Beautifying

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

When thou present’st me, Gellia, with an Hare, Marcus, thou say’st, ’twill make the seven Days fair. If Hare be such a beautifying Meat, Thou ne’er of one in all thy Life didst eat.

It evidently surpassed his majesty’s comprehension how any sober-minded and sensible individual could entertain the least possible objection to so beautifying an operation [i.e. being tattooed].

[…] I have found exercise far more beautifying than any surgical face-lift.