Sentence example with the word 'tawdriness'

tawdriness

Definition n. tasteless showiness

Last update: July 15, 2015


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And that same idea which, when launched amidst the surroundings of the Boyne Club, had seemed so brilliant, now took on an aspect of tawdriness.   [Please select]

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The place, however, to which these had given a suggestion of quaint and extraordinary art, was now touched with a certain tawdriness.   [Please select]

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In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure--a Madonna with a child.   [Please select]

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In its ugliness he perceived only beauty, in its tawdriness only the graces that are sweet offerings to God.   [Please select]

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If the color is to be white, we can have no ornament, for the shadows would make it far too conspicuous, and we should get only tawdriness.   [Please select]

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The tawdriness she particularly disliked--the trashy gold and ivory of the decorations, the artificial rose-bushes from which the dust was never removed, the sumptuous velvet carpets which were not taken up in the summer.   [Please select]

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