They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that? |
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Two years later a meretricious curate pulled them down from the shelf and bought them. |
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Washington Post hatchet man Michael Kelly joined in this macarena of meretricious mendacity. |
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If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating. |
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Instead, it's a tedious and meretricious bore, and those are the worst kind. |
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Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable. |
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We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens. |
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Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful. |
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He believed in beauty, recognised it in women and, amid the meretricious, created his share of it. |
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However meretricious this culture of warnings might be, there have been times when real, honest to god, in your face warnings made sense. |
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The society in which we live today is a meretricious society at all levels. |
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Hathaway is suitably perky for her role, but there's no real humor here, the political edge is simply meretricious, and even the special effects stink. |
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This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular. |
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To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious. |
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Now that Laura has been revealed to be little more than a collection of notes, the debate seems silly, meretricious. |
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Or join forces with the wider public in a bid to distinguish the meretricious showboaters from the artists of real merit? |
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We must exclude from art not only meretricious works, but also those inspired by a desire for goodness, as equally, though differently, inartistic and repugnant to lovers of poetry. |
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Elected mayors are just a meretricious addition. |
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Especially in the final movement, in which he indulged in a sort of boogie-woogie routine, his approach was fundamentally meretricious. |
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It is only consistent with his distinctive grandiloquent, effusive, cavalier, self-infatuated, hornswoggling, meretricious dilettante scope and outlandishness. |
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When I lifted my eyes from the page, there was none of the meretricious argument London always offers that the sole real purpose in life is to hustle for a buck. |
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