The fairy tale " The Ugly Duckling " by Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of a cygnet ostracised by his fellow barnyard fowl because of his perceived homeliness.
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Critic George Warren Arms believed Holmes's poetry to be provincial in nature, noting his " New England homeliness " and " Puritan familiarity with household detail " as proof.
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Campbell described Blair as having in his poetry " a masculine and pronounced character even in his gloom and homeliness that keeps it most distinctly apart from either dullness or vulgarity ".
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Aesthetically, it's a load of bad faith : the simplicity of the complex, the homeliness of the glamorous, the modesty of the immodest, the insouciance of the careerist.
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She was described as " extraordinarily fat, and one of the most plain-featured princesses of Germany, her homeliness being of the crabbed and sour order rather than of a genial nature ".
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Marilyn herself is all too aware of her " homeliness " and bemoans that she keeps scaring off potential boyfriends, having no clue that the young men are in fact frightened away by her monstrous family.
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To art critic Robert Hughes, the painting represents the theme of family continuity, virtue, homeliness, and abundance without extravagance in a Puritan tone, as confirmed by the modest beverage choice of water.
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Mrs . Wormwood, who is practicing with her dancing partner Rodolfo, mocks Miss Honey's education and ( perceived ) homeliness, insisting that appearance matters more than intelligence ( " Loud " ).
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Others can click on the hot-or-not poll stripped across the top of the page and rate your hotness, or homeliness, on a scale of 1 to 10 . www . amihotornot . com
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So when Apple Computer introduced its boldly fruit-colored line of iMac and G3 computers last year, it brightened millions of desktops but also called attention to the homeliness of most other peripherals in its general vicinity.
