This is a significant issue in a culture where women were taught to value themselves by their beauty.

She had not won him by her beauty and wit.

Of all the things inside the box, this one most struck the man by its beauty.

He felt them made one by the grace and beauty of that dance.

They gazed at it together, united by beauty and silence.

By beauty he means "anyone in the grip of pleasure or freedom".

They are like everyone else, in that the collection simply takes them over, by the force and beauty of its presence.

Leapor lived in a culture where women were expected to value themselves by their beauty.

They became impressed by the painting's beauty, and asked the owner about it.

I was alive and surrounded by beauty on a massive scale.