The most dramatic lighting development in recent years has been the rediscovery of the bulb as an object of beauty.
Times, Sunday Times
Her personality was most charming, her smile an object of beauty.
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She expresses disgust for the society which adored her as an object of beauty rather than as a human being, and abhorred her for profession.
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In times of trouble long ago, the art of the gem carver was to create attractive stores of value as well as objects of beauty.
The Times Literary Supplement
Even the huge stainless steel ventilation ducts are objects of beauty.
Times, Sunday Times