| We all use the word carelessly, complicit with the ineradicable tinge of tawdriness that it always carries with it. |
| The first impression which one receives upon entering the inner precincts of the kraton is of tawdriness and dilapidation. |
| 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. |
| For, whatever the Age's tawdriness and corruption, Hamlet shares that Age's unique magnificence, in considerable part a product of aesthetic greediness. |
| Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature. |
| The first, and most desperate, theory is that sheer tawdriness may release him. |
