| 单词 | tawdriness |
| 例句 | And so it's perhaps fitting that at the end of last night's "Apprentice," the show gave a hasty shout-out to wish Michaels well before abruptly cutting to a preview of next week's tawdriness. Don't eulogize Bret Michaels yet 2010-04-26T16:12:00Z Teenage girls may prefer “Blue Lagoon: The Awakening,” but the vote here is for the clunky humor and honest tawdriness of “Piranhaconda.” Critic’s Notebook: New ‘Blue Lagoon’ on Lifetime and ‘Piranhaconda’ on Syfy 2012-06-15T22:34:02Z It adds an extra tawdriness to the characters who try; they are people on the make rather than a nation in search of freedom. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z It’s hard to imagine it now, but there was a time, not so long ago, when Brooklyn was considered to be, in the words of a former resident, “a veritable veldt of tawdriness.” Patti Smith, Paul Theroux and Others on Places Near and Far 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z What’s priceless about “The Front Page” is the way in which it intermingles so deftly the tawdriness and the romance of the job. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Truman Capote, a transplant to the borough, called it a “veritable veld of tawdriness.” Review | The rise, fall and resurgence of Brooklyn 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But its enthusiastic tawdriness is still captivating, as attested by the reboot’s decent ratings. “Dating Around,” Reviewed: Courtship Drama and a Delicious Tingle of Voyeurism 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The immediacy somehow dovetails with the tabloid tawdriness of his biography, with the whole modern celebrity drama. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z They don’t celebrate popular culture so much as point to its hollowness and tawdriness. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It's something about how he simultaneously understands both the cheap and the philosophical urges of narrative plot, how he combines the smallness of human tawdriness and the epic nature of human reach into something coexistent. Stefan Zweig memorial plan dismissed by English Heritage 2012-08-06T09:53:42Z This is a show that pushes buttons and presses the limits of pay-TV tawdriness, and its aggressive vulgarity is a large part of its appeal. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 3: The Women of Wall Street 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z When is someone being pilloried for “larger reasons” and when is it just about the tawdriness? Elmo, Petraeus, Sex, and What Is Our Damn Business 2012-11-13T15:18:28Z Still, for the 1.2 million viewers tuning in for the season finale this month on TLC, the program’s very tawdriness was part of the draw. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z But neither is it sufficiently spectacular in its tackiness and tawdriness to be considered kitsch. New band of the day ? No 960: Parade 2011-02-03T17:26:24Z “The way opera beautifies, intensifies, cleanses the war of its pedestrian tawdriness, the disgusting nature.” How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z One suspects that jumbled structure was used because a linear account of Gotti’s criminal career would reveal little beyond banal tawdriness. Review: John Travolta Has the Dapper Look, but ‘Gotti’ Is a Mess 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it. How The Jerry Springer Show splashed around in humanity’s worst excesses 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z But there's a lesson to be learned here nonetheless for anyone who looks beyond the tawdriness: If a lover seems too good to be true, he or she probably is. Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction 2013-06-19T17:00:15Z “The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying. “The Lovers” and the Limitations of the Modern Rom-Com 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Crude manipulation sits side by side with exquisite subtlety; tawdriness is all mixed up with beauty, meanness with tenderness. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby. El Quijote Tilts Back Toward Its Earlier Glamour 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z We all use the word carelessly, complicit with the ineradicable tinge of tawdriness that it always carries with it. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z So it takes quite a while before Jayne Mansfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, Sonny, Cher and George Hamilton move in, and the tawdriness gets more interesting. Books of The Times: ?Unreal Estate,? by Michael Gross - Review 2011-11-30T22:40:44Z But, after the tawdriness of the spanking story, “it fairly quickly turned to the legal and political aspects.” Perspective | ‘Turn around, drop ’em’ was memorable, but the Stormy Daniels story is really about intimidation 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The solid shape of the dance is overwhelmed by the tawdriness of its silent screams. