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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...
- not
funny or
dramatic enough. He wrote:
Outnumbered was at its most
meretricious. For
every exchange between adult and
child was
hijacked by a cr**** sitcommy...
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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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critics proved hostile, with César Cui
calling the
symphony "routine" and "
meretricious", both
works were
received with
extreme enthusiasm by
audiences and Tchaikovsky...
- Artistically, the
films in
question range from the
majestic to the
meretricious.
Independent financing has set
truly imaginative directors into free...
- overacting"
distracts from the poor
script and
called Woods'
acting "
meretricious",
before concluding that "Irving
Pichel has
directed the film ponderously...
- 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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Republic wrote "The film (King Rat) is
dexterously made. It is also
meretricious, imitative,
thematically muddy'.
Kauffmann went on to
praise the performances...
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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...
