Word: garish
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...been his idea for Philippine naval defense), calmly waiting at the rendezvous for the planes from Australia, which were too few and almost too late. It is the picture of a hero who is brilliant, courageous, a great leader of soldiers, but also a little overambitious, a little garish, a little rhetorical...
...Home Guard had not always been respectable. It rose like a garish, un-British emanation from the bomb rubble of 1940's blitz. In those days its members practiced slitting throats with cheese cutters on gloomy Sunday mornings, reached out eager hands for nonexistent tommy guns, concocted tin-can explosives in the basement and took a desperate delight in the macabre techniques of Spanish Civil War guerrillas. But by last week the Home Guard had dressed ranks and counted off: on its second birthday, King George VI himself, the trade-mark of British character, became the Home Guard...
...brilliance that audiences have become accustomed to in such musicals as "DuBarry," "Lady in the Dark," and "Sons o' Fun." The settings by Harry Horner, especially in the dream scenes, are far below his best work in "Lady in the Dark," while Irene Sharaff's costumes border on the garish. The story itself is unable to hold the show together and the net result is a mixture of good little bits scattered through an evening of mediocre entertainment. Particularly fine is the end of the show when Eddie Cantor steps out in blackface to render such old favorites...
Santa Fe's stucco buildings were hung with banners and streamers, decorated with huge, garish masks. The streets were noisy with drunken yells all through the night and far into the morning. New Mexico's City of the Holy Faith was busy last week celebrating La Fiesta, and in no mood to mourn...
Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...