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Michael Billington wrote: "Stephen
Campbell Moore makes Irwin both
meretricious in his methods, yet
effective in his results". In 2004, he
starred as...
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emotions rather than to the mind. It is used to
describe "claptrap or
meretricious attempts to
catch po****r
favor or applause." The
longer form of the...
- Artistically, the
films in
question range from the
majestic to the
meretricious.
Independent financing has set
truly imaginative directors into free...
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critics proved hostile, with César Cui
calling the
symphony "routine" and "
meretricious", both
works were
received with
extreme enthusiasm by
audiences and Tchaikovsky...
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permissible emotion—and
standards of taste: "excessiveness" is the criterion; "
Meretricious" and "contrived" sham
pathos are the
hallmark of sentimentality, where...
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Republic wrote "The film (King Rat) is
dexterously made. It is also
meretricious, imitative,
thematically muddy'.
Kauffmann went on to
praise the performances...
- well". She cuts the
roses and puts them in vases,
where they
adorn her "
meretricious vision of what
makes for beauty" and
begin to die. The
roses in the vase...
- Clarkson's role as an
ignorant buffoon and
called the show "wearisome,
meretricious rubbish … The
series amounts to less and less as time goes on." Anita...
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describing them as "painted, tawdry". By 1835, the
earlier set of "bold
meretricious hussies" had been sent from
Windsor to join them at the more informal...
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extravagance of his
decorative style. He shared, and
perhaps distanced, the
meretricious triumphs of
Oppenord and Germain,
since he
dealt with the
Rococo in its...
