| 单词 | meretricious |
| 例句 | He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Let us be thought over-much plain and simple, even bare, rather than gaudy, flashy, cheap and meretricious. Let us manifest the taste of gentlemen.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Maybe the best way to summarize “The Gunman” is that it’s a terrible idea, a fatal morass of meretricious values and bogus sentimentality, which is executed really, really well. “The Gunman”: Sean Penn’s idiotic, glorious and doomed leftist thriller 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z How can he revise this meretricious manuscript, “this three-hundred-page crime against truth,” without betraying his mother’s childhood friend? Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Still, some folks discover the secret to thwarting the meretricious allure of the evanescently contemporary. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z For those who already found his records distasteful, his antics proved his music to be the bombast of a narcissistic clown, the meretricious noise of a child drunk on his own Kool-Aid. Kanye West’s post-Taylor Swift fallout: How he returned from spiritual exile with his masterpiece 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z As evidence of this trend, Smith cites Rhonda Byrne's self-help bestseller, The Secret, which he describes as "meretricious", and from what he quotes of it here, I would say he is being polite. Luck by Ed Smith – review 2013-04-23T09:00:01Z “Cherry” is written without an ounce of self-pity by an author allergic to the meretricious poetry of despair. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z First, an attack on the meretricious "horse racing" of books prizes, followed up by a left hook at sponsor Booker McConnell's roots in colonial exploitation. Authoring a rejection of acceptance-speech cliché 2013-03-01T13:49:00Z Her voice and mannerisms drenched in meretricious satire, von Fliss eschews actual rich perspective on her dad to flippantly dive into anything goes misery disguised as jokey, "scientific" inquiry into the nature of loss. Review: 'Cancer: The Musical' suffers from unappealing treatment of its subject 2010-06-10T20:54:00Z Like Daisy, the book is derided as pretty and meretricious. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z People who are capable of the heroic acts of faith required of today's Catholics should not be mocked by being fed such meretricious pap. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z Comprising fourteen states with such meretricious names as Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia, which recall spectacularly sad events—whipped Negroes, horse-rustling, and cotillions—the South, he thought, is like a landlocked island. A Young Black Boy Looks at a Photograph of a Young Black Boy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It was perhaps just as well that he cared little for comic books, which he called “meretricious dreck.” Bill Blackbeard, Comic Strip Champion, Dies at 84 2011-04-29T23:46:48Z It’s not a grubby book, or a meretricious book, it’s an amazing piece of scholarship. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z Quite often, when good writers write gracelessly, they are trying to sell us on a meretricious concept. Aaron Sorkin’s masturbatory falseness: Sony’s stolen emails, “The Newsroom” and a bankrupt NYT op-ed 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Mediocre actors are often undone by great material, but good ones can burnish even meretricious nonsense with craft and conviction. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z “Celestial Beauty” is not about the kind of worldly, meretricious beauty that today’s Savonarolas eagerly indict. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z On Quentin Tarantino: “I find his work meretricious. It’s all surface.” Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Artistically, the films in question range from the majestic to the meretricious. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Mussolini's 23-year regime, she says, was as meretricious as it was vile. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders |Book review 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z On the other hand, you have Nabokov’s “Ada,” a massive, strenuously written novel, often beautiful but ultimately meretricious. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The further literature is driven to the outskirts of the culture, the more it is cherished as a sanctuary from everything coarse, shallow and meretricious in that culture. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z At his funeral in 1994, statesmen uttered some predictable banalities, but those meretricious words registered only because they conspicuously omitted or masked so much. Was Richard Nixon a Tragic Hero? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Gherkins, chilli pastes, magenta relishes – the most whorish of condiments spilt their meretricious goo on to the pastas, roasts and bakes of my nonage. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z We have meretricious beauty that shows up from time to time. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z It should not be “flashy, meretricious, blaring. After a tremendous fanfare of verbal trumpets, a mouse comes out of a hole blinking.” The Gloom, Doom and Occasional Joy of the Writing Life 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Today, more often than not any artistic work itself is subordinated to the "vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" that is celebrity culture, but Gatsby's pleasures transcend the pleasure-seeking world that it indicted. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Lawrence, Nijinsky and Sri Ramakrishna rejected the meretricious facade of the world around them and tried to break through to some larger, truer reality. UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The economic crash of 1929 descended on America like an ice age, ending a meretricious prosperity. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z His work wasn’t a branch of publicity even as it sought to elevate the truly excellent from the meretricious. Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Fox could argue, plausibly if uncomfortably, that some of its performers are entertainers lacking aptitudes, motives or incentives for making journalistic judgments about meretricious statements uttered on their programs. Opinion | How the Dominion defamation suit against Fox News will test a Delaware court 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Even in his last decades, when he might have basked in the eminence of his international reputation, he was still experimenting, still trying to separate the essential from the meretricious. Appreciation: The radical majesty of British theater director Peter Brook 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z How do we convince people that they should reject the meretricious puffery they find inspiring? Review | Michelle Huneven’s ‘Search’ offers spiritual wisdom — and cookies 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “You rediscover some small things, spending time with the children and the family,” keeping up with her father by Skype, noting that for once, social media is proving to be more beneficial than meretricious. Europeans Erect Borders Against Coronavirus, but the Enemy Is Already Within 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z As anyone who follows Trump on Twitter knows, his tweetstream is meretricious beyond belief, an unending torrent of lies, vulgar abuse, contradictions, mawkish sentimentality, incitements to violence and narcissism. @realDonaldTrump shows Twitter knows which side its bread is buttered | John Naughton 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z As the master of darkness who had been captured in darkness stepped into the bright light of Fort Lauderdale, he was his usual flamboyant, unapologetically meretricious self. Opinion | Stone-Cold Loser 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The justices’ supposed transgression is that they stopped the union from benefiting from misleading voters with a meretricious wording of a ballot initiative. Opinion | Arizona voters