(1) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(2) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
(3) The paradox at the heart of the selfie is that it masquerades as a "candid" shot, taken without access to airbrushing or post-production, but in fact, a carefully posed selfie, edited with all the right filters, is a far more appealing prospect than a snatched paparazzo shot taken from a deliberately unflattering angle.
(4) The UK information commissioner, one Christopher Graham, has assured the BBC that respecters of history and truth have nothing, however, to fear: "All this talk about rewriting history and airbrushing embarrassing bits from your past – this is nonsense.
(5) The Tories hit back at Labour’s poster showing an airbrushed picture of Cameron, next to a slogan saying public spending would fall to 1930s levels.
(6) The commission published the parties' election accounts today, revealing everything from their transport costs to viral internet marketing campaigns and PR stunts to the bill for airbrushing their campaign posters.
(7) Feig also spoke in support of the actor after an airbrushed image of a slimmed-down McCarthy was used to promote The Heat in the UK.
(8) David Cameron must have sighed the biggest sigh of his political career when David Miliband was airbrushed out of the picture.
(9) Countries using major sport to burnish their image is not new but the latest trend towards countries using sporting events as an instrument of soft power and investing huge sums in using them as giant billboards to project an airbrushed image to the world feels different.
(10) They want the Coalition to be able to use another slogan – “only Labor increases taxes” – which airbrushes away the tax increases Abbott presided over.
(11) A few years ago, when she agreed to do a photospread in Vogue, she typically turned the assignment into an act of artistic provocation, posing stark, non-airbrushed, naked and - more shockingly still - refusing to wear a single lick of makeup.
(12) Now, rather than airbrushing out Chagos, the mandarins want to paint it green.
(13) For an airbrushed but nonetheless fascinating glimpse of the man himself see the autobiographical Performing Flea and Over Seventy.
(14) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
(15) In Exterminate All the Brutes Lindqvist suggests that we have airbrushed our past: "We do not want to remember.
(16) "Obviously, no Labour or Lib Dem working in parliament would want to airbrush out inconvenient truths about Michal Kaminski, especially just after the creation of the new Tory grouping," he said.
(17) A new storm is breaking.” United, under Van Gaal, give the impression they would like to airbrush Moyes from their history.
(18) There will be no half-full glasses; no stalagmites of loose change; no convention of shoes in a huddle under the bed, on which the duvet cover will rest as smooth as an airbrushed forehead; and the sheets will always match the pillowcases.
(19) "I think it is acceptable to, say, digitally remove a van, builder's skip or washing lines, but I wouldn't airbrush permanent features such as a road sign or electricity pylon."
(20) Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's vast portraits, which adorned facades up and down the capital, with his black dyed hair and wrinkles carefully airbrushed, were ripped from buildings.
Hairbrush
Definition:
(n.) A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it comes to laying in stores for the baby's arrival, we're no longer obliged to rely on the advice of our own parents, which tends to fall into one of two unhelpful camps: "We put you to sleep in a bottom drawer and it never did you any harm"; or "what do you mean, you haven't bought a baby hairbrush?"
(2) Under a newly developed stimulus application procedure (i.e., camel hairbrush applicator).
(3) It was just before her life-changing performance on Britain's Got Talent last Saturday that Boyle revealed her dream: to become a professional singer as successful as Paige - with whom she has sung along countless times, alone, in front of her bedroom mirror, equipped with a hairbrush for a microphone.
(4) Fifty Shades Of Grey is about a shy, studious, 21-year-old virgin who, in exchange for being repeatedly beaten on the clitoris with a hairbrush, gets an iPad and a go on Christian Grey 's helicopter.
(5) The scalp hair of patients with dermatophytosis due to M. canis but without scalp lesions, and that of their family members without dermatophytosis were examined using the hairbrush method.
(6) However, M. canis was isolated from the animal by the hairbrush method.
(7) Dutch police have been visiting the bereaved for counselling but also to retrieve DNA samples such as from hairbrushes, details of tattoos and fingerprints, as well as medical and dental records, to help with the identification.
(8) Results of the hairbrush method performed on the pet two and three weeks later were negative, but, at five weeks, it was again positive.
(9) It's been quite a journey, from a smelly Ford Anglia to a Land Rover full of hairbrushes and hockey sticks.
(10) In a glass-fronted case in the school grounds, there is a collection of confiscated items: makeup, earrings, hairbrushes.