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Julia was from a family of celebrated beauties, and was considered an ugly duckling among her sisters.
* Brittany Murphy as Tai Fraiser: The ugly duckling turned into the beautiful swan.
The flock takes to the air and the ugly duckling spreads his beautiful large wings and takes flight with the rest of his new family.
The ugly duckling is the child of a swan whose egg accidentally rolled into a duck's nest.
A socially awkward, overweight, naïve " ugly duckling ", who is obsessed with the music of ABBA, Muriel Heslop ( Toni Collette ) is the target of ridicule by the more fashion-conscious girls she considers her friends.
She won the title of Miss Junior Snorkland in a beauty pageant with the help of Yucky, a baby rainbow swamp fish ( much like the ugly duckling ).
She landed her first lead role in the 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely to ..., a black comedy written by Joan Rivers about an ugly duckling woman whose car accident leads to plastic surgery ; newly beautiful, she vows murderous revenge on all who had scorned her.
As a yearling, Equipoise was an unimpressive individual and C. V. Whitney thought so little of the " ugly duckling " that he sent him to his " second-string " trainer Fred Hopkins.
Twins felt that they become the ugly duckling as separated individuals.
The Fall 2009 issue of the University of San Francisco literary journal Switchback features a story by Charles Haddox, " The Ugly Duckling ", about a girl who has her own ugly duckling experience after being chosen to play the role of Princess Camilla in her junior high school's production of the play.
* Balut: the ugly duckling embryo: The balut in Filipino culture
It is told from the point of view of a woman who was an " ugly duckling " as a girl and ignored in high school while the popular girls got all of the attention.
He then successfully persuades her to attend a party at Preston's ( Dulé Hill ) house the same night, by making the JV soccer team help clean her house and employing his sister Mac ( Anna Paquin ) to give her a makeover, transforming the ugly duckling into a stunning beauty.
"" If Radiohead are Kennedy ," he smiles, switching to soundbite mode, " then Manic Street Preachers are Nixon: the ugly duckling who had to try 10 times harder than anyone else.
He falls in love with Betty, but keeps his feelings secret from Mario, who constantly teases Armando about having to kiss the ugly duckling.
Il ritorno has been described as an " ugly duckling ", but also as the most tender and moving of Monteverdi's surviving operas, and as one which, though it might disappoint initially, will on subsequent hearings reveal a vocal style of extraordinary eloquence.
It was announced that in her first film I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now ( 1947 ), she would ironically play an " ugly duckling ", supported by " artificial freckles and hornrimmed glasses ".
² However, it can be said that until the end he remained passionate about his " ugly duckling that became the world's favourite airline.
" He also stated that " his real aim in life is to reenact the story of the ugly ducklingand to radiate the kind of extreme tolerance that's so often engendered by extreme sexual ambiguity.
* Danacord entry to Rued Langgaard, " a white duckling who became an ugly swan ".
Bordering the park, we find the Santa Clara Libre Hotel ( formerly the Santa Clara Hilton ), considered by critics and the general population as the ugly duckling of the place.
According to Robert Simpson, though not commonly performed and often thought of as the ugly duckling of Bruckner's symphonic body of work, the Sixth Symphony nonetheless makes an immediate impression of rich and individual expressiveness: " Its themes are exceptionally beautiful, its harmony has moments of both boldness and subtlety, its instrumentation is the most imaginative he had yet achieved, and it possesses a mastery of classical form that might even have impressed Brahms.

