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It still looks the same - a garishly coloured egg with a small digital screen and buttons - but the actual toy has much more functionality.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2024

Seattle Rep’s production, directed by Malika Oyetimein, has a tendency to draw its scenes as garishly as Matthew Webb’s classroom lighting design, with obvious punchlines delivered obviously.

From Seattle Times Mar. 22, 2022

As for the cast, Audley is a perfect everyman, his old-fashioned appearance mirroring the banality and decay that surrounds him — and a strong contrast to Bella’s garishly colorful quirks.

From Washington Post Feb. 14, 2022

YoungSmith said that George W. "spent his entire life, including his presidency, careening between attempts to live up to H.W.'s impossible expectations and efforts to garishly repudiate them."

From Salon Jun. 28, 2021

We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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