“Any little absurd gewgaw or gimcrack they had they disposed in such a way as to make it attract attention most readily.”

“Matilda did very well and only for a moment let the scene slip out of the atmosphere of gimcrackery into the air of life.”

“A man who can kiss a woman's hands like that is at liberty to clear the whole house of 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.”