Word: rubbishing
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Kathleen Winsor became a banned author in Sheffield, England, but no prestige attached to it: the city fathers deplored Amber as utter rubbish...
...eating the way theirs do-stuffing food in their mouths with their fingers. Yet when I ate with my knife they criticized me." Furthermore, her Canadian relations never had herring for Sunday breakfast. Furthermore, Canadian girls "don't have complexions like our girls and they put too much rubbish on their faces...
...gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below the belt, appealing to our fears, and undermining our ideals-a vortex of banalities, a rubbish dump of overstatement...
Happy Birthday is sentimental rubbish. Not only does the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes convince nobody that gentlemen prefer librarians, but she has frantically tossed into the pot almost everything except good dialogue. That the pot ever boils is due to the presence and prestige of Helen Hayes...
...granted that Beatrix Potter was long since dead-a notion that Mrs. Heelis of Sawrey did her best to encourage. The few who unveiled her incognita and greeted her as a great artist were received with "the searching, expressionless stare of a little animal." Then she would shout: "Great rubbish! Absolute bosh...