can save their judiciary from its spiral into politics 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z For some, RT may be a meretricious outpost that persists in putting food on George Galloway’s table. José Mourinho and RT – a World Cup partnership made in heaven | Paul MacInnes 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z But, while the sentiments that night on Cohn’s estate were as slobbering as those around Donald Trump’s table yesterday, they weren’t as meretricious. Where Trump Learned To Love Ritualized Flattery 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Even the title of the CAP’s response to Howard’s arguments for more pertinent and efficacious environmental reviews is meretricious: “Debunking the False Claims of Environmental Review Opponents.” Opinion | How we waste a massive amount of infrastructure money — before building even starts 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z A frequently cited study purporting to prove otherwise was meretricious: It stressed income levels of Zip codes where NEA-funded institutions are, inferring that institutions located in low-income areas are serving low-income people. Opinion | Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the establishments in the Democratic and Republican parties – both wedded to the rule of Big Money and to the reign of meretricious politicians. Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here | Cornel West 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z And then there’s Mr. Pence, a man whose job has been to provide evangelical cover to Mr. Trump’s meretricious version of New York values. Donald and the Enablers 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Those telling the story today say he engineered a meretricious blip in the stock price, suckering other investors to buy shares, then bailed. Yahoo’s Mayer Can Still Be a CEO Hero 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z A happy amalgam of everything that was wrong with musicals of the era — one-note characters, silly plots, dumb songs and meretricious dances — “Good News!” exists only to entertain. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Good News!’ in East Haddam 2013-05-18T06:02:50Z Our salvation is being worked out not in some idealized past but in the often meretricious here and now. What to Look for in a New Pope 2013-03-09T00:05:49Z It is a meretricious attempt at acceptance by modeling the lovely figure of a young girl and adding a brutal slash to reveal the fetus. Damien Hirst's Verity: Would You Want a Vivisected Pregnant Woman on Your Seaside? 2012-10-17T07:50:29Z Stephen Jay Gould, in his book “The Mismeasure of Man,” provided ample evidence that meretricious findings are often produced by impressively meticulous quantifiers. How our love for numbers warps school reform 2012-09-21T15:30:00Z This is a meretricious gauge of fiscal "seriousness." Today's Economist: Laura D'Andrea Tyson: Evidence vs. Ideology in the Medicare Debate 2012-08-24T10:00:03Z I strongly advise those who can afford to purchase these beautiful copies to garnish their sideboards with plate of this description, rather than with the meretricious electro-plate which we often see in our shop-windows. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It may be meretricious, it may be gilt rather than of gold. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z Grecian art had sunk into a meretricious skill; poetry was little more than a trick of words; philosophy, a wrangling of the schools. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The devotees of the French spirit, in its frivolity and meretricious beauty, they turned away from with disdain. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z They do not ask too much of it, but on certain points their demand is inexorable, and it is very seldom that a simply meretricious quality goes far with them. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z In an age when sexual excitement had become available and permissible, this worshiper of stimulus never touched with so much as a fingertip that insidious and meretricious fruit. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Yet how often does the search after false originality lead only to meretricious cleverness or vulgarity, which creeps in unseen during the too close struggle with the craft.131 But our muttons need tending. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z Even meretricious Paris sometimes harpoons an honest American heart more deeply than is fit. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z Sordidness rejected The Atlantic traditions, for the most part, have rejected the harrowing and the sordid and the meretricious. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z “That’s all easily explained,” he said with a smoothness almost meretricious. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z A pintura de la Feria became a term in Spain for a meretricious picture. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Worse still, he poses for her: becoming meretricious and insincere. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It was greatly improved when the colossal statues which stood at the bases of the piers were removed, and the side chapels cleared of their altars and rather meretricious adornments. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z His face possessed a certain measure of meretricious good-looks, evidently he was a lady-killer; one of the cheaper varieties of that species. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z He rejects as meretricious ornament and illustration which, as he himself declared, he would have considered not only admissible but desirable in a review. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z For, though his intolerance is great, it is not directed so much at honest ignorance as against meretricious art. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The night was a dark one, and not a soul was to be seen or met: for he was now outside the meretricious circle of which at that hour the Holborn Casino is the centre. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Say a hundred works are meretricious and nominated merely to please their authors. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z Do not imagine, like Macbeth, that by ‘becoming worse,’ and keeping up a meretricious swagger, you may extricate yourself from your unhappy position. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z The memory of those bold meretricious phrases, those smiling innuendoes, dissipated or darkened them, as cumuli darken the sun. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z They were exceedingly meretricious in their art; they were the most modern specimens of that style of Japanese handicraft which is produced exclusively for the English market. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z It is now used only by meretricious persons and by those harridans of higher rank who resemble them in every respect, except that the former are ashamed of their profession, and the latter advertise it. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Thus over-reaching itself, art becomes an anxious striving after display, and, like an affected and meretricious woman, repels the sounder natures which had else been attracted by her beauty. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Denise pulled out a stole of brown fox—a huge thing, covered with tails, but meretricious, showy; the satin of the lining crackled as she touched it. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Because of the way WebMD frames health information commercially, using the meretricious voice of a pharmaceutical rep, I now recommend that anyone except advertising executives whose job entails monitoring product placement actually block WebMD. The Medium: A Prescription for Fear 2011-02-04T16:00:00Z And Sybil, while missing their real value, which lay in their historical accuracy, might well be forgiven for her childish delight in their meretricious splendor. