Word: garishness
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...ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes shone steady and intense as the crack of dawn...
...sudden explosion of indignation in press and public was sparked by a story in London's garish Sunday Pictorial, a newspaper which seldom earns such international attention. A Pictorial reporter had been given a lift in a limousine into The Hague, and had thereby "become the confidant of a man closer to the Queen than almost anyone else." According to the reporter, the man who gave him the ride told of a plot, designed with the connivance of Prince' Bernhard's 72-year-old German mother, Princess Armgard, to force Queen Juliana off the throne. "Lies about...
...garish if attractive cover conceals another issue of the Advocate. Inside come three stories, three poems, two reviews, and two line drawings, all, in the recent Advocate tradition, a little more or less than competent...
...development of a new or revamped American leadership that rejects the cynical assumption, which sometimes seems to be held by many American political leaders as well as by the leaders of the USSR, that modern Americans can be interested only in larger paychecks, faster cars, and more garish entertainment...
While I find much of his garish fantasy a little too theatrical, perhaps better suited to a New Yorker cover than a New York museum, Berger does have a good deal to say even in the atmospheric mist of his paintings. He also displays not only creative color sense but fine draughtsmanship. The economy of line and airiness of the ivory and sepia study Mother and Child are examples of the almost oriental sensitivity and skill of understatement of which he is capable...