On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens. |
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Was it her simper, or her settled indifference to ideas, or the gaudy ring she wore on her right forefinger and twisted incessantly? |
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The vista is unblemished by gaudy advertising signs, utility lines or parked vehicles. |
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They have evidently chosen their clothes with great care, for such gaudy slatternliness is not natural. |
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Slowly my father grumbled and sat down in his seat quickly as we heard the unorthodoxly heavy clicks of my grandmother's gaudy heels. |
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Bollywood fashions are no longer regarded as gaudy or unstylish, because there's top talent working behind the scenes. |
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For years, men have been bombarded with low-cut bumsters, gaudy tracksuits and blinged-up denims. |
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She was a moderately young woman with long fair hair twining around a gaudy hairpin. |
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But so gaudy a style made her look like a pampered odalisque rather than the mother of the future king. |
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She tried to maneuver him to a dumpy sofa studded with a gaudy pattern of crimson roses, but Jack stiffened his knees. |
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Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation. |
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It's gaudy, it's ostentatious, and it's exactly what one would expect from a rock star that thinks he's God. |
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We don't go for gaudy over-decorated Mary-figures in crowns, or bleeding hearts, or stuff like that. |
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The cheese-ball big-budget film is a riot of swirling gaudy colors, questionable plotting, and ham-fisted dialogue. |
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It often seems to me that Ukrainians have a distinctive immunity that protects them from the gaudy attractions of fashionable trends. |
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They have been replaced by itinerants, travelling in big American pick-ups towing huge, gaudy modern caravans. |
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A wife is showing the husband this bathing suit, and he makes a comment about it being gaudy and not liking it. |
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Is this an authentic moment of historic liberation for Europe, or just another imperial imperative dressed up in the gaudy rags of consumerism? |
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Some clowns prefer to wear bright and gaudy makeup, while others have a fondness for ludicrous masks. |
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The gem's usual glow and hum was dead, and it looked to be nothing more than a piece of old, tasteless, gaudy jewelry. |
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Her dress was often very gaudy, with bright colors, and a sense of fashion that followed too closely behind fads. |
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Who knew dated music, predictable gags, audience participation, gaudy costumes and blinding colours could be this much fun? |
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Up to eighteen inches long, these gaudy fish have large plumes and fleshy flaps on their head that mimic colourful reef growth. |
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It was a strip of gaudy landscaping in front of a strip mall in glaring bright daylight. |
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Their song is not overly musical but has a comforting, undemonstrative British garden nature, not gaudy or showy in any way. |
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There were a few people, however, who had on very gaudy, expensive clothing of bright colors. |
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He wore his guilt like a piece of gaudy jewelry, bright and flashy and probably fake. |
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My family members give me gifts of tacky, gaudy trinkets that I have no use for. |
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Even when they are monumental in size, gaudy and glittering, they are also duplicable and, most importantly, they are mutable. |
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Somewhere between the gaudy lowlands of kitsch and the earnest highlands of world music sits the mythic, mixed-up realm of exotica. |
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The sets were shoddy, the costumes gaudy and sometimes absurd, and the music inappropriate. |
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One Baptist minister, Stuart Davison, from Merseyside, for instance, is renowned for his collection of gaudy waistcoats and jazzy ties. |
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Well, me and the wife went to Ocean Finance to buy some new furniture to replace this gaudy tat. |
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During the Christmas festival each one is adorned with decorations, but not gaudy lights and tinsel. |
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In startling shades of screaming red and eye-popping orange, they are ravishingly gaudy. |
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The first that comes to mind is 1960, when the last round began with as gaudy a leader board as you could wish for. |
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Lola herself has doffed her shabby robe and is wearing a gaudy dress patterned with large flowers. |
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There is a lightsomeness about its gaudy exterior that seems to defy gravity. |
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Autumn is a season for spectacle, made all the more gaudy by the imminent approach of winter. |
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She found herself seated next to a stout lady dressed in a magnolious costume of gaudy satin. |
