by accident, a shop not unbeautiful in itself.

Weatherwatch: City streets paved with gold 2011

A little later Balatta had returned, bringing with her a half-dozen women who, unbeautiful as they were, were patently not so unbeautiful as she.

THE RED ONE 2010

A character can be a Mary-Sue and have the writer blathering on and on (and on, and on) about how unbeautiful she is.

Who Mary Sue Isn’t at SF Novelists 2010

Squat and lean at the same time, asymmetrically limbed, string-muscled as if with lengths of cordage, dirt-caked from infancy save for casual showers, she was as unbeautiful a prototype of woman as he, with a scientist's eye, had ever gazed upon.

THE RED ONE 2010

For a book that intends to be unbeautiful, "plodding", sometimes it makes all the difference to expect that as you enter the narrative.

Furies 2009