Relatively beautiful?

I need some help with a paper.
The phrase "relatively beautiful". Think about the phrase for a minute, then give me some examples of something(it can be hypothetical) that you would consider "relatively beautiful"(explain the context so I understand why it's "relative"), or if you think there is even such a thing a "relative beauty".
Examples and thoughts on the phrase are what I'm looking for.
And please, be original. No, "Everything's relative" Just your thoughts.
Thanks.

 

Yes and no. To the person looking at her/him/it, usually a spouse in my example, they are beautiful. Not relatively, but just plain and simple. To a bystander, she/he/it is relatively beautiful, because they are comparing it to their own perfect beauty. You get it.

 

relative beauty...that would be something that somebody thinks is beatiful in comparison to something else.

 

Janet Reno is "relatively beautiful" to a bloody train wreck.

 

I don't just mean people, in fact that's not really what I mean at all. Anything else.

 

I know, but even so. A favorite flower will always look nicer than the flower next to it

 

Some people consider vehicles to be beautiful. I for one find the Naboo N-1 Starfighter to be very elegant and, yes beautiful. But compare it to the female form and it falls very short.
You can desribe effects as beautiful, like some of the effects in AOTC. The effects of the Geonosians were beautifully made. But again, when made relative to the female form, they once again fall short.

You can tell that I fancy someone at college who I'm not going out with, can't you?

 

The only good response I've gotten which used a person as an example was someone who lived in NY who saw a pretty homeless girl, about 8 yrs. old, in rags with dirt on her face, but she had a beauty about her. Didn't get a good explanation, but it was an interesting example.

 

Yes, but comparing women and vehicles is like comparing apples and oranges. You can't say, "Boy, that is one hot car. Hotter than that jogger. I mean, she doesn't have the transmission of this baby, and..." etc.
Oh, try Senate, from the direction this things seems to be going.

 

Relatively beautiful, eh? Sounds like something that would be popular in Appalachia.

 

I've been gone for 7 months, I'm not familiar with the senate?

 

True, but I'm doing the best I can when I don't have this paper due in and never have had a paper like it, therefore have never thought about it before.

I'm doing the best I can.

 

A new forum for serious discussion. One sec, I can link you.
Edit: The Senate Floor

 

The obvious direction to take this is that if something, a person, thing, thought, action, whatever, has beauty than it just has beauty, in which case there would be no "relative beauty", just beauty. But I wanna examine the other side. I just need a really good example to trigger some thought.

 

Well, Luke had the hots for Leia; he thought she was beautiful, and she was a relative.

 

This place has gone to hell since I left. The collective IQ has plummeted. But we still family

 

I think that what people find beautiful is diffierent for every individual ....I think everyone and everything is beautiful to someone

 

I'd actually say SWiscool makes a good point that you could use as an angle in your paper. One can not compare the beauty of an object to that of a person. In that way, beauty is relative to the type of subject.

Meh.

Oh, and if you think collective IQ has plummeted, then u r teh ro><><!!!1!!!

I'd say that just dropped below the radar of IQ

 

Why not take this thought and run with it?

Pretty ugly

 

As you said, since the IQ seems to be dropping, do the senate. Best bet for a serious discussion.
_jOBO

 

A lone dandelion growing on a decimated battle field would be relatively beautiful. It doesn't compare to most other flowers in a garden, but in a ravaged battlefield it's beautiful and touching.

 

thanks

 

Oh, the IQ has not been dropping. If anything, the chowderheads run thicker in the Senate than they do here.

 

A face only a mother could love.

 

Did I strike a nerve?