Bauer revisits the same location after dark for Nocturnal Gimcrackery. |
The expense, hype and setting couldn't match Nature's own spectacle at the main part of the canyon, run by the National Park Service — an immensity that makes all human enterprise seem like petty gimcrackery. |
A man who can kiss a woman's hands like that is at liberty to clear the whole house of gimcrackery. |
In the epilogue, Frédéric Back expresses his wish to see children reject the gizmos and gimcrackery of a destructive 'progress' that he sees as? an illusion. |
Matilda did very well and only for a moment let the scene slip out of the atmosphere of gimcrackery into the air of life. |