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But now she looked ugly.
She hates having to cook, clean, and care for Blanche, who, although stuck upstairs in her bedroom, has nevertheless managed to keep her good looks, while Jane is now aged and ugly.
As the years of the 1950s wore on, Hellman says Hammett became " a hermit ," his decline evident in the clutter of his rented " ugly little country cottage " where " he signs of sickness were all around: now the phonograph was unplayed, the typewriter untouched, the beloved foolish gadgets unopened in their packages.
Justice Frank Murphy issued a vehement dissent, saying that the exclusion of Japanese " falls into the ugly abyss of racism ," and resembles " the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy ".
* the prototype emagi ( electronic magic ) as it was now called, was ugly, and
If it did exist, it would have certainly reared its ugly, hateful head on the Internet by now.
The Labour Party criticised the Conservatives ; with former British Minister for Europe Denis MacShane saying " Tory isolationism is now creating a network of unpleasant, ugly, anti-European parties grouped around Cameron and Hague, but surely they should draw the line at links with gay-bashing homophobes ".
His appearance also changed ; from now on he looked more like a human, yet still ugly.
While sleeping, he dreams of Tomoe, who now smiles at him because he himself has learned how to smile and how to make peace with his present despite his ugly past.
It is now time to unite the community on the race issue before it flares into an ugly reproach for us all.
As the demon — now in its true, ugly form — goes for Buffy, she breaks the stake she was tied to and impales the creature with it.
To get back at Jackie, Fez dyes her hair green, and says that now she is ugly on the outside like she is on the inside.
The nkisi figures brought back to Europe in the nineteenth century in particular caused great interest in stimulating emerging trends in modern art, and African themes previously considered primitive or ugly were now viewed as aesthetically interesting.

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Elsewhere, the emperor had pictures of angels and demons, with the demons having a " most ugly shape, with long hornes, staring eyes ... with such horrible difformity and deformity, that I wonder the poore women are not frightened therewith.
Rakshasa are most often depicted as mean, fierce looking, ugly, large as hills, black as soot, with two fangs protruding down from the top of the mouth, having sharp claw-like fingernails, and growling like beasts.
She discovers that, at least in the context of a camp counselor having sex with a fifteen year-old, sex can be hurtful and its consequences ugly.
Emily Nussbaum for Slate would praise the show for both having a character that many disaffected teenagers could relate to and for showing " the flipside of her principled withdrawal from the world: her crippling terror of rejection, a streak of ugly self-righteousness ".
* The hard rock Supergroup " The Company Band " also wrote a song about the Dr. Phibes Movies, entitled " Love means never having to say you're ugly "!
She has described this album as having even more intensity than her previous works, as she continued her pursuit of songwriting as being in part a way to transform " ugly feelings " into art.
Eliot Cohen wrote in a prominent op-ed piece in The Washington Post that the academic working paper bears all the traditional hallmarks of anti-Semitism: " obsessive and irrationally hostile beliefs about Jews ", accusations toward Jews of " disloyalty, subversion or treachery, of having occult powers and of participating in secret combinations that manipulate institutions and governments ", as well as selection of " everything unfair, ugly or wrong about Jews as individuals or a group " and equally systematical suppression of " any exculpatory information ".
In her biography of Jacinta, Lúcia had already established that Jacinta had told her of having had many personal visions outside of the Marian visitations ; one involved a pope who prayed alone in a room while people outside shouted ugly things and threw rocks through the window.
She seems to have a poor opinion about boys, once having commented that they are, " dirty and ugly creatures.
Supporters do not want to deal with the future inconvenience of having to deal with the flood again, while critics say that the proposed wall would ruin views and make the airport " ugly ".
Ebert wrote in his initial review that " Chaos is ugly, nihilistic, and cruel -- a film I regret having seen.
She has described the campaign as " very ugly ": it included her windows being shot in, her car being destroyed, her campaign headquarters having their windows broken and her supporters suffering serious harassment.
As Attorney General, incensed by those " mercenary corporate executives who are making life so miserable for millions of Californians " without ever having to face " the ugly reality of a prison cell ", Lockyer, during the Enron scandal of 2001 which led to the then-largest corporate bankruptcy in American history, achieved some notoriety for his public quip, " I would love to personally escort Ken Lay < nowiki > CEO Kenneth Lay < nowiki ></ nowiki > to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, ' Hi, my name is Spike, honey '".

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