Word: garishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wants the youth of America and the world sashaying around in garish sequined costumes, hair dripping with pomade, body shot full of female hormones to prevent voice change, mono-gloved, well, then I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is a good example." JOHN ROBERTS, Supreme Court nominee, in a memo he wrote as a young lawyer in the Reagan Administration advising against giving Michael Jackson a presidential award for his work in discouraging teens from drunk driving; Jackson received the award anyway...
...wants the youth of America and the world sashaying around in garish sequined costumes, hair dripping with pomade, body shot full of female hormones to prevent voice change, mono-gloved, well, then I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is in fact a good example...
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...