Voorbeelden van gaudy

• It was a handsome, hand-crafted object, painted in gaudy fairground fashion with stained or etched glass in its windows and a marble-countered and ceramic-tiled interior.

• Do 'all the elements of seria' really 'pass onstage in a gaudy farewell parade' in the first finale (p. 19)?

• The casino was everything she promised, and more - garish, gaudy, noisy, manic, and with a gloriously chaotic sound environment to die for.

• It was an ornately decorated, gaudy simulacrum of the tomb.

• This book restores a sense of the man as private, nay secretive - modest, shy, retiring: and the frugal simplicity behind the gaudy gallimaufry.

• If anything, their gaudy excess parodied women's wear; the notion of sticking a few sunflowers in one's hat conjures up an image more laughable than fashionable.

• A gaudy 'get up' (to make use of an expressive common-place) is highly to be condemned, and at once stamps the wearer as a person of inferior taste.

• Devotional content is a particularly distinctive thread, even in the gaudy cloth of the film- music scene, i one that stands out readily and is thus easily studied.

• They have had plenty of miscellaneous exhortation, in eloquent speeches, in gaudy posters and from earnest canvassers.

• Nevertheless, we hope that the cease-fire agreement is not like a cheap colour television set, brilliant and gaudy in illumination but sadly out of focus.

• We do not want anything flashy or gaudy; we want something dignified and solid.

• I am thinking more on the aesthetic side of what one sees in the big signs—the bright lights, not the gaudy lights.

• The politicians who act out their chosen rôles and prefer to clothe their arguments in the bright and gaudy arguments of hyperbole, hypothesis, and exaggeration.

• Books are all wrapped up in the same cellophane casings which are vulgar and gaudy.

• We can imagine what a gaudy performance that would have been.