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z It is replete with meretricious pseudo psychological "insights". Liz Jones plumbs the depths in report on Joanna Yeates murder 2011-01-19T09:36:58Z Latin, especially in the provinces; and, as has been said, the literary output of the last age of Paganism was marked by sterility of thought and meretricious redundancy of expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z The invention of the sewing machine was the signal for the appearance of frills and furbelows, and meretricious ornament of every kind. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z And then the commonplace aspect of the houses, with all their whitewash and their rows of fragile and meretricious flower-pots; the parched barrenness of the vegetation, the dirt of the natives! The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Satisfied by his answer, she ushered him into a room where a gas fire burned feebly with an apologetic air, as though painfully conscious of its meretricious logs. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z It may look meretricious, whimsical, expensive and bonkers. A lane with no limits 2010-07-18T20:30:00Z Moreover, trustbusters are as much settlers of disputes between rival firms as guardians of vibrant competition, and that dual role may encourage meretricious cases. Antitrust in the European Union: Unchained watchdog 2010-02-18T10:42:00Z Some, like the great cathedral of Valladolid, of more pretension, but still showing the same austere character in their designs, furnished excellent models of architecture to counteract the meretricious tendencies of the age. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Her face was rouged and powdered, but in the brilliant electric glare it seemed neither out of keeping nor meretricious. The Gay Adventure A Romance Cheap and meretricious, the toy was saved from vulgarity by the colour which glowed like a pigeon-blood ruby. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z His own gray image of Pallas Athene seemed now to be decked with meretricious roses. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They find there the door of escape from weariness and monotony, a false joy of life and a meretricious colour lighting up drab and grey days. Stand Up, Ye Dead Even Mrs Major Dartle who formally called and lit up the darkened room with the meretricious glow of her curls hinted that it was a happy release. A Bed of Roses These are still to be had, but many modern ones are dyed with mineral dyes, and their bloom is meretricious. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. There were monks in most of the pictures, monks combating or, alas! overborne by one or another of that meretricious trinity which ever conspires against godly living. Ewing\\'s Lady In these the expression and idea are meretricious. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Woman's charms are to-day dwarfed because men are dazzled and misled by the meretricious paraphernalia which clothe woman; the true charms have to struggle for life. The Intelligence of Woman She saw nothing now but tawdry stationer's shops, meretricious jewellery and, worse still, the sickening plenty of its monster stores of clothing and food. A Bed of Roses Women of meretricious life were distinguished by the way they wore their hair cut and combed over their brows, just like modern fringes. Women of Early Christianity Livia and Agrippina the Elder were exceptions; but the rule was, and has been in all history, that the activity of women in State affairs was accompanied by an abundance of meretricious amatory intrigues. Roman Women The fault is in the kind itself, which belongs to a lower style than the living strains of Isaiah, and borders too closely upon the meretricious to suit the lofty theme. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Somewhere among those trees beyond the White Tower, trees that shared with everything else in Saloniki an appearance of shabby and meretricious glamour, like a tarnished and neglected throne, was Evanthia Solaris. Command It follows that any sharp verbal image applied to a minor character will help the story, though it is within limits meretricious. The Technique of Fiction Writing They were like a good many of us, useful, shop-soiled articles with plenty of the meretricious conventional sexuality which passes for passion when stimulated. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The girl is a weaker vessel, pliant, submissive to the virago's sexual energy, selected from the class of meretricious ing�nues. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion It develops a taste for the meretricious and sentimental. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance He was tired of the shabby and meretricious byways he had frequented, in moderation, for so long. Command Little space is available, and the writer may be driven to the use of somewhat meretricious figures. The Technique of Fiction Writing He had been raised to thirty-five dollars and then fifty, but it was a terrific grind of exaggerated and to him thoroughly meretricious art. The "Genius" A small full-length portrait of this great beauty of George IV.'s court, painted by Lawrence in his elegant but meretricious manner, hangs in the first-floor room of the old bank. Old and New London Volume I Straight before me, the metropolis, like a devouring monster, exhibited its equivocal and meretricious beauties, its extensive manufactories, its aspiring churches and towers, and other innumerable edifices. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew There is nothing Tennysonian about these men, nothing Kiplingesque; their art is neither meretricious nor conceited; but it reminds one oddly of perpendicular architecture. Pot-Boilers Truth needs no extraneous aids to commend it; or, as Cowper says,— “No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile, From ostentation as from weakness free, Majestic in its own simplicity.” Talkers With Illustrations She fought against it from an instinctive feeling that it was meretricious. Coquette And, if any persons under these legal incapacities come together, it is a meretricious, and not a matrimonial, union. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First Her face was downcast, and then as we converged she looked up at me, not with the meretricious smile of her class but with a steadfast, friendly look. The Passionate Friends She had been the dupe of her own folly, by her own romantic bent and the magnetism of the man blinded to the essentially meretricious spirit clothed in the flesh of his engaging person. Nobody The meretricious stanzas of Brady and Tate are inanity itself in comparison. Leading Articles on Various Subjects False liberty was already strewing their path with its meretricious allurements. Pius IX. And His Time He would none of those follies; he turned away from it not to allow himself to be moved by the effect, quite a meretricious one, of the baby in the young mother's arms. The Marriage of Elinor In the chapel somebody was playing the organ, which may have been a meretricious effect, but it pleased Nina, and that was all I cared about. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate As deleterious is the sway of questionable or immoral pieces when decked out in the meretricious garb of fancy, or aided by the transient attractions of beauty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Spontaneous coarseness is made revolting by meretricious artifice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 With all their adhesion to forms and ceremonies, they are simple and unaffected in their manners, and have a natural repugnance to whatever is meretricious. The Land of Thor Under the Antonines, the decay of the art was still more manifest, displaying a want of simplicity, and an attention in trivial and meretricious accessories. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life She has never been so nearly a great actress, this meretricious little dancer and comedian, as in this moment when she forgets her art. The Dop Doctor The head of the last of the prophets was the reward of thy meretricious feet. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm There is a species of contempt among them for the meretricious and showy; they believe in the solid. The Toilers of the Field A man in the prime of life—a perfect embodiment of symmetry and strength—he wore no attempt at gew-gaws or meretricious adornment. The Sign of the Spider Stripping the plumage from my head, and relieving my body of its meretricious adornment, I plunged into the bath prepared for me, and came out, an entirely different looking individual. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography The natural man takes refuge from these people's drab perversions of the outrageous reality, in the sham wonders of meretricious romances which are not real at all. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Upon these splendidly monotonous fine ladies flashes the vision of "Anonyma," with her meretricious beauty, and her daring toilettes. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Miss Bouverie opened it herself with the inevitably thankless pianoforte solo, in this case gratuitously meretricious into the bargain, albeit the arbitrary choice of no less a judge than Mrs. Clarkson. Stingaree Never has the frippery of a court been shrivelled by such fierce and consuming light, glaring like a fiery sun on its meretricious splendours. The Story of Paris The realism of the Stuart stump picture was never so atrocious as this baleful invention, which was as meretricious as a waxwork show. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework He never allowed himself to be enticed away from his own profession by the meretricious allurements of general politics. The Bertrams The sickliness of the voice, its falling intonations and its strange indelicacy, combined with a die-away softness and meretricious refinement, made the Father's flesh creep. Tongues of Conscience That a subject is dull, however unfortunately it may operate for the impression which he seeks to produce, must at least acquit him of seeking any aid to that impression from alien and meretricious attractions. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 To him there was little merit in the magazine now, outside of seeing it rolled up firmly and allowing the meretricious tool to conjure plausible scenarios of itself being used as a weapon. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais It is so absurd for the old man to have left instructions for all this meretricious romance to surround his end. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled In painting, he contented himself with a negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The following is one of the specious appeals which this meretricious concern sent to the ailing women of America: Mrs. M. receives more mail than any other woman in the state. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Here, the very bed was pointed out to me in which the gallant old sailor died; a plain, old-fashioned piece of furniture, without any gilding or meretricious adornment, and honest and substantial like himself. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant Indeed, the argument on that side of the question is, when divested of all that is immaterial, meretricious, and extravagant, reduced almost entirely to that single position. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Your argument, with a meretricious air of subtlety, is facile and superficial. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) The vaulting itself also being panelled, to resemble elaborate stone fretwork, rather detracts from the general beauty of the building, being but a meretricious kind of ornamentation, and quite unworthy the building. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta "It is so beautiful that I'm dreadfully afraid it is meretricious." A Venetian June She owed nothing to artifice or meretricious attraction. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Her great effort to keep herself young had led to a meretricious childishness. A Little Girl in Old Quebec Your argument," said he, "with a meretricious air of subtlety, is facile and superficial. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) If the nineteenth century has made great advances in the industries, science, and thought, it has also introduced a taste for meretricious imitation in every department of manufacture and art. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta Mr. O'Brien states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 I knew the wonderfully gorgeous spectacle these two young people were going to see at the play that night, with its lights, its music, its splendidly meretricious Orientalism. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic To all sensible people all this is an indication, not of true or sober friendship, but of a meretricious one, 179that embraces you more warmly than there is any occasion for. Plutarch's Morals He neither deals in highly-coloured and meretricious scenes à la Sue and Dumas; nor supports, with the diabolical talent and ingenuity of a Sand, the most subversive and anti-social doctrines. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 It was a platinum fob chain, simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day It is in better taste, more solid, and less meretricious in its ornaments, than any I know of. Olla Podrida Its author set no store by it at all compared with his more pretentious and meretricious work; yet it was the one poem in the whole mass. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Despite her sincerity, she is affected, and her arguments are often weakened by meretricious forms of expression. Mary Wollstonecraft Besides the meretricious effect generally produced, the paste which holds the label to the back of the book perishes in time, and the label drops off. The Book-Hunter at Home Art in all its forms had become florid, if not meretricious, and Drevet was a representative of his age. The Best Portraits in Engraving Surely you had imagination enough to feel the significance of the line without this meretricious trick to aid you. My Contemporaries In Fiction He never loaded his sentences with meretricious finery, or high-sounding, supernumerary words. Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis Her dress expresses just what she is,—all false, all artificial, all meretricious and unnatural; no part or portion of her from which it might be inferred what her Creator originally designed her to be. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 There was nothing either meretricious or sinister in the aspect of that favored resort, the Cockpit, as the Decade Club was familiarly called by its friends—and enemies. The Mark Of Cain The theory is of German origin; but it was presented to the English public by De Quincey, who adorned it with all the persuasiveness of his meretricious genius. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Let all histories, divine, human, and profane, be consulted; never will it be found that these objects of vanity were ever thus brought into public by the most meretricious of the sex. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 It was a platinum fob chain, simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do. Short Stories of Various Types Even the meretricious adornments of the churches of Genoa afford new evidence of the way in which the heart of a people has lavished itself upon belief; and if belief, why, then, hope. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 It is when these standard theories are sought to be applied to the later situation, which has outgrown the conditions of handicraft, that they appear nugatory or meretricious. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation The victim of a repressive, growth-arresting type of education, having few if any interests in life, not infrequently takes to the meretricious excitements of sensuality in order to relieve the intolerable monotony of his days. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Thus Virgil transformed by his magical power the chaste Dido into a distracted lover; and Homer the meretricious Penelope into a moaning matron. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 You felt that here sat one who had seen the world and gave things their proper proportions, who had learned how meretricious was orthodoxy, and which bars could really be recommended. The Lunatic at Large No roughness disfigures, no sensualism blights, no straining for effect chills, no meretricious ornament destroys them. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. There is a meretricious air over both; and there is apparent a popular inclination to condone rather than to take pride in these faits accomplis. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation The line of small plane trees, which gave Laventie the meretricious semblance of a garden city, was standing yet. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry It is my faith and hope that this annual volume of mine may do something toward disengaging the honest good from the meretricious mass of writing with which it is mingled. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story The illustration of the �liul� faithfully pictured by the artist reproduces a specimen that retains the original simplicity of the instrument before the meretricious taste of modern times tricked it out with silks and feathers. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula What a feeling of earnestness and sincerity would it not lend to services now often marred by the shallowness or meretricious glitter of their musical portions? Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. But the President's recourse to meretricious methods of obtaining beauty of tint has ruined the majority of his works, rendering their glories fleeting as photographs. Art in England Notes and Studies It was good to escape from the gay, meretricious gardens to the graveyard of Alloway Auld Kirk, where Tam o' Shanter's witches danced, and where Burns's father lies buried. The Heather-Moon Unlike his neighbor, Grieg, he is never mincing and meretricious. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Despite her firm chin, Carmela De Sylva did not contemn the meretricious aid of dress. The Stowaway Girl But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard. The Way of Ambition There is no pomp of words; there is an entire lack of even the attempt at meretricious adornment; there is not the slightest appearance of effort to impress the reader. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters She would gaze dreamily at Arthur's Seat, because Mrs. James had just unfolded a meretricious legend to the effect that King Arthur used to sit there and watch his troops. The Heather-Moon But the moment a meretricious and platitudinous ethical purpose began to be read into him—how he protested against it!—he was straightway adopted into our flabby culture. A Book of Prefaces I have done with the cold-hearted, treacherous, meretricious women of the town. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Education and extensive reading have preserved them from faults of gaudiness and meretricious ornament. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I am pleased to meet you in this meretricious haunt of gaiety. Foe-Farrell Year by year he was bringing his audiences nearer to himself, and year by year he was winning new converts from the love of the meretricious and flashy to that of the noble and pure. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. He was a painter of ability, but perhaps his greatest influence was as a teacher and an instructor in what was good art as distinguished from what was false and meretricious. A Text-Book of the History of Painting The cascade of the Trocad�ro has nothing meretricious about it. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Shimmering and saucy and debonair as a polo pony, she had seemed a departure from type, something above the meretricious termagants round whom he so often had to weave his accusatory webs of evidence. Never-Fail Blake I am afraid that he believes in "vulgar and meretricious distinctions" of all sorts, and that he hasn't an atom of "magnanimous democracy" in him. A Chance Acquaintance But—the girl hoped she was not ill-natured—she looked meretricious. The Second Latchkey Alas! a meretricious age scorns and neglects the true, because it is always simple in its sublimity, and, striving to banish God from His own creation, would also banish nature and joy from the heart! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 "Is the gold lace, then, so very meretricious?" Hilda A Story of Calcutta But his time would come, he repeated drunkenly, as he watched with his haggard hound's eyes the meretricious and tragic merriment of the revelers about him—his time would come! Never-Fail Blake Even his colouring so admired in general, has something florid and meretricious to my eye and taste. The Diary of an Ennuyée Without any of the meretricious arts of the personality-monger, he has impressed his personality on the troops in a most memorable way. Sir John French An Authentic Biography The world seemed planted with the beautiful little trees, the almost meretricious, carefully nurtured, and pampered belles of their tribe. Bella Donna A Novel Her chaste and noble style, untortured by meretricious ornament, excited the deepest admiration. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag Whereupon he played a very trivial and commonplace French air, which he disguised with all manner of meretricious flourishes, and achieved a great success. Great Violinists And Pianists Uniting the melody of the Italian with the science of the German, his conceptions had a dramatic fire and passion which were, however, free from anything appertaining to the sensational and meretricious. Great Italian and French Composers But to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him. What Timmy Did He abhorred the commonplace, and it is notably this abhorrence which gives a vivid, albeit somewhat meretricious sparkle to his personality. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Just as the lover of architecture as architecture will protest that Michael Angelo's was meretricious, however inspiring, so M. Rodin declares his sculpture unsatisfactory, however poetically impressive. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture A wave of meretricious sentiment, false yet with a curious base of naturalness, swept in upon him for a moment and tugged at his heart-strings. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton Measured by the highest standard, his style must be criticised as often spasmodic, tawdry, and meretricious. Great Italian and French Composers It offers not any meretricious attraction to the eye; it submits itself, wholly, to the understanding, and to the heart. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 I'm afraid writers are apt to use stock phrases in the same meretricious fashion. Greenwich Village It is like all your poetry—merely meretricious glitter; there is no heart in it. Mike Fletcher A Novel The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities. The Plastic Age Persiani is more generally a favorite here; she is indeed skilful both as an actress and in the management of her voice, but I find her expression meretricious, her singing mechanical. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe That he is quite independent of such meretricious aids, is rendered evident by his entire avoidance of them in some of his books, which are not on that account a whit the less piquant. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Think of the hopeful son tied for life by the meretricious arts of the refuse of mercenary and promiscuous lewdness. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) His Odes in general are of the same stamp; they are the hard-strained offspring of a meagre, meretricious fancy. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution The interior is dark and solemn, with much less gilding and meretricious ornament than is usual in Roman churches. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Luis de Leon was of opinion that those who violate poetry, using it for purposes of a meretricious kind, deserved punishment as public corrupters of two most sacred things: poetry and morals. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment Here, in the clear, pure splendour of the sunlit air, the place where he had been last night loomed up in his consciousness as something meretricious and unwholesome. Austin and His Friends Too much of this sort of thing becomes meretricious; a man is never the master of his subject, when he suffers himself to be carried away by it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 The home circle is select and chaste—the promiscuous intermingling with the world meretricious and contaminating. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Standing in a buggy at street-corners, jauntily urging a crowd to buy the magic grease-eradicator, toothache remedy, meretricious jewelry, what not! first playing a fiddle and rollicking out some ribald song to fetch them. The Seeker Because he finds that the average uncritical reader not only accepts commonplace work but is apparently attracted by meretricious devices in writing, he may conclude that high literary standards are not essential to popular success. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers I have omitted no exertion to prevent him and them from sinking to that level to which the meretricious French faction his Grace at least coquets with omit no exertion to reduce both. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) In no article perhaps is caution more necessary than in the purchase of a Dressing Case, for in none are the meretricious arts of the unprincipled manufacturer more frequently displayed. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 The fact is, he was too true to the solemnity and sobriety of nature to please a public led away by gaudy display and meretricious colouring. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 In the manufacture of meretricious ware he had a plausibility amounting to genius, in the disposing of it a talent for hard bargains; and the two together had landed him in affluence. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 The room itself is beautiful in its decayed grandeur, but the furnishings and hangings are either tawdry and meretricious or avowedly modern. The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith His mind is that of iron mould that defies alike warping, meretricious polish, or demolition. Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century As for her threat of returning to her old life and its meretricious attractions, after the first shock he dismissed it from his mind. If Only etc. The most homely dress is preferable to gawdy colours and meretricious ornaments. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements "Anyhow, the beast has a certain meretricious beauty," I admitted. The Princess Passes While busy writing in his office a lady was announced, and looking up he encountered the meretricious smile of the courtesan with whom he had forgotten himself. Unleavened Bread Its architectural effects, suggesting in some degree the meretricious union between Oriental and a corrupt Grecian art, accomplished in the mediaeval midnight, have amazed the eyes of many generations. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 There was nothing meretricious about it, for as yet she owed nothing to art—brown hair, warm lips, soft blue eyes, and a complexion like the leaf of a white rose—a woman blossom. If Only etc. The rhetoricians and pedagogues of the age preferred the novelty and meretricious ornaments of the style then in vogue. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Many outrageous additions and much meretricious ornamentation, added at various epochs, were allowed to remain. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 They were rather good looking, but full of meretricious arts and impudence. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes Many of Handel's songs are truly dramatic; but the purists of "the good old school," sternly adhering to their—self-styled classic—insipidity, never condescend to a meretricious display of dramatic power. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 They made the flaring lights of the terrace of the Hôtel and Café de Paris look tawdry and meretricious. Septimus His wit, they said, was the false glitter of vain conceit, frigid, and out of season; his composition was cold and languid; wire-drawn into amplification, and fuller of meretricious finery than became a man. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The haunt of mad follies, crass crimes, Fads futile, and tastes meretricious. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 There was nothing meretricious, nothing flagrantly modern there, as in that place of books he had just left; its bloom was the bloom of time, the beauty of a world already passing away. The Divine Fire She came with all her meretricious splendour covering one of the most fiendish natures that ever wore a woman's form. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters Wordsworth, unfortunately, in protesting against the meretricious garb of mean thoughts, wished to deny verse its more splendid clothing altogether. The Art of Letters What I call really meretricious can be found yet higher on the hill; towering to the sky and dominating all the valleys. The New Jerusalem We were not on the look-out for that sort of thing, and we abandon ourselves without one meretricious gesture of welcome. Since Cézanne Before his death the critics, tiring of him sooner than the public, called Martin tricky, meretricious, mechanical. Promenades of an Impressionist They seem to be especially out of place in an epitaph, which should avoid studied effects and meretricious devices. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature What must have been the state of monasteries in which such meretricious schemes were hatched, to deceive silly people, thwart the king and stop the movements for reform? A Short History of Monks and Monasteries This sort of thing may be called tawdry, but it is not what I call meretricious. The New Jerusalem Associated words: ostensive, ostensible, exhibiting, expository. showy, a. spectacular, pageant, ostentatious, pompous; garish, gaudy, meretricious, gorgeous, flashy, bedizened, gay, conspicuous, tinsel. Putnam's Word Book Solid, simple, and severe, it combines every requisite in harmony with its solemn destination; no meretricious ornaments, no false sentiment, mar the purity of its design. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 It contains all that elegance and comfort can require, without any thing meretricious or gaudy, and is a temple worthy of the goddess to whom it is dedicated. The Idler in France But he is not meretricious; at bottom he is not by any means as superficial and insincere as he often seems. William of Germany Depend upon it, from all that is licentious and meretricious something monstrous will come forth. Tales of Old Japan Some of their ornaments are a little meretricious, but the prevalent French features of their architecture are more happy than common. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland The best excuse for the rule is that it is meant to guard the element of truth in art from meretricious pretence. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Moreover, for a second great merit, he was able, quite without meretricious appeals, to make that truth interesting. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Like a postulant at a convent, she might well have relinquished such meretricious spells of lust months ago had she not held two opinions in favor of this "open relationship" remaining such. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America It is not that from my lofty moral stand-point I look down upon meretricious aids to faulty Nature. Nancy Old pieces of plain mahogany furniture were decorated with a thin layer of highly coloured veneering, a meretricious ornamentation altogether lacking refinement. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time You will note the severe simplicity here," observed Patching, "No meretricious effects. Round the Block Under the influence of the Medici the churches of Florence were filled with pictures of the Virgin, in which the only thing aimed at was an alluring and even meretricious beauty. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts No longer pure and fair as the statue of alabaster, her beauty, like that of some painted waxen effigy, is tawdry and meretricious. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 How perfumed it is, not with any meretricious artificial scents, but with the clean and honest smell of sweet live flowers. Nancy The word one frequently finds misspelt "Buhl," and this has come to represent any similar mode of decorations on furniture, no matter how meretricious or common it may be. