Word: garishes
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Tiles, some painted a garish pink, loosely hang on the outside of the building. The floors are worn, the building’s structural integrity generally sound but not perfect...
After months of this treatment, Lohan’s dyed her hair a garish blonde and lost a frightening amount of weight, falling unconscious at the gym just last week. All of a sudden, the celeb press is full of concerned affection. Gee, they wonder in lurid typefaces, do you think she might have unhealthy body image issues...
...dark, not (as with oils) from dark to light. It is hospitable to accident (Homer's seas, skies and Adirondack hills are full of chance blots and free mergings of color) but disaster-prone as well. One slip, and the veil of atmosphere turns into a mud puddle, a garish swamp. The stuff favors broad effects; nothing proclaims the amateur more clearly than niggling and overcorrection. It can be violated (Homer sometimes did his highlights by tearing strips of paper away to show white below), but it also demands an exacting precision of the hand--and an eye that...
...contest has been used for the good as well as the garish...
...beyond satiation. In this case, every joke is carried to its natural end at the time it is made, characters are ridiculed as much as humanly possible when they are first introduced, and the show itself continues long past the conclusion of the actual musical with a lengthy, garish kick-line number...