| Indeed, the Gilded Age involved far more than gilt, tawdriness, and corruption. |
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| We all use the word carelessly, complicit with the ineradicable tinge of tawdriness that it always carries with it. |
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| Nevertheless, Leanna Brodie in the title role gave a remarkably moving, heartfelt performance as a woman yearning for something real amid the tawdriness around her. |
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| The first, and most desperate, theory is that sheer tawdriness may release him. |
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| For, whatever the Age's tawdriness and corruption, Hamlet shares that Age's unique magnificence, in considerable part a product of aesthetic greediness. |
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| The performance, however, emphasised his tawdriness in favouring an extended summer coffee over doing his job. |
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| The tawdriness of their public-relations tour, which has them climbing a cardboard Mount Suribachi to cheering crowds, proves more corrosive than the horrors of battle. |
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| Jets rooting connects you to a long tradition of tawdriness and mediocrity occasionally lit up by hope, as well as to a certain vein of pawky eccentricity. |
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| It is a great picture of the tawdriness of Yalta, the defeated hopes of an elderly population labouring under a kleptocracy. |
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| The product tawdriness forced the CEO Tim Cook to render an apology and suggest customers to try using its rival's Maps app. |
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| The depressing tawdriness of four decades of neglect under former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's rule is all too obvious in Libya's capital Tripoli. |
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| Even with mind-boggling tawdriness and stupidity, our ex-President knows he still appears tantalizingly larger than life in a Democratic Party of political pygmies. |
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