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.
