beautiful
the beautiful game football.
☞ The phrase has been attributed to the Brazilian footballer Pelé, who called his autobiography My Life and the Beautiful Game (1977), although in fact there is earlier evidence of it being applied to cricket.
the beautiful people
1 fashionable, glamorous, and privileged people.
2 (in the 1960s) hippies.
❶ 2005Ron MwangaguhungaThe Corsair It's our job to manufacture Eurogods for the masses to worship. We discover, and if we cannot discover, we manufacture the beautiful people. C'est tout!
the body beautiful an ideal of physical beauty.
2009Erica BartleGirl with Satchel The issue (body image campaigning, that is) is overwhelmingly complicated, what with all of popular culture geared towards the worship of the (slim, blemish-free) body beautiful.
small is beautiful: seesmall.