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time These are the sort of revolutionists who would cover up grave defects in army organisation by the meretricious expedient of winning the War. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 I stared up absently at Benjamin Constant's blue ceiling, meretricious and still adorable, expressive of the delicious decadence of Paris, and my eyes moistened because the world is so beautiful in such various ways. Sacred and Profane Love Very different, this, from the meretricious sparkle of her, "Oh yes, do show me, Mr. Page." The Bent Twig This is an excellent representation of a first-class railway carriage in India without meretricious embellishments. Modern India She enjoyed the thought of triumphing over meretricious charms: it ennobled her in her own eyes to influence such a man for good. The Custom of the Country That meretricious splendour was the only one to be met in Mrs Verloc’s visions. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale We smile at girls who deck themselves with gems, False hair and meretricious ornament, To chain the fleeting fancy of a man, But do not imitate them. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan This portion of London was in consequence commonly the gayest of all its districts, with something of the meretricious gaiety of a seaport or city of hotels. When the Sleeper Wakes Tucked under the writing-table a pair of yellow and gold Turkish slippers of a highly meretricious quality caught her eye. Ann Veronica, a modern love story Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work. Roderick Hudson There is nothing showy or meretricious about the man. The Rise of Silas Lapham If there is anything more degrading, immoral, unnatural, than another in my life, it is this meretricious contract with Arabella which has been called doing the right thing! Jude the Obscure Then the mask is taken off, meretricious ornaments are dispensed with, and consequently native qualities appear. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I I regret, sir, that you have elected to waste the day, in pursuit of various meretricious Lepidoptera.' The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking This is notably true of the wanton ease of the costume of Charles the Second, and the meretricious artificiality of that of the middle of the last century. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Then, with a thought for the supposed meretricious nature of their art, the ingenious Horace remarks that both must employ the seductions of form. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Instead of rational conversation or controversy, he gives us a brilliant but meretricious display of epigram, the mechanical nature of which is often emphasized by a curious symmetry of structure. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The opera, a tawdry, expensive and meretricious lady, who had been accustomed to high keeping, was now reduced to a very humble state. Handel Proceeding to the next order of meretricious fair, we meet with that numerous one denominated GRISETTES. Paris as It Was and as It Is Other interiors are more magnificent in architectural display, none are lovelier than this, and there is nothing to mar the general harmony, no gilding or artificial flowers, no ecclesiastical trumpery, no meretricious decoration. Holidays in Eastern France Even as the subject of taste, independently of historical diversities, sculpture presents every degree of the meretricious, the grotesque, and the beautiful,—more emphatically, because more palpably, than is observable in painting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 And Rome was now bringing to ripeness fruit sprung from the seed of Hellenism, a decadent and meretricious Hellenism, but even in its decay the greatest intellectual force of the world. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal But there is something meretricious and cheap in the use of material and subjects that lie warm against the very secret heart of nature. The Delicious Vice And along with that outflaring, a certain meretricious element introduced itself into the aspect of Trimmer's Green. The Far Horizon The meretricious character of the reliefs in its extreme west portion, erected under the Emperor Napoleon III., and restored after the Commune, is redolent of the spirit of that gaudy period. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 It is the familiar and perhaps rather meretricious effect of a circular panorama, but carried out in the most complete manner. The Doings of Raffles Haw In the law courts the same smart epigrams, the same meretricious style were required. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal "Siegfried's Funeral March" was unintelligible to him; the tawdry, meretricious Italian overtures filled him with disgust. Under the Skylights But one thing was clear to him—namely, that this frivolous and meretricious being must be human after all, since she could suffer. The Far Horizon The man did not ring true, altogether; he was mentally disorganized, disharmonious; those meretricious reasonings about justice, for example, struck me disagreeably. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Hals and Velasquez obtained the same result, without, however, resorting to such meretricious methods. Modern Painting But the mischief was done, and in point of extravagance and meretricious taste the differense is only one of degree. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The prose tale is founded upon a metrical original, and composed in the meretricious style then in fashion, while the old metrical excerpts are pure and simple. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. The great restaurants are crowded with gaily-dressed merry-makers; and altogether there is a sense of festivity in the air, without any flagrantly meretricious element in it, which I plead guilty to finding very enjoyable. America To-day, Observations and Reflections Kelly had written a comedy called False Delicacy, in which were embodied all the meretricious qualities of the sentimental school. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography In French studios there is a slang phrase which expresses the meretricious charm of this picture—c'est du chic; and the meaning of this very expressive term is ignorance affecting airs of capacity. Modern Painting She stands opposed to blatant, meretricious Folly, and seeks to draw men to herself by lofty motives and offering pure delights. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes All things are theirs: tracks, wires, streets and coal, The church's creed, The city's soul, The city's sea girt loveliness, The merciless and meretricious press. Toward the Gulf But around them sprung up a literature which sold as well and better than they did, but was openly meretricious and, fortunately, ephemeral. Tales of the Wilderness Yet the floor, with its strange conglomeration of music-hall artists, callow university men, shady horse-dealers, and raucous military infants, had an atmosphere of more than meretricious gaiety. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel All meretricious ornaments in the design were of course left out. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present No meretricious aid whatever has been called in—no trick, no illusion of the eye, nothing theatrical. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The Aeneid has none of the meretricious involutions of plot, none of the puzzling half-uttered allusions to essential facts, none of the teasing interruptions of the neoteric story book. Vergil A Biography A young man's dreams of the woman he will some day marry are apt to be meretricious, or at all events conventional. Young Lives And then there came the works of that other school which lavishes the finish of a Meissonier on the most meretricious compositions. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The writer attached no particular significance to her use of the term, but employed it as a means of stimulating a meretricious interest in her stories. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood But celebrity was assured to him before long, though he was in no haste to welcome the meretricious charmer, as her favours have to be shared with too many wire-pullers. