The text explicitly describes Abigail as " intelligent and beautiful " ( 1 Samuel 25: 3, NIV, also in the JPS Tanakh ).

She was said to have had red hair kept in curls, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, elegant, friendly, and gentle, but she was considered to be insane.

Gratz was widely considered one of the most beautiful and intelligent women in Philadelphia.

Jahangir married the extremely beautiful and intelligent Mehr-ul-Nisa ( better known by her subsequent title of Nur Jahan ), in May 1611.

She was witty, intelligent and beautiful, which was what attracted Jahangir to her.

Classical and Arabic sources describe Zenobia as beautiful and intelligent with a dark complexion, pearly white teeth, and bright black eyes.

A beautiful woman, educated, cultured, intelligent, and sincerely attached to the king, she nonetheless possessed one major shortcoming in the everyone's eyes: she was a commoner, from the bourgeoisie, and even worse, a commoner who meddled in royal politics.

According to Erofeev, Molotov said of her: " She's not only beautiful and intelligent, the only woman minister in Soviet Union ; she's also a real Bolshevik, a real soviet person.

The study of suspension bridges formed for the last few years of my residence in Europe my favourite occupation ... Let but a single bridge of the kind be put up in Philadelphia, exhibiting all the beautiful forms of the system to full advantage, and it needs no prophecy to foretell the effect which the novel and useful features will produce upon the intelligent minds of the Americans.

Margaret was described as intelligent and beautiful, and the marriage was considered a happy one ; her husband was not known to be unfaithful to her.

The government forces citizens to wear " handicaps " ( a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast ).

Jeanne Antoinette was intelligent, beautiful and refined.

According to Vita S. Bathildis Balthild was beautiful, intelligent, modest, and attentive to the needs of others.

The Guardian described him as " fascinating to watch ... intelligent, inventive and full of insights ... delivers the " What a piece of work is man " passage with a beautiful consciousness of human potential.

The cracticines, despite their fairly plain, utilitarian appearance, are highly intelligent and have extraordinarily beautiful songs of great subtlety.

She is presented as a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic English archaeologist-adventuress who ventures into ancient, hazardous tombs and ruins around the world.

Abigail is described in the account as being beautiful and intelligent, and the Haggadah treats Abigail as being one of the four most beautiful people in Jewish history ( the other three being Sarah, Rahab, and Esther ); in the Haggadah it is claimed that David nearly fell in love with her while she was still the wife of Nabal, but Abigail's moral strength and dignity prevented any liaisons, although she is also criticized for stating remember your handmaid, as in the Hagaddah's view this was unbecoming of a married woman.

The series follows Shelly ( Eve ), a beautiful and intelligent woman of the new generation trying to navigate the exhilarating world of 21st century love, romance and career.

Michelle Penelope " Shelly " Williams, a beautiful and intelligent woman of the new generation trying to navigate the exhilarating world of 21st Century love, sex, romance and career.

Upon meeting the beautiful, intelligent, wealthy, and assertive Clarissa, Alan falls instantly in lust, but after he seduces her atop her parents ' dining room table while her parents and Piers are in the next room, she insults his skills as a lover and declares that, once she is married, she will see to it that Piers no longer acts as Alan's lackey.

In childhood as well as adulthood, she was beautiful, intelligent, graceful, confident, charming, and charismatic .” Christabel enjoyed a special relationship with both her mother and father, who had named her after " Christabel ", the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (“ The lovely lady Christabel / Whom her father loves so well ”).

She is beautiful and intelligent, and as teenagers they are happy together.

Amalia was a great art collector, and was described as intelligent, arrogant and ambitious, not beautiful but with a fresh and appealing appearance.

According to Psellos she was very noble, beautiful, and intelligent.

The only way to describe Paula Sandburg is to say she is beautiful in a Grecian sense.

There is only one trouble with this big, beautiful dream.

With the speed and power of the body beautiful he saw before him, Ol' Case wanted No. 7 to be not only the best homerun hitter, but also the best bunter, base-runner and outfielder.

The only woman recipient, Miss Garson will receive the award with Ferdinando Sarmi, creator of chic, beautiful women's fashions ; ;

They know from their researches into television and the movies that knights in the middle ages had beautiful flowing haircuts like Little Lord Fauntleroy, and only the villains had beards.

My head began to ache, and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes, and I hated the job suddenly, and I thought, there are only moments when one sees beautiful things, and these are soon crushed, or they vanish.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of ( 1 ) fitness of the parts to some design ; ( 2 ) variety in as many ways as possible ; ( 3 ) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of fitness ; ( 4 ) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease ; ( 5 ) intricacy, which provides employment for our active energies, leading the eye on " a wanton kind of chase "; and ( 6 ) quantity or magnitude, which draws our attention and produces admiration and awe.

Coins of interest to collectors often include those that circulated for only a brief time, coins with mint errors and especially beautiful or historically significant pieces.

" To answer the world's material needs, technology has to be not only beautiful but also cheap.

Suddenly, at the peak of madness and confusion, the couples are engulfed by their follies, which transform the rundown theatre into a fantastical " Loveland ", an extravaganza even more grand and opulent than the gaudiest Weismann confection: " the place where lovers are always young and beautiful, and everyone lives only for love ".

" He seemed to approach each commission thinking only of it and then develop a way to make something beautiful.

"' Forever Changes ' made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is ," wrote Mark Deming in an entry for the online Allmusic guide.

Some have read dark overtones into The Radiant City: from the " astonishingly beautiful assemblage of buildings " that was Stockholm, for example, Le Corbusier saw only “ frightening chaos and saddening monotony .” He dreamed of " cleaning and purging " the city, bringing " a calm and powerful architecture "— referring to steel, plate glass, and reinforced concrete.

It is a beautiful and luxurious document, rich not only in workmanship but also in the amount of scholarship of multiple medieval disciplines that are integrated in its pages.

For example, to cite Cynthia Freeland's catalogue: " Aristotle says that the courage of a man lies in commanding, a woman's lies in obeying ; that " matter yearns for form, as the female for the male and the ugly for the beautiful ;" that women have fewer teeth than men ; that a female is an incomplete male or " as it were, a deformity ": which contributes only matter and not form to the generation of offspring ; that in general " a woman is perhaps an inferior being "; that female characters in a tragedy will be inappropriate if they are too brave or too clever "( Freeland 1994: 145-46 )

The end result has been sacrifice of a beautiful yet delicate ecology that has been in harmony for hundreds of years, for structures that are erected only a few years, yet will have a lasting detrimental effect.

Art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote about Anguissola that she " has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

The great early art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote this about Anguissola: " Anguissola has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

Zanzibar is characterised by beautiful sandy beaches with fringing coral reefs and the historic Stone Town – said to be the only functioning ancient town in East Africa.

" Finding the " boy " both beautiful and somehow familiar, the king resolves not only to spare " Fidele's " life but also to grant " him " a favour.

Later Sirens were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive.

Mount Oberon affords beautiful views that are only mildly marred by a radio aerial close by.

The room inside the dome was described by a visitor as " a noble and beautiful apartment ," but it was rarely used — perhaps because it was hot in summer and cold in winter, or because it could only be reached by climbing a steep and very narrow flight of stairs.