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Sentence Examples Rather than drag out a seductive melody until it eventually becomes tawdry, the longest song on Be With is a Lilliputian four minutes. The house was nothing special, a tawdry semi-detached in a sprawling estate, with a broken front fence and an overgrown lawn. Camille is grand melodrama that rivals the theatrics of the most tawdry soap opera. Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America. I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed up in all the tawdry of their canonicals. For most visitors it was shabby and tawdry, with hotel rooms designed to be so uncomfortable that you had to go downstairs and gamble. Then I distributed the cheap and tawdry things in a convincing fashion all over the house. I know that with all the ghastly images on TV and tawdry clothing worn by most that bad messages are sent to the young mind. Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces! The first hint of Christmas is no longer the tawdry line of tinsel in the high street. They were once looked down upon as the tawdry poor relations of the fashion industry. Which is saying something, considering the sleazy, tawdry appearance she presented. So the next best strategy is to convince the electorate that all the other candidates are just as tawdry and dishonest. What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill. The Candleglow insignia in the corner doesn't help matters, but simply emphasizes how cheap and tawdry the whole thing looks. They are cheap, tawdry politicians not worthy of anything other than contempt. Adapted from an award-winning play, Closer examines the lives of four people who become enmeshed in a tawdry tale of adultery. Others think this can only be a good thing, saying the outdoor advertising industry has long been seen as tawdry and tasteless. However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock. Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals. Show More Sentences In summary, he says, yet another shabby, tawdry cover-up by the Defence Force and the Government. That, I told myself, is only the stuff you read about in cheap, tawdry romance novels. Tabloid newspapers have always printed tawdry tales of public figures' peccadilloes, but it hasn't dominated discussion in the same way. The silky relationship between art and fashion may seem charming but is often a tawdry, corrupting, even whorish affair. Now the red swaying lanterns on the low, wide bumboats come on, making some minor huckster transformation from tawdry to quaint. It may be a little tawdry, but the whole of capitalist economics is based on selfishness and greed. Looting the tawdry possessions of the African villagers was both a reprisal and a reward. A tawdry tale, it keeps its steady focus on Tammy, a monument to bad taste in makeup and vestimentary horrors. The stripper only stayed for the first three tracks but it set a tawdry, cheap tone for the rest of the gig. Fudoh is based on a manga, a Japanese comic series, and a tawdry, pulpy one at that. It would have been a simple matter to pilfer their tawdry Christmas illuminations in order to gain one-upmanship this year. We are rapidly becoming a tawdry, mean, opportunistic and expedient culture, which I suppose reflects our political leadership on both sides. We're not going to have the Government use shoddy, tawdry little tricks to drum up the notion of fear and then fail on competence. Away from its tawdry sideshows we wander, along the boardwalk that fringes the littered beach and the grey Atlantic that no one swims in. Pain, grief, imprisonment and even tawdry death have been just a few of the unsought remunerations accorded to them. Rampant fanaticism and tawdry, insolent antics only hurt the feminist cause. She's a narcissist, striving to impress her tawdry wannabe high-brow friends. From the tawdry reality of the trophy wife to the sinister threat of the smiling clown, the show is underpinned by pathos. Across the street from the town's entrance was a moderately tawdry water park, populated by screaming kids and rowdy teens. We can do so much better than this tawdry ragbag of liars, thieves and war criminals. Show More Sentences There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf. At one point everyone repairs to a tawdry nightclub where Marianne is discovered posing naked by the father who has disowned her. What was a graceful and vibrant part of the city has become tired and tawdry as the ravages of time and inattention over the last 15 years have taken their toll. Sooner or later your illicit, once-beloved object of affection will become tawdry, wearying. The decision-making process sometimes seems a tawdry chaos of public policy vacillation or error. But using donors to enrich oneself is as an old and tawdry practice that is about getting rich, not famous. Beside them, lines of impoverished street vendors squat on dirty rush mats, displaying their tawdry collections of cheap plastic keyrings and fake Rolex watches. As the week segues into Christmas, the tawdry glitter of the tinsel and plastic Christmas ornaments fails to warm us with a transcedental inner glow. Theatrical costume, tawdry play-acting, lying rhetoric, bombastic and blasphemous oaths should go. Springer jauntily replies, quickly adding that his tawdry syndicated show is probably a more accurate harbinger of the End Times. Affording the same status to the publishing of the Heartland Institute's alleged tawdry secrets would be unwise. In an era when politics has degenerated into tawdry glitz, Canada