| 单词 | tinselly |
| 例句 | Sutcliff brings the reader's senses alive – her tracks are strengthened by "corduroys of logs", her forests "boar-hunted", her burning wood collapses "with a tinselly rustle" into the fire. The Eagle of the Ninth: a children's classic that stands the test of time 2011-03-21T20:00:02Z It also feels like a postmodern spin on pictures like The Producers and Wag the Dog, with practitioners of the showbiz black arts creating tinselly illusions. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z A tiny Norfolk spruce sits in a pot on the windowsill, oppressed with some outsize tinselly stars. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z At 6 p.m., a small crowd, that would grow to several hundred as the evening wore on, gathered at the tinselly Task gate, signed in and entered along a runway hung with bright crepe-paper streamers. Oliver Herring at a Task party at Madison Square Park 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z There are turkeys to be reared and tree-shaped biscuits to be baked, but if you're tempted by the idea of a homemade tinselly advent candle contraption, let this be a cautionary tale. TV highlights 28 December 2010-12-20T04:05:01Z “Upstairs” meant the museum’s fourth and fifth floors, where “Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle,” on view through Feb. 19, is currently offering perhaps the city’s most glittery, tinselly, witty display of bling this holiday season. Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z But the larger part lies in my conviction that the most beautiful and tinselly bauble to be found on Dec. 25 is reduced airfare. Circa Now: Some People Celebrate Christmas by Dodging It 2013-12-20T21:46:19Z They were a bit cringeworthy, I thought, but I wanted a tinselly, childlike vibe for an evening house party. Perspective | Reporter still haunted by Itaewon crowd crush, a tragedy close to home 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z There’s something about Christmas – maybe it’s the Dickensian tradition of intergenerational reflection, or maybe it’s because people will buy any old bilge if it’s tinselly enough – that just screams “harrowing displays of artistic theft”. Rest in no peace: the creepiest duets with dead singers 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Still, as he reaches his 70th birthday, Wood’s is an oeuvre that’s ripe for rediscovery and reassessment: the sound of Britain’s great lost pop genius lurks just behind the familiar tinselly facade. Britain’s lost pop genius: the glam rocker who hated being in the spotlight 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Hoedown in Arlington If they played an inconsequential basketball game in a tinselly stadium before more than 100,000 people, would it make a peep? 2010-02-16T03:10:00Z It is difficult for us, placed as we are so far from that tinselly age, to form an idea of the fever and furore of admiration which raged in Venice for these two men. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Spangles of gold may be used with admirable effect, at the risk, perhaps, of a rather tinselly look; but that has been often most skilfully avoided both in mediæval work and in Oriental. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery His baits are always of a tinselly or shadowy nature, either worthless when caught, or altogether illusions, as useless to people in general as the gold chains and silk waistcoats are to these rough pirates. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman He has no military fervour, no tinselly patriotism. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo His few tindery and tinselly affairs suspected of following the obvious formula: three parts curiosity, three parts the literary sense, three parts crude young impulse, one part distilled moonshine. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 The place was so tinselly and common that, coming to it from weeks of rough travelling, it made me impatient. Greenmantle A Punch and Judy were acting on a little stage during the procession, surrounded by children of all sizes and ages decked out in costumes, their tinselly flowers showing off their thin and sallow faces. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters In some worldly respects, I was still a child: I cared little for its pomps, its small honors, its puny efforts, its tinselly displays. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story |
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