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center 2012-12-12T22:56:42Z The tawdriness of watching George Conway drag Trump through the mud gets at so much of our psychology these days. Perspective | Kellyanne and George Conway’s tawdry love triangle with all of us 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z We’ve been conditioned to expect something specific from memoirs by children of notable people: escape narratives that reveal the tawdriness or tyranny behind the parent’s publicly charming facade and chart the child’s quest for individuality. Review | A memoir about a godlike father and the literary scene he ruled over 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z McGarrahan’s story renders the tawdriness and banality of crime, the frustrating limits of witnesses and evidence, the hazy frontier between truth and lies, the slipperiness of culpability. Opinion | The death penalty is in the death throes 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z I think that part of Trump’s appeal to religious conservatives is not despite the garishness and tawdriness, it’s connected to it. Ross Douthat Describes the Crisis of the Conservative Coalition 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z But the tawdriness factor alone with this rogues’ gallery of characters is enough to put the lie to Trump’s claim of hiring “only the best” to advise him in business or government. Analysis | Mueller’s probe has produced a rogues’ gallery of liars 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z But for a crowd that was perhaps burning out on the after-hours warehouse scene, it was a well-timed mix of reliably tasteful music and lived-in tawdriness. A new disco den rises from East Hollywood bikini bar Gold Diggers 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness. Harlan Ellison, prolific and pugnacious writer of science fiction, dies at 84 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z So perhaps this tawdriness is what we desire somewhere in the back of our mind? Review | Tom Ford’s new collection is tawdry and vulgar and probably what our culture deserves 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z There is also, inevitably, a certain element of tawdriness. Jarvis Cocker: 'People fall in love with an illusion, something that’s never existed' 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z When Hulk Hogan faced off in court against the Web site Gawker, earlier this year, it was easy to become distracted by the rococo tawdriness of the spectacle. Gawker’s Demise and the Trump-Era Threat to the First Amendment 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The media coverage of this case was, and remains, almost unparalleled in its tawdriness. JonBenét Ramsey: the brutal child murder that still haunts America 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z And yet it somehow managed to tip into something worse in recent days: a twilight zone of politics where sexual tawdriness and assault accusations have become consuming issues in the final weeks of the campaign. Ripples From the ‘How Low Can They Go’ Campaign 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z It is difficult, for instance, to imagine the continued success of one Donald J. Trump without a news cycle already primed for tawdriness and inured to nonsense. We’re all implicated in the messy Gawker case 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “A West 42nd Street garishness and tawdriness characterize the whole reconstruction,” Mr. Mumford wrote. Longing for the Old Penn Station? In the End, It Wasn’t So Great 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Modi conveyed early the audacity – and tawdriness – of power when in May 2014 he flew from Gujarat to the oath-taking ceremony on a private corporate jet emblazoned with the name of his closest corporate chum. Narendra Modi: the divisive manipulator who charmed the world 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “The tawdriness of that is important to understand.” Irish gay groups apply to march in New York St Patrick's Day parade 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Rucci’s spring collection was filled with experiments in texture and transparency, the tension between good taste and tawdriness. At New York Fashion Week: Finding beautiful balance between Nicki Minaj and incremental change Beyond the threat of prison, there is also the sheer tawdriness of the evidence. Sordid public corruption trial for Virginia ex-Gov. McDonnell, wife 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Opened a debate about the 'tawdriness' of the political system, and added much to the Great Beard Discussion of 2013. Jeremy Paxman's top 10 Newsnight moments - in videos 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It also revealed another central CDL tactic: offering enough skin, sleaze and tawdriness to generate some real spectatorial frisson — all in the name of decency, of course. Meet the spiritual forefather of conservatives’ War on Women 2014-04-13T10:59:00Z Sex and tawdriness sell and lead to clicks, of course. 50 Shades of Scandal (and How to Deal With It) 2013-06-14T18:58:00Z At odd times he relapsed into finery, but commonly he affected a simplicity which suited his air and features, and lost nothing by comparison with the tawdriness of his attendants. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z In England she had borrowed the untidiness and tawdriness that degrade the English poor. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z But though these trees of the Pavilion give a grateful shelter from the glare of the sun and the roughness of the wind, they hide little of the tawdriness of that architectural enormity. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The rich gold embroidered border of the saree held the wealth of colour together, and saved the whole from tawdriness. