1.   Love, altruism - just pretty words.

2.   Love, altruism -- just pretty words.

3.   And when a solo performer occupies a stage for nearly two hours, the pretty words grow a little monotonous.

4.   Choke is not a pretty word in the idiom of professional sports.

5.   Pretty words.

6.   Pretty words from a mayor who is carefully crafting a personality makeover as he shops around for a higher office.

7.   Pretty words that evoked more mood than meaning.

8.   Such pretty words for a pretty spring morning.

9.   The IRA has made lofty promises before, but the promises have never gone beyond pretty words.

10.   These are not problems that can be papered over with pretty words and the passage of a little time.