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They are gaudy diurnal insects with scaled wings that are large in proportion to body. |
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In her room Enid has a backlit faux stained-glass panorama of waterfalls and woods, gaudy, like something in a bad restaurant. |
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They are very strong but not gaudy, colours like terracotta, green and yellow. |
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In Scotland, the seaside towns tarted up their piers and decked out their main streets good and gaudy. |
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During the tour, the press vilified the rockers as bad-mouthed, loud, gaudy and unkempt. |
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His focus fell fully on the armed man carelessly waving his sword around-a thin blade with a gaudy basket hilt. |
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Prices invariably start at Rs.500 and that is probably for a gaudy or a beady look on a slipper. |
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It wouldn't surprise me to find that he's wearing mismatched, gaudy socks. |
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The wallpaper around them was a textured red with speckles of gold, but a gaudy look was avoided with the neutral silk, cream bedspreads, pillowcases and curtains. |
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At night it is gaudy with Japanese lanterns and Mexican music. |
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I pulled a pair of gaudy, heart-shaped glasses off the rack. |
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There were days when one was wearing heavy, gaudy clothing, which was invariably a pain to be endured considering the gathering one would be amongst. |
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Take, for example, the non-conformist Enid, who delights in wearing retro tortoiseshell specs, thrift-store garb and gaudy lipstick and despises all around her. |
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Instead of gondolas, there are magenta-coloured barges which transport tourists along a two-mile stretch of river, past the native cypresses and gaudy glass-fronted hotels. |
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These street riders could be easily distinguished by their gaudy Western-style umbrellas, as contrasted to the slender parasols which female students often carried. |
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Abbey looked around the room full of rich men and women, to the gaudy wallpaper, to the exquisite chandelier and to the dining tables with candles lit in the middle. |
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His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous. |
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This movie is loud, gaudy, underacted, and completely without a soul. |
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And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away. |
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Her paintings revel in the gaudy chintziness of American commercial spaces, yet through her uncertain and reverently childlike rendering she makes such scenes seem appealing. |
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I loved the atmosphere, the sheer tacky, gaudy, exuberance of it all. |
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Critics say it's tacky, noisy, and stuck in a time warp, those of us who love it agree with all that, that's what it's all about, being big, brash, gaudy and over the top. |
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I mean how could people possibly think I'm so va-va-voom, hen, when I've got PMS pimples, a chubby tummy and an undying desire to wear gaudy vintage dresses? |
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There is a purity that extends from north Orlando to this gathering of gaudy dilettantes. |
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In this narrative, the disgraced former President with his gaudy taste for golden toilets and exotic zoos, is cast as the Joker. |
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She was a novelty item, presented in gaudy wrapping paper by a desperate John McCain to a jaded mainstream media. |
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Its frontage gleams with neon, and above the gaudy porch is a statue of a four-horsed laurel-wreathed charioteer, his spear raised phallically into the dull London sky. |
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Directly across the car from me, next to an old woman with a gaudy cabbage rose print babushka over thinning white hair, is a young man I cannot take my eyes off of for long. |
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Lapidus became notorious in the 1950s, an era that liked its modernism discreet, for flamboyant hotel designs that were often called gaudy, garish, splashy and colossal. |
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The massive and gaudy tail feathers of the Peacock are the tetrices or coverts, the retrices are brown and relatively short and are used to support the fan. |
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Rococo soon fell out of favor, being seen by many as a gaudy and superficial movement emphasizing aesthetics over meaning. |
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It's a herbaceous plant, a woodlander from North America, and it proves berries don't necessarily have to be gaudy to earn their keep. |
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A large gaudy, flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume. |
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Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde. |
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I had a delightful trip to New Covent Garden market in London last week and saw trays of chrysanthemums, gaudy cyclamens and even berries, such as solanum. |
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A dozen or more of these gaudy kahilis were upheld by pallbearers. |
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