| 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. |
| The first, and most desperate, theory is that sheer tawdriness may release him. |
| I won in that moment an impression of the tawdriness of mere beauty which I have never gotten over. |
| Indeed, the Gilded Age involved far more than gilt, tawdriness, and corruption. |
| The first impression which one receives upon entering the inner precincts of the kraton is of tawdriness and dilapidation. |
| Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature. |
