- re****tion", he argues,
since they
continue to
visit "dissolute places" for "
meretricious embracements (where sin is
turned into art)", a
custom "no more punished...
-
critics proved hostile, with César Cui
calling the
symphony "routine" and "
meretricious", both
works were
received with
extreme enthusiasm by
audiences and Tchaikovsky...
- 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...
- as an
artist quietly and very well. He has
disdained superficial or
meretricious effects. He has been his own most
unsparing critic." In 2015 WorldCat...
-
Michael Billington wrote: "Stephen
Campbell Moore makes Irwin both
meretricious in his methods, yet
effective in his results". In 2004, he
starred as...
-
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...
-
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...
- storyline.
Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post
described the film as "
meretricious fakery" and
called it "so
unrelenting in its mani****tive sentimentality...
-
programmatical in any respect, and
Kennedy calls attempts to give the work "a
meretricious programme ... a poor
compliment to its
musical vitality and self-sufficiency"...
