| For, whatever the Age's tawdriness and corruption, Hamlet shares that Age's unique magnificence, in considerable part a product of aesthetic greediness. |
| We all use the word carelessly, complicit with the ineradicable tinge of tawdriness that it always carries with it. |
| The first, and most desperate, theory is that sheer tawdriness may release him. |
| 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. |
| Indeed, the Gilded Age involved far more than gilt, tawdriness, and corruption. |
| In England she had borrowed the untidiness and tawdriness that degrade the English poor. |
