“Amidst the chintz, the florals and the pastoral paintings hangs a watercolour of young boys bathing in a stream.”

“The skeletons of outsized Victorian sofas and armchairs lies dotted around the parquet floors, their chintz entirely eaten away by white ants.”

“These fabrics are cretonnes, the end-of-the-19th Century's version of unglazed chintz.”

“Earwigs are amazing, under-appreciated insects that can devouring mole crickets and eat up to fifty chinch bugs a night!”

“In 1999, sorghum planted in a field with widely scattered volunteer wheat plants was heavily damaged by chinch bugs.”

“In California and the Southwest, chinch bugs can suck the life out of zoysia and St. Augustine in summer.”

“The menu design is loud, colorful, and kind of slapped together, but goes along with the whole live-to-tape chintziness of the sitcom itself.”

“To me, this smacks of total chintziness, and lack of prioritizing.”

“Her paintings revel in the gaudy chintziness of American commercial spaces, yet through her uncertain and reverently childlike rendering she makes such scenes seem appealing.”