garish

Ragoravich’s dacha is a “garish and almost grotesque” palace clad in marble that makes Maggie think of Versailles, but in a way that makes Versailles seem dumpy.

There now seems to be a bit of snickering immaturity in the film’s garish period trappings, though the emotional acuity and empathetic consideration of even the most minor of characters still makes “Boogie Nights” remarkable.

Where once they were garish young rockers buried under mascara, now they are garish older rockers, desperately hanging onto their youth.

Their old-money neighbors find the enormous, gleaming structure to be garish.

The juxtaposition at the weekend was apt: one big, ugly bill in Washington and one big, garish wedding in Venice.