Beauty's one of those great words with no specific meaning, yet generates a positive response when it's used. What is beauty? Ask 100 people what is beauty and you'll get a fair distribution of answers. Truth is beauty. Nature is beauty. Youth is beauty. There's beauty in honesty. Ms/Mr Universe? Mmm...possibly. There's beauty in grace, in sacrifice, in charity and altruism. There's beauty in struggle, resilience, defiance. There's terrible beauty being born. There's beauty in the mushroom cloud after nuclear detonation. There's beauty in triumph and beauty in defeat. A word that means something different to different people and different circumstances has no specific meaning at all. Take away the meaning and you're left with the positive response.
