| He chides people who dwell on what he calls the mere tinselly teatrino of politics. |
| The place was so tinselly and common that, coming to it from weeks of rough travelling, it made me impatient. |
| To engage in something primal as opposed to the tinselly snares and trashy delusions of urban daily life. |
| Some clung to the scaffolding, others poked their cameras through the candlesticks on the tinselly altar set up by the Franciscans, some were even perched on the shrine of the Holy Sepulchre itself. |
