It is so frightful to be in an atmosphere of family idiosyncrasies; to see all the hereditary Uncomeliness or infirmity of body, all the defects of speech, all the failings of temper, intensified by concentration, so that every fault of our own finds itself multiplied by reflections, like our images in a saloon lined with mirrors!
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
I did not notice this peculiar Uncomeliness until she was dying, and I felt then more than ever that she was not to be judged in accordance with our standard of beauty-though she had many of our little weaknesses.
"The Confessions of a Beachcomber"
E J Banfield