tawdriness
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“The kind of slight unease that I think it provokes, that sense of tawdriness, I think that they really fit the book, ultimately,” Szalay said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2020
His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2018
From this period dates the introduction of virtuoso performances with their glittering tawdriness, without substance and without music, and of the frightful eccentricities in art, accompanied by immeasurable vanity and self-conceit,—the age of "finger-heroes."
From Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances by Mary P. Nichols
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