1 The truth is that the scene had a certain tawdriness about it.
2 Hence the tawdriness which is justly alleged against much Italian literature.
3 He forgot the depressing tawdriness of his surroundings in the exhilaration of the sound.
4 The palace was a curious combination of magnificence and tawdriness .
5 Vice looks fascinating in the gloaming; the morning shows up the tawdriness and the paint.
6 His clothes were too fine, despite their tawdriness , his sword hilt too much in evidence.
7 The drop-piece was there in all its tawdriness .
8 A tawdry enchantment, or an enchanted tawdriness , spoke to him from the heart of this scene.
9 Hygiene has not passed within the Mellah's walls, but a certain amount of Western tawdriness has.
10 In the midst of all the tawdriness she was a still and sacred figure- aMadonnawith a child.
11 The other thing is the poor tawdriness that kings and bosses crave and that shallow, snobbish people admire.
12 This kind of tawdriness was something the Clintons would be involved in, she wrote, but not the Edwardses.
13 Sir Edward Fry's Commission had none of the tinsel of big names nor the tawdriness of aristocratic apathy.
14 Modest black dresses, pale faces, mournful smiles, and darkness would be far more effective than this clumsy tawdriness .
15 In its ugliness he perceived only beauty, in its tawdriness only the graces that are sweet offerings to God.
16 Behind them, the resin-moulded tawdriness of the whoring chamber lent the whole thing an air of badly staged farce.
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