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War We are far removed," she went on, "from the clamour of diners, that babel of voices, the smell of cooking, the meretricious music. The Double Traitor Perhaps intimate acquaintance had also tended to enable him to appreciate, with greater accuracy, the meretricious genius and artificial tastes of his copartner in The Liberal. The Life of Lord Byron They had observed that most tenor songs are of a suggestive and meretricious character. The Boss of Little Arcady But meretricious ornament was popular, and poets, historians, and orators alike scrambled to see who could most adorn his speech. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism Machination, macrocosm, magisterial, magniloquent, maladroit, malfeasance, malignity, malleable, mandate, matutinal, medieval, mephitic, mercenary, mercurial, meretricious, metamorphose, meticulous, microcosm, misanthropic, misogyny, misprision, mitigate, monitor, mortuary, mundane, mutable. The Century Vocabulary Builder Nothing is more common than to see the poetry of the east condemned as tumid, over-refined, infected with meretricious ornament and conceits, and, in short, as every way contravening the principles of good taste. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 Nay, it is with these same meretricious attractions of hers that my accusation is concerned: it was by her specious appearance that she beguiled the virtuous Dionysius, my lover, and drew him to herself. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 National Era" wrote: "'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is denounced by time-serving preachers as a meretricious work. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe They respond only to what is highly spiced and have nothing in their minds to counter balance the meretricious attractions of suggestive stories and undesirable films. Men Women and God Throughout the ‘Augustan’ era, mythology was approached as a mere treasure-house of pleasant fancies, artificial decorations, ‘motives’, whether sumptuous or meretricious. Proserpine and Midas Commercialized minds, given over to convention, denying their sentiment and idealism, or wasting them upon cheap and meretricious literature, do not make a good audience. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Though alas! even our prose writings, nay even the style of our more set discourses, strive to be in the fashion, and trick themselves out in the soiled and over-worn finery of the meretricious muse. Biographia Literaria She seeks meretricious qualities, and yours are substantial. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky Honesty and truth were stamped upon her face by a life-long practice of these homely virtues—not by meretricious arts. At Last To his personal attractions, such as they are, he has never been solicitous of contributing by the meretricious aids of dress. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4 She is honest in all her purposes, and though changeful and gay in apparel never cheap nor meretricious. Confessions of a Beachcomber "Is the gold lace then so very meretricious?" The Path of a Star Why should the real man shrink away, and let the meretricious fop and the man 'made of money' win the beautiful and the best? The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring There were certain settees and back-to-backs, certain whatnots and occasional tables, which seemed to stamp the character of the Dean's widow as meretricious. In the Wilderness The intimacy of the studio, the warmth and the colour and the meretricious luxury were gone from his life. The Fortunate Youth If these delights thy mind may move, leave, oh, leave the meretricious town, and come to the airy peaks. The British Barbarians I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.' Women in Love Lastly, do not waste money on the meretricious ornamental world which besets so many of the bowls exposed for sale. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken What I had taken for black-and-white marble was only painted stucco, and coarsely daubed at that; the details of the decoration were deplorable, and the Husainabad was just a piece of showy, meretricious tinsel. The Days Before Yesterday Already, in spite of herself, in spite of her consciousness of the melodrama and meretricious glitter of the scene, her heart was beating. The Captives That the pattern was arbitrary, theatrical, sentimental, somewhat meretricious in design, in a word insincere like its inventor, has been repeated at due intervals ever since 1868. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters But how much of the meaning of the words was lost when they were produced with all the meretricious charms of melody! &c. &c. Barchester Towers They do not fall in love with every meretricious extravagance at first sight, or mistake an old battered hypothesis for a vestal, because they are new to the ways of this old world. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners It was quite certain—there was no doubt of that, at any rate—that Griselda would see no more of Lady Hartletop's meretricious grandeur when she had been transferred to Lady Lufton's guardianship. Framley Parsonage It struck him that the Scotch prudence and economy, which practically excluded display and meretricious glitter, had reached the simplicity of the truest art and the most refined wealth. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's But how much of the meaning of the words was lost when they were produced with all the meretricious charms of melody! &c &c. Barchester Towers She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners. Barchester Towers In their hatred of meretricious ornament, and of what Cowper calls "creamy smoothness," they erred on the opposite side. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Heideck thought the while with pity on the poor subjects of the Maharajah whose slavery had to provide the means for all this meretricious luxury. The Coming Conquest of England If any persons under legal incapacities come together, it is a meretricious, and not a matrimonial union.' Armadale She was half angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners. Barchester Towers What is the trick of it, the obvious, simple, meretricious trick, which somehow, after all, let us mock as we will, Bayly could do, and we cannot? Essays in Little There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection. Study of the King James Bible And the profound mysteries of the Nile were degraded by a hundred meretricious and frivolous admixtures from the creeds of Cephisus and of Tibur. Last Days of Pompeii The whole mechanical outlook upon life, as she had known it, seemed, even in those few seconds, to become a false and meretricious thing. The Illustrious Prince Both in the class and the individual, whether male or female, an intense love of dress and meretricious external adornment is almost invariably the concomitant and outcome of parasitism. Woman and Labour The masculine mind is readily taken in by specious values; the average married man of Protestant Christendom, if he succumbs at all, succumbs to some meretricious and flamboyant creature, bent only upon fleecing him. In Defense of Women He looked round him at the room; there was an ostentatious character about the luxury, a meretricious taste in the splendor. Father Goriot And at the same time, with true lover’s anxiety, Sheldon feared that the other might somehow fail to blunder, and win the girl with purely fortuitous and successful meretricious show. Adventure Benham was still not a year and a half from the meretricious delights of Mrs. Skelmersdale, and he looked at Prothero as a marble angel might look at a swine in its sty.... The Research Magnificent He was thinking of his own self; he hankered after the meretricious glory of a showy performance. The Mirror of the Sea The books on her father’s shelves, the paintings on the walls, the music on the piano—all was just so much meretricious display. Martin Eden "Ach Gott!" she sighed by way of comment, and mused deeply for a moment before she turned her face to me, as to something forgotten and remembered, and assumed the half-hearted meretricious smile. The New Machiavelli |
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