21.   Their arching jumpers as pretty as their defense was gritty, the Knicks moved within one game of their first trip to the Eastern Conference finals in three years.

22.   They eventually adhere, and their coastal romance is both as pretty as the seashore and as dangerous as the legend of the angels who live in the bay.

23.   Adding to the festivity were the mounds of ostrich-feather trim, very pretty as ornamentation on a sapphire-blue satin gown.

24.   The mosque is a square, plain affair not as pretty as its minaret.

25.   There was the falling-down, fadeaway jump shot from the corner that was as pretty as any shot Michael Jordan has ever made.