Примеры tawdry

• Spectacle, by contrast, relies on novelty; when it ceases to be cutting-edge, its effects quickly begin to appear faded and tawdry.

• Is maternal feminism merely a tawdry and retrograde diversion?

• The dignity of historical wax effigies gave way in this account to tawdry impersonations made of cheap materials.

• The magic of bourgeois life only reaches her in its most tawdry form, and without thinking she takes all the blessings that drip down from above.

• He felt that it was a nine days' wonder which would fizzle out, only to be replaced by an equally tawdry régime.

• The commission is a complete, tawdry fig leaf.

• In fact, the spectacles are uncouth, tawdry and distasteful, and make you feel disgusted and sick.

• It has been a tawdry and ham-fisted attempt to score short-term party-political advantage.