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“The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle.”
“With all due respect to Toole and Southern, such political poshlost could give a new meaning to the titles of a Confederacy of Dunces and The Magic Christian.”
“By basing his humor upon public interaction with unknowing victims, it is reality humor, made more powerful by the irony that these idiots allow his poshlost behavior. by”
“There is another all-embracing term for this sort of thing, but again it is Russian: poshlost '— "vulgarity, tawdriness, triteness, banality, [Nabokov's] posh-lust" are not quite adequate translations.”
“Pure poshlost" is what Mr. Remnick called the Tea Room-a complex Russian word best translated to mean false, tacky and pretentious all at the same time.”
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 445 more...
sionnach Poshlost is the Russian version of banality, with a characteristic national flavoring of metaphysics and high morality, and a peculiar conjunction of the sexual and the spiritual. This one word encompasses triviality, vulgarity, sexual promiscuity, and a lack of spirituality. The war against poshlost is a cultural obsession of the Russian and Soviet intelligentsia from the 1860s to 1960s.
Dostoyevsky applied the word to the Devil; Solzhenitsyn, to Western-influenced young people.
D. S. Mirsky was an early user of the word in English in writing about Gogol; he defined it as "'self-satisfied inferiority,' moral and spiritual". Vladimir Nabokov made it more widely known in his book on Gogol, where he romanized it as "poshlust" (punningly: "posh + lust"). Poshlust, Nabokov explained, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive". Jul 28, 2008
karnage Russian for self-satisfied mediocrity. A wikipedia article on the writer Sologub says its meaning lies somewhere between banality & evil. Dec 11, 2006