Meanings of mere prettiness in English

The wave in its pale gold was the only concession to mere prettiness.

It was no mere prettiness of single Trees, but something massed and mountainous.

There was something bigger than mere prettiness here.

It is necessary to note, however, that joy is not pleasure, and beauty not mere prettiness.

It was more than mere prettiness, he decided, now that he was taking a good look at her.

Sheila's charms went beyond mere prettiness.

I knew what she meant, of course-ather most striking she can make Rose's beauty look like mere prettiness.

His dying speech is touching, though it errs on the side of triviality and mere prettiness (ix.

There was something more than mere prettiness in Polly's face, though Tom had not learned to see it yet.

Nevertheless, it is the inevitable consequence of a prescription of this kind to run into mere prettiness and tuneful emptiness.

In overloading his sentences with jewelry he frequently obscures the sense; his beauties often degenerate into mere prettiness; his sweetness cloys.

So many sculptors like to secure these smooth, meaningless surfaces that excite admiration among those people who care for mere prettiness.

But her enthusiasm was at white heat, and he saw what he had thought mere prettiness in her warm to positive beauty.

It has escaped every pitfall of mawkishness, stubbornly refused to descend to mere prettiness, and lived up to the noblest possibilities of its theme.

Her head, truly charming, was of the purest Sclavonic type-slightly severe, and likely in a few summers to unfold into beauty rather than mere prettiness.

Mere prettiness is a little difficult to place, it does not come between either of our extremes, possessing little character or type, variety or unity.