gaudy

• “Bender's fiction accepts those constraints and relates decidedly familiar stories dressed up in gaudy but cheap disguises.”

  Experimental Fiction

• “You nod and smile with every paragraph, and wish the story would unroll into a novel, breaking the boundaries of the book, streaming in gaudy tapestries, out through the door and into the blue wide yonder - to the place where awards are distributed and happy critics fall over themselves to lavish praise (this story did not win any awards, by the way) Why am I so excited about this?”

  "Constellations", ed. by Peter Crowther

• “The odds were amazingly against me finding a hat I would ever wear again, because as you may recall, these retailers specialize in beachwear that makes the word gaudy hang its head in shame.”

  Branding a country: How the Bahamiam logo sinks Margaritaville’s pirate ship « The Retort

• “There is nothing worse than seeing art that wallows in gaudy baubles.”

  Paragraphs On Conceptual Writing : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “The riotous colors and designs celebrate different fiestas ... white pompoms and streamers for the church, and for birthdays, big earthenware jars dressed in gaudy colors.”

  The Colored Paper Affair

• “I understood that the god of the Gentiles was no better than a toy, to be dressed up in gaudy stuffs and carried in processions.”

  The Promised Land

• “These damsels, in gaudy garments of emerald green, bright rose, and flaming yellow, were squatting outside their cabins or lounging unveiled about the thresholds of two or three dismal dens of cafés in the market-place.”

  A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

• “The Praetorian praefect, the praefect of Rome, the quaestor, the master of the offices, with the public and patrimonial treasurers, * whose functions are painted in gaudy colors by the rhetoric of Cassiodorus, still continued to act as the ministers of state.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “A McMansion generally refers to a gaudy, oversize, spanking-new dwelling situated on a piece of land that can barely contain its size, the unfortunate result being that most McMansions stand cheek-to-jowl with their next door neighbors.”

  Simon & Schuster: What Women Want

• “This apparently very rich middle-aged man appears out of nowhere, buys and renovates a local mansion, and fills it with fancy pieces of furniture and a lot of pop art, which Updike describes as gaudy travesties of the ordinary — giant pay telephones in limp canvas, American flags duplicated in impasto, ... relentless enlargements of our comic strips and advertising insignia, our movie stars and bottle caps, our candies and newspapers and traffic signs.”

  Widcraft

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