vulgarized

Example Sentences

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Things are put a good deal more strongly in the film, although they have not vulgarized but only underscored James’ subtext.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Ninotchka’s personhood is diminished, even as the composer’s work is vulgarized.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2016

And, in a vulgarized form Rand would almost certainly reject, they have spread even further since her death in 1982.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2014

On it he croons in a talky flow about a manuscript — or is it a love letter? this song? his career? — that he fears will be vulgarized by commercial forces.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2011

The two plays are worth reading together for the sake of seeing how easily a pure and perfect creation of genius can be vulgarized in language and spirit almost beyond the possibility of recognition.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various