Formerly we used to canonise our great men; nowadays we vulgarise them.
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He loved his familiar surroundings, for nothing can vulgarise Oxford.
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But these manifold household labours did not vulgarise Hilda's character.
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But that is to vulgarise the question.
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Why amusing to miscall, exaggerate, and vulgarise?
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There is a flavour of sauer kraut about that unhappy tongue that would vulgarise a Queen if she talked it.
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From such an ignoble spectacle as that of poor Mrs. Lincoln,- aspectacleto vulgarise a whole nation,-aristocraciesundoubtedly preserve us.
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Money won't vulgarise Jean as it does so many people, but it may turn her into a very burdened, anxious pilgrim.
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You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness-thesense of elemental grandeur.
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Paula was still charming, but it must be confessed a trifle vulgarised.
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Blondin vulgarised Niagara; Jonathan is going to turn it into a colossal mill-sewer.
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It was the hour vulgarised in drawing-room ballads as the 'gloaming.'
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The thought is too solemn to be vulgarised by pulpit rhetoric.
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How she vulgarises that pretty girl, her cousin, by mere contrast!
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All the poetry of Italy has been dried up, and the whole country vulgarised.
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He viewed with desperation the speed with which Britain was becoming vulgarised and uglified.