seems to have bucked the trend. So, for those reasons, just as I voted against this tawdry regulation in November, I will do so again. His look and his music are barbaric and devilish, stubborn and proud, tawdry and threatening. While I find the exterior lines of the CLS exotic and lustful, others may decry the car's styling statement as garish and tawdry. Instead they twisted their little lace hankies like a couple of rich old biddies and sniffed and whimpered about how they don't agree with such tawdry sentiment. The show has been accused of peddling the kind of tawdry sentiment that has driven the inhabitants of Detroit to distraction. Hence the tawdry details about James' alleged months-long, sexaholic affair that began while Bullock was filming The Blind Side. To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious. All has changed now and Senator Norris's hope that the area would be the Left Bank of Dublin has faded to reveal a tawdry temple to tacky consumerism. Show More Sentences This may evade privacy restrictions but is cheap and tawdry at best. Liberals read more broadly and deeply, so their intellect infuses the entire catalog, or even all of Western literature, not just a few tawdry best sellers. Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal. But even with all its tawdry details, the case raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants. So, why is it, then that are there so few movies lately that are not jaded, tawdry, humorlessly moralistic, or amorally violent? The only way to achieve this, she decides, is to live tawdrily, in a tawdry place. Others basked in a wave of optimism, this being the best scheme to come out of a tawdry saga of ill-conceived visions that has dragged on for the past quarter of a century. The media's representation of this wonderful occasion is a tawdry assault on our senses in the name of commercialism and bulimic excess. But the rescheduling of the directors' meeting for 7.30 a.m., and the trotting-out of such tawdry pabulums? The woman's passion by his side seemed suddenly tawdry and unreal, the seeking of her lips for his something horrible. There is, however, one unsung hero to this otherwise tawdry story. It was all cheap and incredibly tawdry, from the festoons of paper roses on the walls to the flash of paste jewels in make-believe crowns. In Bombay he is Chandra to Elspeth, Robert to Reverend Macfarlane, and Pretty Bobby to tawdry women around the Folkland. This tawdry period in the company's life enabled the construction of an industrial site being more than 20 000 m2 of covered laggings, installed in the heart of the village of Chambretaud. Critics frequently decry the superficiality and bad taste of media, and although they are not obliged to be somber and dull, they should not be tawdry and demeaning either. We must break down the barriers between disciplines, the tawdry trade in academic prestige and the sterile politics of establishment thinkers and their routine-bound ideas. Anyone with pride in his or her own nation, who does not want to see it subsumed into a hideous conglomerate, will reject this tawdry Constitution. With beefcake poses, transcripts of tawdry texts and graphic pictures of his private parts all over the internet, Mr Weiner's standing had similarly disappeared. When compared with corporations which devote time and skill to their appearance, these people look tawdry and flashy, and their ordinariness shows through. I've noticed, too, that many of the major retailers now ply tawdry Christmas stock alongside even tackier Halloween merchandise in September. Show More Sentences There were automatic teamakers long before even that, but they did not have the alarm function which set the Teasmade apart from mere kettles and tawdry coffee machines. Examples from Classical Literature Lofty houses, gay in tawdry colors and picturesque in their dishevelment, looked down on a crowd as varied as any on earth. He went to the Wyandotte, to Craig's tawdry, dingy sitting-room, its disorder now apparently beyond possibility of righting. There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall. The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and cheap. The tawdry fluffiness of most of our womens dress and hair seemed like flannelette beside rich satin as compared with her. Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw. Look what a tawdry and vulgar thing an embroidered slipper is on a woman's foot. Her new cerise dress has been a failure, and makes her look tawdry and wan. I wanted no plot by the time she reached her destination, a street of tawdry shops. Beside him even the venerable head of the university looked tawdry and small. Long lines of dull brick houses were only relieved by the coarse glare and tawdry brilliancy of public houses at the corner. Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime. The few ornaments were new, and not at all dusty or dingy or tawdry. The effect of this was certainly incongruous, not to say tawdry. The Recoleta is a strange cemetery, bizarre, ghoulish, tawdry. Selling your story always gives the illusion of control and power, but ultimately the touter of tawdry tales is always the loser. Now that I come to think of it, how tawdry and tumid they looked, those jellylike pictures. It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding-cake. Over it hang some fifty gold and silver lamps, which are kept always burning, and the place is otherwise scandalized by trumpery, gewgaws, and tawdry ornamentation. Find more words! 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