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Looking back at that incident he was sensible of its poverty and tawdriness; he had sacrificed himself for the public good, and the community shared in the joke of it. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z There swept down upon him, if he thought of it at all now and then, only a feeling of the insufficiency, the narrowness, the unworthiness, the tawdriness, of all this which lay about him. The Broken Gate A Novel "Not a very reputable acquaintance, I should imagine," said the great manufacturer, looking thoughtfully down at the bedraggled tawdriness of the dead man's attire. A Traitor's Wooing Looking away from this squalid scene, I became suddenly aware of an unusual amount of paint and gilding on the walls—an art tawdriness that had not before obtruded itself. Love's Usuries An uneasy, shoddy street I thought the Strand, full of insistent tawdriness and of broken-spirited folk whose wretchedness had something in it more despicable than pitiable. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Throughout, from the first line to the last, his story moves on the plane of tawdriness, theatricality, and ballad pathos. A Great Man A Frolic To lack of education he attributed the tawdriness and vulgarity of popular taste. War Letters of a Public-School Boy There is a tawdriness about them all, something artificial and unreal. The Traitors They add a peculiar tawdriness; but the chapel itself, with its dull blue paint, and the strange, bath-like sarcophagus below Rysbrach's statues of the first Lord King and his lady, is the main offence. Highways and Byways in Surrey I remember that, fresh from the dewy morning sunshine without, these symbols rather jarred upon my senses than otherwise, with a strong hint of artificiality and tawdriness, the suggestion of a theatre seen by daylight. The Message The first impression which one receives upon entering the inner precincts of the kraton is of tawdriness and dilapidation. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Some of the howdah cloths represent a fortune in gold and silver bullion, while a few are saved from tawdriness by the skill of the embroiderer in silk. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The picturesque old fought a brave battle with the tinsel and tawdriness of the new. The Traitors As great an impossibility as that vulgarity and tawdriness should not obtrude their ugly heads here and there from under Branwell's finest phrases. Emily Brontë What a contrast to the tawdriness of the steamers we had been accustomed to, to see every thing about us made beautiful by exquisite neatness, done chiefly, too, for their own eyes! Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California This terrace opens directly into the great throne-hall, a lofty apartment of impressive proportions, though its furnishings are a bizarre mixture of Oriental taste and Occidental tawdriness. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China The palace was a curious combination of magnificence and tawdriness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 An unshaded electric-light bulb filled the room with crude light, stripping its poverty and tawdriness naked to the eye its bamboo furniture, its imitation parquet, and the cheap distemper of its walls. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Yet the finished beads, whether attached in thick masses to garments, or strung in long flexible rows, were very comely and without a trace of the tawdriness, which is so characteristic of uncivilized peoples. Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia I won in that moment an impression of the tawdriness of mere beauty which I have never gotten over. A Positive Romance 1898 The white nave was positively arctic to the eye; and the tawdriness of a continental altar looked more forlorn than usual in the solitude and the bleak air. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) I have done my best with you, but you reproduce it in tawdriness. Foe-Farrell The lithographic pictures of the stations to Calvary were, of course, on its walls, and there was the ordinary tawdriness of paint and carving about the high altar. A Chance Acquaintance His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness, his sword hilt too much in evidence. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure—a Madonna with a child. The Tin Soldier 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. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character He forgot the depressing tawdriness of his surroundings in the exhilaration of the sound. A People's Man Then for the first time he realised something of the tawdriness of this life of pleasure, which seemed ever calling to him through the open windows of his lonely room. The Survivor From this period dates the introduction of virtuoso performances with their glittering tawdriness, without substance and without music, and of the frightful eccentricities in art, accompanied by immeasurable vanity and self-conceit,—the age of "finger-heroes." Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances Hygiene has not passed within the Mellah's walls, but a certain amount of Western tawdriness has. Morocco When an outcry is raised against the ugliness and tawdriness of certain objects in this country, the answer is, “But see how cheap they are!” Musical Memories Sir Edward Fry's Commission had none of the tinsel of big names nor the tawdriness of aristocratic apathy. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Gounod's music struggles nobly with the tawdriness and sentimentality of the libretto. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The dresses of court and all were a mixture of splendor and tawdriness that exhausted the savings and pilferings of a twelvemonth. The Flower of the Chapdelaines If sometimes you see tinsel and tawdriness about poor Seneca, look a little deeper, and you seem to see him writing it in agony and bloody sweat. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 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. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Good taste reigning over lavish expenditure has prevented chromatic richness from seeming to approach tawdriness. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs A wall-paper of a cheap and offensive pattern, which had here and there peeled from the plaster, added, Lady Tamworth observed, a paltry air of tawdriness to the poverty of the place. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories Yet there was an indefinable touch of romance and pathos about the tawdriness and witch-like ugliness, and an underlying identity about the crowd of Polish, Russian, German, Dutch Jewesses, mutually apathetic, and pressing forwards. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People We will seek refuge in a quiet cottage, and take with us none of the show and luxury for which men work and sell their souls—none of the tawdriness of life. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 A stranger—the ordinary, unobservant, feebly imaginative person, going along those streets would have seen nothing but tawdriness and poverty. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise His lack of connexion and rhythm became exaggerated by his followers, and the slightest lack of dexterity in the imitator led to a flashy tawdriness such as Seneca himself had as a rule avoided. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The total absence of tawdriness and finery on Sundays, the equally total absence of rags and squalor on week-days, afforded a striking contrast to what we are accustomed to see at home. The Roof of France For he alone, one might say, raised the crisis from the wallow of sordid bargaining, from the tawdriness of sentiment, to a purer passion of Latin ambition and patriotism. The World Decision It seemed impossible that only two miles away was Theatre Street blazing and rioting with all its tinsel tawdriness, flaring lights and whining gramophones. The Shadow of the East No other city on the globe could present quite this combination of tawdriness, slackness, dirt, vulgarity, which was Cottage Grove Avenue. The Web of Life For that brief flash the reporter had been lifted out of his bathos and tawdriness into a clearer element. From a Bench in Our Square And how often he had smiled at the drama on the stage, with its absurdities, its tawdriness, its impossibilities! Man on the Box Vice looks fascinating in the gloaming; the morning shows up the tawdriness and the paint. Without Prejudice Staring wants there were, and many discrepancies and incongruities, but no vulgarities nor coarseness nor tawdriness. The Prospector In its ugliness he perceived only beauty, in its tawdriness only the graces that are sweet offerings to God. The Garden of Allah With that glimpse and that sensation the vulgarity and the tawdriness of their surroundings, the guttering candles in their sconces, the bizarre figures, the unmeaning faces seemed to be whirled far into distant space. Cressy They are utterly destitute of civility and good manners, and are generally squalid in their dress, though the women sometimes exhibit not a little dirty tawdriness.� Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language Their costumes were a mingling of the picturesque with the grotesque; of tawdriness with magnificence; of artificial tinsel and glitter with the regal spoils of the chase; of childlike vanity with barbaric pride. Tales of Trail and Town The professor and Mrs. Wainwright looked like two old pictures, which, after an existence in a considerate gloom, had been brought out in their tawdriness to the clear light. Active Service To us it seems to bear a nearer affinity to the tawdriness of poverty, or the spasms and convulsions of weakness. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Mr. Holroyd's sense of religion," Mrs. Gould pursued, "was shocked and disgusted at the tawdriness of the dressed-up saints in the cathedral—the worship, he called it, of wood and tinsel. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Nevertheless it is impossible to conceal the impression of tawdriness that this latter gentleman's work as head of the National Mission has left upon my mind. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Modest black dresses, pale faces, mournful smiles, and darkness would be far more effective than this clumsy tawdriness. The Schoolmistress, and other stories He looked at the mean, poverty-struck room, he marked the dinginess and tawdriness of its detail and all the sordid evidences of ungracious bargaining and grudging service in its appointments. Soul of a Bishop |
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