- Look up
gaudy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Gaudy or
gaudie (from the Latin, "gaudium",
meaning "enjoyment" or "merry-making") is a term used to...
-
aspect and her eyes Thus mellow'd to that
tender light Which
heaven to
gaudy day denies. One
shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the...
-
aspect and her eyes; Thus
mellowed to that
tender light Which heaven to
gaudy day denies. (Lord Byron, She
walks in Beauty, 1-6) Les
sanglots longs Des...
-
aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that
tender light Which heaven to
gaudy day denies. One
shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless...
- The New York
Times delivered a
favorable review. It
called the film a "
gaudy street-carnival", and Lumet's "most accurate, most flamboyant" depiction...
- Adam
Kirsch sees
comedy as
undercut as well,
although parody remains: The
gaudy names Mr.
Pynchon gives his
characters are like pink slips,
announcing their...
- performances."
Channel 4
deemed it "fascinating, if flawed" and "by
turns gaudy,
bitter and
occasionally just
plain weird,"
adding "great
performances and...
- with a lace hat,
carrying a
speaking trumpet.
Besides being festive, the
gaudy uniform was
intended as a
mockery of Boston's elites. The "pope" was dressed...
-
tropes and "daft"
horror mechanics and
concluded by
calling the film a "big,
gaudy,
overblown altarpiece of a
horror movie." The
Exorcism of God not only achieved...
-
Guardian gave the film 4/5 stars,
describing it as "a
gaudy time-travel romp that
whisks its modern-
day heroine to a
bygone London that
probably never existed...
