单词 | gimcrackery |
例句 | Prague is emerging from the pandemic with less touristic gimcrackery and more local flavor. Your Monday Briefing 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z It was like a good sanitary cubicle filled with second-hand gimcrackery, but still the same good cubicle, still in essentials exactly like a few thousand more. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Yes, among all that rather trashy lacquer and glass in that rather gimcrackery little drawing-room of hers. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Shops are sufficiently numerous, filled with manufactured goods from Europe and the United States, with lots of gimcrackery from China. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Although we are doing our best, with our love for gimcrackeries, to cheapen and degrade the artistic capacity of Japan, our evil influence has been but partially felt, and so but partially successful. Japan A Record in Colour He could make coffee, after the Turkish fashion, and had equipped himself for a long campaign with a most elaborate coffee machine, all glass and gimcrackery, which of course did not survive one day's travel. Bulgaria "A man who can kiss a woman's hands like that is at liberty to clear the whole house of gimcrackery." Septimus I did think it gimcrackery; but, to tell the truth, I never really saw it at all. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Even a desire to possess works of art is shown by Ionian pillars, specimens of pure Gothic, and other architectural gimcrackery, and these prove at least the search after improvement. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 "Mine," says DIVINITY, "pursue a system of gimcrackery, Called Puseyism, a pack of stuff, and quite as arrant quackery." The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 In effect, then, the foundation of the hat appeared to be a black straw, with a wide, straight brim, the trimming being a gimcrackery sort of material whose name for the moment has escaped me. The Gates of Chance Well, Mrs. Waterlow evidently didn't think it gimcrackery, or, if she did, she didn't mind. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece |
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